Example sentences of "often seen in " in BNC.

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1 Dai Qing was often seen in Tiananmen Square talking to student demonstrators , and being interviewed by foreign journalists .
2 Striped dolphins and Dall 's porpoise are most often seen in groups of 530 and 2–20 , respectively , but both have also been observed in numbers of around 300 .
3 Even expensive and exotic breeds — such as the loose-skinned Japanese shar peis which sell for $1,000 — are often seen in shelters .
4 Greek dress became more common for men after Hadrian 's enthusiastic adoption of Greek fashions , and is often seen in early Christian art .
5 The relations between central and local government are too often seen in an oversimplified light .
6 The aggressive , destructive behaviour that is often seen in hyperkinetics usually develops later than the other symptoms , and may be largely a response to feelings of frustration that stem from the other symptoms .
7 Above : The Silver Scat , Selenotoca multifasciata is not often seen in shops .
8 Another good piece of machinery , often seen in studios . ’
9 At many Siva temples and Cobra shrines , women are often seen in prayer or receiving the blessings of the attending priest .
10 Even when it is , it is most often seen in terms of the size of individual instalment payments , and the length of the repayment period .
11 The weather was fine and they were enjoying their walk when they came across the neglected remains of a large house which they had often seen in the distance from the pump-house .
12 It is unfortunate , however , that the ‘ crisis ’ is so often seen in negative terms .
13 The fragrant large blush-tinted but rather ragged double R.a. maxima is the emblematic ‘ Jacobite Rose ’ often seen in Scottish gardens .
14 It is often seen in nature , but becomes much more obvious when natural hazards are removed in captive and human populations .
15 The collection was formed by the late shopping-centre magnate Sir Harold ( later Lord ) Samuel who , on the advice of dealer Edward Speelman , amassed mainly small , highly finished cabinet pictures on copper or panel that were very much to the taste of eighteenth-century collectors but are not often seen in American collections : notably , five town-views by Jan van der Heyden ; a ‘ Winter Landscape with Skaters ’ by Adriaen van de Velde , and a seven-by-nine inch masterpiece by Jan Steen of a couple sleeping at a table beneath an arbour .
16 It is turned in this action towards the meagre amount of light , light which has a density and texture not often seen in real life , created by filling the air with smoke and piercing it with tungsten light .
17 Earlier jazz was also often seen in terms of a ‘ defence of individualism ’ ( spontaneity self-expression , and so on ) .
18 Talk of the sensual , the erotic , was so often seen in relation to the female body .
19 The colour of the polyps also varies considerably ; brown , green and pale blue are the most often seen in the UK , though red , pink and purple specimens are also found , as are striped forms , the stripes radiating from the mouth
20 ‘ Cut out middleman 's profits — buy direct from the manufacturer ’ is a phrase often seen in newspaper advertisements , implying that the retailing and wholesaling functions are otiose , or at least inefficient .
21 By the mid 1980's the emergence of lower priced computer systems and the vast increase in demand had forced the price of a typeface down to around $450 , the classic ‘ generation ’ jump that is often seen in computing hardware and software pricing .
22 Like a small Moorhen ( p. 117 ) with a long red bill , which also distinguishes it from all the smaller crakes ; most often seen in rear view , as it dashes back into cover , when barred flanks and greyer under tail coverts distinguish from Moorhen .
23 Contrary to what is often seen in films , very few kicks are employed .
24 It is often seen in competition , but for safety reasons the heel strike is substituted for the sole of the foot .
25 The Royal Bank 's own coat-of-arms , granted in 1960 , is not often seen in the Age of the Logo , but does appear on our banknotes and , more recently , made a welcome appearance on the Highline card .
26 A familiar example of interference in the case of light is the colors that are often seen in soap bubbles .
27 Atrophic gastritis and superficial gastritis were more often seen in the alcoholic patients , which accounted for the hypochlorhydria seen in a group of these patients .
28 In the heart , clinically significant cardiac amyloid with congestive heart failure is more likely in AL than in AA , because extensive amyloid interstitial infiltration in the myocardium is more often seen in AL than in AA .
29 A complicating factor , so often seen in evolution , involves the ‘ cheats ’ , for there are many species with non-nutritious seed appendages but coloured so as to mimic them , e.g. species of Ormosia and Rhynchosia ( Leguminosae ) .
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