Example sentences of "could be see [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The glint of diamanté or pearl-embroidered dresses could be seen under black veils . |
| 2 | He also had another er , what we call a journey waybill and that , he used to record on there at each termini he used to record the time and the ticket numbers that he 'd got in his rack at that particular time , so it could be seen between certain times that a ticket perhaps was sold between Witton and Rushmere Heath . |
| 3 | Other charity administrators say that Wolfson 's policy could help to legitimize the campaigns of anti-vivisectionists and could be seen as implicit criticism of the efforts of laboratory researchers . |
| 4 | English , on the other hand , has to be able to distinguish dental from labiodental and alveolar places of articulation for to be distinct from and and for to be distinct from and ; this requires an additional feature that most languages do not need , and this could be seen as specific task for the learner of English . |
| 5 | Even if the government neglected to veto legislation of this sort , the Westminster Parliament could in theory pass laws to repeal colonial legislation , but in practice Parliament did not legislate on issues that could be seen as internal concerns of the colonies and did not go round picking up loose ends left by the governors . |
| 6 | Certainly , the composition of Model B 's national body , consisting of distinguished persons appointed by the Secretary of State , could be seen as commanding great credibility and providing ‘ for the first time in higher education an experienced and well-qualified team capable of looking with detachment at both the demand side and supply side of higher education ’ . |
| 7 | Similarly , the good and great could be seen as noble types appearing before their time . |
| 8 | could be seen as contrasting opposite ways of reacting to the modern era . |
| 9 | At the conclusion to Chapter 1 we provisionally adopted a multilevel concept of style , whereby more or less equivalent choices at a particular linguistic level could be seen as STYLISTIC VARIANTS , and in which these variants could be associated with STYLISTIC VALUES , or special significances associated with one variant rather than another . |
| 10 | William had come to the throne two years earlier , in 1688 , after the Glorious Revolution against the Catholic James II ; but although the Treatises do contain material which could be seen as after-the-fact justifications of the Revolution , they were not written for this reason . |
| 11 | Practically all the separate functions traditionally attributed to intonation ( attitudinal , accentual and grammatical ) could be seen as different aspects of discourse function . |
| 12 | It was recognised , for example , that in some people with an acquired disorder of language , it was only the production of language that was impaired , with language perception and comprehension still normal , whilst the opposite pattern ( impaired perception or comprehension with intact production ) could be seen in other patients . |
| 13 | A deeper understanding of the function of leys might emerge if they could be seen in ritual terms . |
| 14 | They could be seen in constant arguments in every European court , as in the past , about the relative positions of diplomats on formal and even informal occasions , their placing at table at meals where more than one was present , the precise way in which they were conducted to their first audience with the ruler to whom they were accredited , when and whether they stood or sat at such audiences , the precise moment when they or the ruler removed their hats , and a variety of such tremendous niceties . |