Example sentences of "[be] seen [prep] be a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Family budgets are seen to be a private settlement of accounts between men and women , men 's unequal distribution of working-class incomes within their households is a right they fought for within the working-class movement and it is not yet susceptible to public political pressure within the movement . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | That we are courteous , efficient , and we are seen to be a caring organisation . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The market can not be seen to be a neutral , fair process whose structure simply permits participants to exercise free choice in negotiating and concluding exchange transactions . |
| 6 | Research might then be seen to be a mere luxury add-on , not an essential part of ‘ what it is to be an institution of higher education . |
| 7 | The induction in the core is magnified by the high permeability , except in the saturation regions where the result can be seen to be a trapezoidal induction waveform ( Fig. 3 ) . |
| 8 | He believes it important to be seen to be a good community person and to put back in some of what we take out . |
| 9 | It is to be hoped that the evidence provided by Margaret Clark ( 1988 ) will be seen to be a vital concomitant to the evidence considered by the Select Committee . |
| 10 | Even without evidence of a causal role in schizophrenia , the reduction of overprotective parenting may be seen to be a valuable preventive strategy for other psychiatric problems . |
| 11 | Unless his Kuwaiti venture is seen to be a manifest failure for him personally , runs the argument , the job will have been only half done . |
| 12 | He is an extremely nice man and was seen to be a successful and popular president , although his name was linked to allegations that certain transactions were not totally above board . |
| 13 | German industry was seen to be a major threat to the European powers and to established patterns of Atlantic trade . |
| 14 | As priests controlled the local school directly , this was seen to be a direct attack on their role in the school system . |
| 15 | On the latter point , the hon. Gentleman is well aware of what was said at the time of the Barlow Clowes affair , following an investigation by the ombudsman into what was seen to be a unique set of circumstances . |
| 16 | The task of the nervous system was seen to be a computational one . |