Example sentences of "has been seen " in BNC.
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| 1 | Babel 's bad times could be turned into art — an art which has been seen to release him , as it were , from his subject , and which has also been seen to hesitate . |
| 2 | As has been seen , partially as a result of Cardinal Cullen 's nineteenth-century reforms , the church became more organized and developed in its numbers of clergy and religious . |
| 3 | What has been seen as an aspect of the Roman catholic intellectual opposition to divorce in Chapter 5 can also be recognized as a feature of the defence of catholic schools too : the opposition contains an interpretation of the moral nature of contemporary society and of what happens to catholics who are not to some degree protected from it . |
| 4 | In effect , the insider who reveals the structural formations of a system of power inverts that power and the revelation creates a situation where elements of ‘ anti-structure ’ ( Turner 1969 , 1974 ) now present a version of how things might be constituted ; and what has been seen as solid reality begins to be identified as only one social possibility . |
| 5 | To lead in all the polls as the favoured candidate for the Tory succession , to persuade your own party that you offer a distinctive viewpoint without being in any way overtly disloyal , to convince even the cynics of the Press that you pose a realistic alternative to the present leadership — no phenomenon like it has been seen in British politics for 50 years . |
| 6 | Nothing much has been seen of the civilian population since we entered the village on the 6th June . |
| 7 | Machinery was much scarcer than land , as has been seen . |
| 8 | The chief symptom of continuing instability was the ‘ scissors crisis ’ which began to affect Smolensk and all other gubernii in 1922 , as has been seen , and reached a climax in 1923 when the scissors opened too widely in favour of manufactured goods . |
| 9 | Dzerzhinsky discovered 2,583 unused railway-trucks there ( some of them sent on from the Volga and dumped , as has been seen ) . |
| 10 | The largest army in the world was recruited mainly from the peasantry , and , as has been seen in the provinces , the party still relied heavily in 1922 on ex-army men to act as leaven among the ‘ dark people ’ . |
| 11 | As has been seen , the progress of Thatcherism had been erratic , even hesitant , since 1979 , though the Falklands victory had given the record of the past four years a spurious consistency . |
| 12 | During the Falklands War , as has been seen , American support , including missiles , materially assisted towards a British victory . |
| 13 | On Europe , as has been seen , Labour was by 1989 much more committed to developments within the Community . |
| 14 | As they became progressively more heavily taxed , that responsibility , instead of going to companies , went to government and government has been seen to do it very badly . |
| 15 | But this goes against all trade union traditions : invoking laws and the courts has been seen as an infringement of worker 's freedom of action and power of collective bargaining . |
| 16 | Inhibition has been seen as the insoluble problem of British movies : it could be represented as the source of their great potential . |
| 17 | The Bundesbank has been seen until now as Europe 's guardian against rapid price increases . |
| 18 | She has been seen several times over the years . |
| 19 | An attending female has been seen to bite through the umbilical cord of a captive dusky dolphin during the birth of her young , but usually the mother does this herself . |
| 20 | All the experiments in which the neutrino has been seen used solid-state detectors — crystals of silicon and lithium or of germanium — to measure the electron-energy spectrum . |
| 21 | Non-availability is an idea deeply embedded in the Christian tradition of celibacy ; though for too long now it has been seen as renunciation by men of sinful life , rather than as a radical statement by women . |
| 22 | Mickey Duff , Wharton 's manager , said : ‘ Wharton is the most exciting fighter that has been seen in Yorkshire and Castro is a good fighter . |
| 23 | Nothing like it has been seen since — well , since the Nanking Cargo was unloaded at Christie 's in April 1986 . |
| 24 | As has been seen , while the Napier Commission favoured the enlargement of the crofts to improve their economic viability , the legislation passed only a few years later tended instead to perpetuate them in their existing form . |
| 25 | As has been seen , the most diligent organiser of plant transport from the West was Peter Collinson and much relevant correspondence will be found in William Darlington 's The memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall ( 1849 ) where the author considered sea captains of such importance as to merit a special index . |
| 26 | As has been seen above ( Chapter 1 ) , the same measure will call for controls to prevent eutrophication in coastal water and Britain has been fighting the battle-of-the-maps at the Paris Commission . |
| 27 | In carrying the banner for the ‘ uniqueness of the individual ’ , Brian Way has been seen as an articulate and effective militant against the authoritarian stance of traditional education . |
| 28 | As soon as it is over and both males are exhausted they have a brief opportunity during which they can launch an attack and win the harem from both of them , and this has been seen to happen . |
| 29 | On the other hand , many people are quite prepared to concede that some animal or group of animals has been seen in the loch . |
| 30 | It is a fact that the written essay — usually of 400 to 500 words long — has dominated the English language and literature curriculum for many years because it has been seen as the main vehicle for the transmission of knowledge in written examinations . |