Example sentences of "be seen [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the animals which he used to shoot are seen above his head |
| 2 | Most are seen between December and February , with a decided peak in January . |
| 3 | According to Lipkin , during the development of colonic adenomas , several stages of abnormalities in cell kinetics are seen between normal and adenomatous crypts while maintaining a normal cellular morphology . |
| 4 | It is accepted that some 10 to 15 per cent of cases are seen outside the clinics by private or general practitioners , and it is unusual for these cases to be reported to the Department of Health . |
| 5 | His leading characters are seen to be , in some sense , petty and peripheral : but peripheral to what ? |
| 6 | Certainly the social sciences are seen to be the arbiters of revolutionary change which might somehow dismantle the police institution and its processes , and this has led it to negate the reforming social scientists , keeping them as outsiders beyond the system . |
| 7 | Maybe our weakness is our strength , thought Cameron — we are seen to be democrats , nothing like the Prince 's bands of warriors . |
| 8 | The famous trio of Eiger , Monch and Jungfrau loom over the pistes of tiny British-dominated Wengen , and are seen to even better advantage from even tinier Murren ( the one resort which genuinely is traffic-free ) . |
| 9 | That cultural regulation , as we have seen , is controlled by men , for ( and this brings me to the third point ) , within this scheme of thought , woman herself is placed more fully within the realm of nature than man in consequence of the fact that more of her time and her body are seen to be taken up with the natural processes surrounding reproduction of the species . |
| 10 | Children are seen to be innocent of life 's problems and should somehow not have to face all the difficulties of death . |
| 11 | It is no accident that ‘ street furniture ’ and ‘ public art ’ are seen to best effect in a context which is entirely new — like London 's Broadgate office centre — or radically changed , such as the revived dockland areas in London , Liverpool , Cardiff and Swansea . |
| 12 | If their discharges are seen to be causing harm they can be liable in the civil courts . |
| 13 | Agreement with the objectives will help to ensure that they are seen to be important and that activity will be directed towards their achievement . |
| 14 | It is an issue both of absolute shortages of the wood .. and the distributions of available wood supplies between different uses and users … its causes are seen to be closely linked to the distribution of economic and political power between classes and social groups which determines who gets how much of a scarce resource . |
| 15 | In some policies the two problems are seen to be combined where the systems of farming collectively called shifting cultivation have reached a point where their carrying capacity has been exceeded , and fallow periods have become so short that degradation and erosion have set in ( Allan 1967 ) . |
| 16 | The beneficiaries are not small farmers except in a few isolated cases where costs and benefits are seen to be equally shared ( e.g. in Sukhomaj Village which is discussed in the CSE report , p. 14 ) . |
| 17 | Carpentier , in particular , explores Latin America 's relation to the Western world , notably in Explosion in a Cathedral , which portrays Caribbean society against the background of the French Revolution , and , in all of his works , implanted European systems are seen to be inappropriate to the American environment . |
| 18 | Even when a building is relatively plain inside , as time passes all historic finishes and fabric are seen to be of greater significance ; so it is desirable to preserve as much of the original interior as possible . |
| 19 | All the ugly sheds along the riverfront have been removed and the newly cleaned oatmeal brickwork and fish-scale roofs , complete with gilded dolphins , are seen to full advantage . |
| 20 | Opposition from vested interests will be intense , but no one should underestimate the power of the goodwill that survives to be tapped as soon as politicians are seen to be moving in the right direction . |
| 21 | When the sheet is examined in the electron microscope filaments are seen to be localized at the upper surface . |
| 22 | If their commitment and reliability are seen to be less than that of a paid worker then the stereotype will be reinforced and the many totally committed and reliable volunteers will be misjudged . |
| 23 | With this policy rewards are seen to be under your control — not his or hers to manipulate . |
| 24 | This state of detachment is in some ways like the discrimination of Shankara in which all things are seen to be the same though they possess the illusion of being different . |
| 25 | They are more likely to do this if they are seen to be making a direct and positive contribution to the school 's consultative and decision-making processes , rather than observing from a distance in a way that underlines the ‘ us-them ’ relationship . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , increased delegation will depend on government carving out more areas of activity for which authorities are seen to be responsible , and central intervention is improper . |
| 27 | A special feature is the series of transparent overlays supplied , some to generate the moire patterns , others to provide a novel representation of the geometrical illusions , whereby one part of the configuration is separated from the remainder , and the distorted circles are seen to be truly circular , the apparently diverging lines to be truly parallel . |
| 28 | Illustrations are seen to be a motivating factor for poor readers , but they are otherwise considered to be a distraction and ‘ do not themselves make the reading level of the prose any lower ’ ( ibid . |
| 29 | House sites are seen to be a scarce resource , by both Shetlanders and incomers , basically because the amount of sites given planning permission by the local authority is ever decreasing . |
| 30 | This means that we are seen to be thinking with our partner rather than thinking against them . |