Example sentences of "[verb] can be seen " in BNC.
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| 1 | Developments across the country are uneven , but the shape of things to come can be seen in the greater provision of minor surgery by general practitioners , the increase in health promotion work in general practice , the employment of staff such as physiotherapists and dietitians to work alongside general practitioners , the establishment of shared care arrangements for treating conditions such as diabetes and asthma , and the introduction of ‘ treat and teach ’ schemes , in which specialists carry out some of their consultations in general practitioners ' surgeries and develop the skills of general practitioners in the process . |
| 2 | Twenty four hours after spawning , the eggs will hatch , and the minute fry can be seen wriggling on the bottom of the tank under the spawning mops . |
| 3 | As Michael Goldman ( 1975 ) suggests , fashions in acting can be seen in terms of the varying degrees to which it is thought proper to expose the private feeling of the actor . |
| 4 | When viewed from this vantage point , designing can be seen as more than just a means of creating and applying technologies : it is also revealed as a means of shaping relations between people . |
| 5 | The enormous popularity of hiking can be seen not only as a consequence of the formation of the YHA , but also of the emergence of many new organizations and clubs which undertook to arrange hikes and negotiate concessionary rates for travel , accommodation , and refreshment for their members , and others engaged in agitation for reform of the access laws . |
| 6 | Moreover , the ideological shifts that did occur can be seen to be consistent outgrowths of earlier party positions ; they did not represent , as contemporary propagandists liked to suggest , an abandonment of previous principles . |
| 7 | The way this defence was used can be seen from the following submission , made by a defendant charged with the possession of a hacksaw blade with intent to do criminal damage to the perimeter fence of the US naval base at Brawdy : |
| 8 | The degree to which this has occurred can be seen from the analysis of different signers presented in Kyle , Woll and Llewellyn-Jones ( 1981 ) . |
| 9 | In much of this material there was little attempt to relate such antipathy and prejudice to a consistent and coherent theory of behaviour , but the assumption and arguments on which it was based can be seen as the origins of a racial nationalist ideology which was to be more rigorously formulated at a later date . |
| 10 | Perhaps the distinction I want to draw can be seen more clearly if we start with an example involving size rather than colour . |
| 11 | The problems that this will create can be seen from Figure 4.4 , which shows a diamond moving across two receptive fields , one located above the other . |
| 12 | The third main way in which the idea of structure is undermined can be seen in Barthes 's use of the idea of codes . |
| 13 | Some of the typical distinctions between discourse which has been written and that which has been spoken can be seen in the following two descriptions of a rainbow . |
| 14 | Readiness to learn can be seen as the possession of learning at lower levels of the hierarchy , necessary to begin learning the present task . |
| 15 | The marks of charring can be seen everywhere there today . |
| 16 | The inside of each binding is a compacted mass of yellowed fatty tissue in which whorls and furling can be seen , looking not unlike the surface of the cerebral cortex . |
| 17 | Anthony Trollope possessed great talent which I think can be seen clearly in ‘ Barchester Towers ’ and ‘ The Last Chronicle of Barset ’ . |
| 18 | Transitions that are both electronically and magnetically allowed can be seen in a CD spectrum , as in a normal electronic spectrum . |
| 19 | Some indication of how this operates can be seen in the last extract quoted , other answers to these questions are to a certain extent dictated by the nature of the activities involved in each specific arts subject , and the way they are examined . |
| 20 | The distance that had to be covered can be seen in the case of the Primitive Methodists : they had no theological college until 1881 and when the new college in Manchester faced collapse it was only saved by the generosity of Sir William Hartley . |
| 21 | That there is a real disjunction between what the ideal institution ought to do and what it does can be seen in yet another attempt to describe the BBC as the ideal typical ‘ public service , institution . |
| 22 | A similar process of levelling can be seen on the Continent . |
| 23 | Ideally , an approach is required which will narrow the focus of the " act of identity " in such a way that individual choices like the one just mentioned can be seen as part of systematic behaviour patterns which are simultaneously typical of speakers ' own fictive speech communities and conditioned by the immediate context of the interaction in which they occur . |
| 24 | At Duxford airfield , the operations table from which aspects of the Battle of Britain were controlled can be seen along with the original control tower , hangar and runway . |
| 25 | What choices a writer makes can be seen against the background of relations of contrast and dependence between one choice and another ; for example ( to take a simple case ) the choice between transitive and intransitive verbs . |
| 26 | Something of the range of skills required can be seen in the career of the seventh-century bishop , Desiderius of Cahors . |
| 27 | The esteem in which the literary ability of these men was held can be seen in a collection known as the Epistulae Austrasiacae , which contains two of Dynamius 's letters and also a passing reference to the skills of Parthenius . |
| 28 | Just as the term ‘ literacy ’ itself turned out to be more precise than in general use , and we were able to pin down the distinction ‘ literate/non-literate ’ to ‘ literacy in classical Greece ’ as opposed to literacy or non-literacy elsewhere , so the grand consequences of the literacy being described can be seen from this passage to hinge on very particular distinctions . |
| 29 | In an extension of this , the first species described can be seen as the type , or the typical member , of its genus . |
| 30 | When a cartoon is made using traditional animation techniques , each cel is drawn with the preceding cel in the sequence below it — a process known as onion skinning — so that registration and the level of movement suggested can be seen . |