COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be seen/regarded as essential
▪
These measures are seen as essential for national security.
not a soul in sight/not a soul to be seen
▪
The night was dark and still, and there was not a soul in sight.
risk being seen/caught/arrested etc
▪
Workers who broke the strike risked being attacked when they left the factory.
seen a ghost (= he looked very frightened )
▪
He looked as if he’d seen a ghost .
you should have seen sb’s face (= used to say that someone was very angry, surprised etc )
▪
You should have seen his face when I told him that I was resigning.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(see and) be seen
I wouldn't be seen/caught dead
be nowhere to be seen/found
▪
Our tour guide was nowhere to be seen, so we set off to explore the city alone.
▪
She'd looked everywhere for her glasses, but they were nowhere to be found.
▪
Amelia Otis's name is nowhere to be found.
▪
But David Kent was nowhere to be seen.
▪
He had been searching for Morthen, to protect her from his violent half-brother, but she was nowhere to be found.
▪
I patrolled the town for a while, but they were nowhere to be seen.
▪
The prison director ordered a search, but the prisoner was nowhere to be found.
▪
When a game was on the line, Carr was nowhere to be found.
▪
Willie had looked around for the twins and George, but they were nowhere to be seen.
be to be seen/found/heard etc
▪
A comparable tendency is to be found in the theatre.
▪
A similar situation is to be found in other regions of the world.
▪
Further comments on attaching priorities to different subjects and to different levels of material are to be found in Chapter 3.
▪
He was to be found lurking in the band's dressing room whenever they ventured into Mancunian territory, which was often.
▪
It was to be found in the libraries of other leading Virginians: Lord Botetourt, Thos.
▪
She and two of the Aussies then proceeded to the next floor where guest bedrooms were to be found.
▪
The only reference to sustainable development was to be found in paragraph two hundred and thirteen.
▪
These words, in his own hand, are to be found, framed, inside the hall.
been there, seen that, done that
children should be seen and not heard
have seen better days
▪
Ms. Davis's car had certainly seen better days.
▪
Virginia's car had definitely seen better days.
▪
We are working at Nanking University, in rather cramped and primitive conditions, for the buildings have seen better days.
it remains to be seen
▪
"What is your next film going to be about?'' "Well, that remains to be seen.''
▪
It remains to be seen how many senior citizens will actually benefit from this new plan.
▪
What remains to be seen now is whether it is too late to save the rainforests.
▪
Whether the team can sustain its winning streak remains to be seen.
▪
And it remains to be seen if re- signing Greg Vaughn will be a hit or a miss.
▪
But it remains to be seen whether that will prove a significant omission.
▪
But it remains to be seen whether this will exacerbate chronic unemployment or solve it.
▪
Steel will make it remains to be seen.
▪
The meaning of prevention in the new Children Act is multifaceted and it remains to be seen how it will be operationalized.
▪
Today it remains to be seen whether Museveni's essentially centralist approach will be more successful than its predecessors.
▪
Whether I reach it remains to be seen!
▪
Yet it remains to be seen how strong are the forces of Euro-scepticism in Labour's own ranks.
seen one ... seen them all
you should have seen/heard sth
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
By mid-morning I had seen enough step wells and gonged enough bells to see me through lifetimes.
▪
Dreaming can on the other hand be seen as having a function in resolving emotional conflicts by a process of emotional integration.
▪
He really scents the difficulty but thinks it too hard for discussion and so conveniently pretends that he has not seen it.
▪
He was also seen on the same Monday slightly later standing at Crown Point, Martlesham.
▪
Mrs Thatcher herself is seen as the guardian of these traditional wisdoms.
▪
One would have supposed these veteran troops had seen too much of the real thing to seek amusement in playing at battle.