Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] seen to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , shortly afterwards , curio-sellers in Kano were seen to be selling photographs of the man , his wives and followers , and of some of the incidents that had taken place in December . |
| 2 | If the centre parties were seen to be self-interested in blocking the formation of a government through their insistence on a deal to introduce electoral reform then this could reflect badly on them in the election so cutting back their seats — and the prospect for proportional representation . |
| 3 | Some historians argue that modern ecology only became possible in the post-Darwinian age in which all natural relationships were seen to be fragile . |
| 4 | Second , it was written by a working party headed by John McFarlane , which meant that the non-practitioners were seen to be playing a prominent role in the APB 's activities and encouraging widespread debate . |
| 5 | My blackness was seen to be a public and political fact , whereas my gayness was seen as a purely personal matter . |
| 6 | Thus the hunt was on for heads of functions who could deliver results , and executive search was seen to be the only truly effective way to actually define and attract this key talent . |
| 7 | When officers arrived he had climbed into the back yard and the Volvo was seen to be on fire . |
| 8 | When officers arrived he had climbed into the back yard and the Volvo was seen to be on fire . |
| 9 | Of the four factors , a confiding tie with a husband or lover was seen to be the most important , in that this could protect against depression whether or not any one of the other three vulnerability factors was present . |
| 10 | The evolutionary and thermoregulatory relationship between birds and dinosaurs was seen to be strengthened in 1989 after an examination of the best preserved fossils of a pterosaur 's wings . |
| 11 | German industry was seen to be a major threat to the European powers and to established patterns of Atlantic trade . |
| 12 | CONCERN as to whether the parish council were seen to be fully behind the scheme to build a replacement sports pavilion at Four Marks recreation ground were expressed at the council 's meeting on Tuesday last week . |
| 13 | The firm has been at pains to correct this recently , however , and points to a ban of all flags in the workplace ( Union Jacks were seen to be intimidatory ) and its monitoring of the composition of the workforce . |
| 14 | They thought that Woonerven were safer , but the principal benefit was seen to be the bigger play areas and the environmental improvements . |
| 15 | Divorce was seen to be harder on the women than the men , who could get out of their family responsibilities so much more easily with divorce than without it . |
| 16 | The first wave approach to NHS management was seen to be increasingly inappropriate to the needs of the service and society at large . |
| 17 | The earliest evidence of modification was seen to be disarticulation of the skull bones and loss of teeth from the jaws ( particularly of unrooted microtine teeth ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The central issue was seen to be the relationship between the growth or contraction of the money supply and the pattern of national income and expenditure . |
| 20 | In so far as management budgeting was seen to be a failure , it was because it was perceived to be too much of a finance-led exercise which did not adequately tackle the organisational and behavioural issues . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Where libraries were seen to be furthering school purposes there was a strong case for supporting them adequately , in both financial and wider terms . |
| 23 | The poll tax was introduced because rates as a property tax were seen to be becoming increasingly unfair and undefendable . |
| 24 | When the war was seen to be lost , after some vacillation he delivered himself up to the Scottish army at Newark . |
| 25 | A balance between freedom , natural behaviour and complete rigidity in the classroom was seen to be the ideal goal . |
| 26 | The move was seen to be due to the normalization of church-state relations following the establishment of the Solidarity-led government . |
| 27 | The move was seen to be a response to the average daily INRO market price indicator being below the " may buy " levels in the six months leading up to the review . |
| 28 | Being a soft teacher was seen to be one of the worst categories of offence . |
| 29 | The process was seen to be too cumbersome and costly to provide much useful guidance to purchasers , who , in any case , preferred to back their own judgement . |
| 30 | With a revised scale for its deficiency payments , in effect a reduction of 50% grant-aid to WEA classes in the county , the LEA with only marginally increased costs was seen to be acceding to public demand for continuity and simultaneously responding to the recommendation of the Carnegie Trustees . |