Example sentences of "a [noun sg] can be see " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the Grand , magistrates are two a penny , bankers of the sort who never lent Maxwell a farthing can be seen sipping sherry , chairmen of publicly quoted companies compare salaries , and retired officers of field rank renew old NATO friendships . |
| 2 | A figure can be seen silhouetted on the shaded section of the ridge , between the first and second pinnacles and right of an obvious cornice . |
| 3 | ( What was need in a child can be seen and experienced as greed in an adult . ) |
| 4 | In South East Asian or Middle Eastern groups the concept of leaderless groups is absurd ( if for different reasons ) but this is not so in collective cultures ( Norway , Finland , Denmark ) where a leader can be seen as a facilitator not as the final word . |
| 5 | The following , all paraphrasable by that-clauses ( paraphrases are given in brackets after each one ) , are also examples of this : ( 63 ) In the first stage of cellular reproduction the chromosomes ( which in the resting stage are not individually identifiable ) appear in the nucleus , each of which on inspection with a microscope can be seen to consist of two identical filaments called chromatids . |
| 6 | That stress must be a tensor can be seen as follows . |
| 7 | None the less a development can be seen in later classical law : . |
| 8 | Within the aggregate supply — aggregate demand framework of this chapter such a relationship can be seen to occur because if aggregate demand increases and firms can sell their goods for a higher price , they can afford to offer workers higher nominal wages . |
| 9 | The work of the Frankfurt School as a whole can be seen as a critique of ideology . |
| 10 | The preponderance of sole practitioner respondents to the consultation as a whole can be seen once again to have had a dramatic effect on the outcome of this particular question , with over three-quarters of the 55% who answered negatively being sole practitioners . |
| 11 | Nevertheless it insists that legal practice as a whole can be seen as organized around important legal conventions and this claim requires showing that the behaviour of judges generally , even those who are not conventionalists , converges sufficiently to allow us to find convention in that convergence . |
| 12 | The extent of such a claim can be seen in the cases of Hay v Hughes 1975 1 AER 257 , Regan v Williamson 1976 2 AER24l and Mehmet v Perry 1972 2 AER 529 . |
| 13 | An example of a chain can be seen when starting a car which can be plotted as follows : |
| 14 | After the war , hardly a man can be seen with a head covering . |
| 15 | Even though its former A status can be seen as a plus , Ray Boyce , business manager for HIV and drugs , deplores the decrease . |
| 16 | For US television , such a postmodernism can be seen less as an aesthetic reaction to modernism than as part of the logic of a ‘ classical ’ concern with convention produced by an economic structure which needs product differentiation within a highly competitive market . |
| 17 | Bearing in mind that the Earth is only about 150 million kilometres from the Sun , the chances of one of our spores being captured by any potentially life-sustaining planet of a Centauri can be seen to be very slender indeed . |