Example sentences of "[noun sg] be seen [prep] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A more marginal case is where the defendant is seen to be raising his fists in anticipation of the fight . |
| 2 | Professor Parker shows that this is not always a matter of dispassionate assessment but may turn on whether the research is seen to be delivering ‘ good ’ news or ‘ bad ’ news . |
| 3 | In the drawing the arrow is seen to be pulling inwards the boundary of the information field . |
| 4 | The company Directors Disqualification Act was seen to be starting to bit when figures produced in Impecunias , the magazine jointly run by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland and the Law Society of Scotland for insolvency specialists , showed a sudden surge in disqualifications in Scotland form just 49 by the end of April 1992 to 102 by the end of March this year . |
| 5 | When I tried to discover just what was really meant when it was said of a particular girl that she had been " married " in this sense seven times before she was nineteen , I was told that if a girl was seen to be cooking a meal for a man this was evidence that she was " married " to him . |
| 6 | The poll tax was introduced because rates as a property tax were seen to be becoming increasingly unfair and undefendable . |
| 7 | Members of HEAD were killed by the military during the Marcos years indicating clearly that HEAD was seen to be challenging what was an intolerable situation . |
| 8 | It also helps with the image of the school library in that the school librarian is seen to be using new technology to improve the efficiency of the school library . |
| 9 | When policy was seen to be hurting the colonies , some protested ; but even the many who accepted that Britain 's relations with its colonies were unsatisfactory saw this as a relatively minor blemish on an otherwise desirable system . |
| 10 | She asked him whether he would see the film and ‘ issue a statement about it both to encourage anxious parents and to ensure that the Church was seen to be caring about the matter ’ . |
| 11 | If on the basis of the best information the system is seen to be heading for some sort of catastrophe then people not unnaturally lose confidence in it . |
| 12 | The end came when Edward 's royal standard was seen to be leaving the field . |
| 13 | A ‘ devolved ’ school was seen to be meeting local needs more quickly . |
| 14 | In 1988 , the country was seen to be losing some of its best and brightest people , which further demoralised those who could not leave . |
| 15 | When compared with Financial Times-Stock Exchange FTSE 100 companies , excluding figures from banks and insurance firms , information technology was seen to be lagging behind with flat 1.4% annual turnover growth 4% compared with the FTSE median of 5.2% . |