Example sentences of "[be] see [prep] [be] " in BNC.

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31 Different attitudes confront older people ; they are seen to be too slow , too set in their work practices , or possessing skills which have become or will become redundant .
32 Yet because the old are seen to be more ill , more often than other age groups , illness and old age have become closely associated in our minds , leading to the belief that the old have to suffer and bear an unavoidable amount of pain and discomfort .
33 Male carers are often omitted from detailed study because they are seen to be unimportant or assumed to be so few in number .
34 Have regard to the workload and the pressures on professional colleagues and subordinates and take appropriate action if these are seen to be such as to constitute abuse of the individual practitioner and/or to jeopardise safe standards of practice .
35 From this vantage point , the heads of both lochs are seen to be terminated by a group of mountains that seem to bar further progress eastwards .
36 A system is a set of interacting parts which has meaning as a whole because it is possible to define a purpose — a reason why the parts are seen to be related to the whole and a justification for the concept of the whole ( Singleton , 1974 ) .
37 All aspects of education are included and the experiences of black and female pupils are seen to be qualitatively different from that of white male pupils .
38 The loss for the quarter of $285m , $0.50 a share , was in line with analysts ' estimates , which averaged at a loss of $0.49 a share , and cost controls are seen to be improving .
39 Traditional views of family life are seen to be unsupported by research findings , but research can assist the identification and development of policies and good practice which can help children at risk and in need to become good parents in their turn .
40 The expectations and priorities of social workers are seen to be very low in relation to the children 's education ; changes of placement lead to changes of school and this is seldom taken into account in placement decisions .
41 The loss for the quarter of $285m , $0.50 a share , was in line with analysts ' estimates , which averaged at a loss of $0.49 a share , and cost controls are seen to be improving .
42 But certain images are seen to be universal , such as that of the holy mother and child .
43 Taking into account their respective lifetimes ( 1–2 weeks and 1 day ) , however , the two oxidants are seen to be approximately equal in importance as repositories of highly reactive oxygen .
44 Allowing doctors to choose whether to spend time in teaching , or research , or management will work only if all of the options are seen to be of equal importance .
45 Opinions are seen to be less stable than values and relate to less important or transient issues .
46 Differentials do exist between blue- and white-collar workers , but they appear to be narrower than in most Western companies , and they are seen to be justified by different educational qualifications .
47 When the remainder of the known fortified sites are plotted on a map ( fig. 7.1 ) most of them are seen to be distributed along three routes :
48 Women are under more ideological pressure to maintain a perfect home in owner-occupied property , where standards are seen to be the individual responsibility of the owners , rather than being outside a tenant 's control as in rented property , although of course women in all forms of accommodation are subjected to these pressures .
49 She proposes an alternative model of mind in which feelings are paid sufficient attention , and in which , through language , they are seen to be intelligent rather than rational , non-rational or irrational .
50 The rewards , however , are seen to be worth the effort to master the new game .
51 On such a calendar , the Gunflint fossils of algae-like organisms , which seemed so extremely ancient when they were first discovered , are seen to be quite latecomers in the history of life , not appearing until the second week of August .
52 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 .
53 Thus irreducible elements are seen to be the fundamental building blocks with respect to multiplication for the system Z.
54 The benefits of skeleton arguments are seen to be :
55 In Germany ( where population is not the problem ) there are seen to be regulations and restrictions that have the effect of closing the secondary school market to UK product .
56 However , there are certain qualities which are seen to be peculiar to physics and these are crucial to our understanding of the construction of physics as a discipline .
57 Are seen to be exemplars , as a source of ideas and inspiration .
58 The various parts of society are seen to be interrelated and taken together they form a complete system .
59 Within the other major departments , reflecting the other phases of design , their responsibilities are seen to be in responding to direct requests for schemes or analysis .
60 In mechanical engineering these are seen to be centred around the generation of geometric shapes which in association perform a specified function .
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