Example sentences of "[noun] are [adv] seen [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Helices are often seen because they are a particularly simple pattern of growth . |
| 2 | However , all the important branches of physics are now seen as engineering subjects in their own right and are often taught without much of the underlying physics . |
| 3 | Tall hierarchies are often seen as bureaucratic . |
| 4 | Higher administrators are also seen as dominant within the political directorate of the liberal democratic state . |
| 5 | It is interesting to me that periods are never seen as important . |
| 6 | So notions and functions are generally seen as replacing linguistic structures as units of content , and a notional/functional ( and therefore communicative ) orientation is seen to be incompatible with a concern for grammatical structure and meanings intrinsic in form . |
| 7 | One official said : ‘ Pilots are often seen as above reproach . |
| 8 | The chances of the man who was seen as a contender for the presidency until a few days ago , the former leader , Mr Alexander Dubcek , winning the post are now seen as receding . |
| 9 | Caecilians are rarely seen for they seldom come to the surface except at night and even if they are accidentally dug up , they may well be mistaken for brightly coloured earthworms . |
| 10 | For the purposes of my present argument , however , of even greater importance than the influence exercised by Les Annales is the fact that their approach is clearly governed by the idea — definitive of concessive holism — that individualist and holist explanations are best seen as answering to different interests , and therefore as contributing , at least to some extent , to independent projects . |
| 11 | It has been claimed by some writers that distinctive feature analysis is not irrelevant to the study of language learning , and that pronunciation difficulties experienced by learners are better seen as due to the need to learn a particular feature or combination of features than as the absence of particular phonemes . |
| 12 | They will also clarify whether such difficulties are best seen as an exaggerated form of more normal occurrences , or as arising in a different way from the mistakes made by normal people . |
| 13 | It matters not that those customers are today seen as perfectly reasonable countries without weapons intentions who should not be denied the benefits of modern technology . |
| 14 | Certain kinds of object are better seen if they are lit from below . |
| 15 | With interest rates of 4 per cent or more above bank base rate , bridging loans are often seen as risky and expensive . |
| 16 | By contrast , in America permanence planning and research into permanence are always seen as including rehabilitation with the child 's natural family as a major permanence option . |
| 17 | By and large , these new firms are : ‘ overwhelmingly British-owned , single , independent establishments of relatively small size ’ , in which employee relations are generally seen as involving good informal communications and flexible working practices ( quoted in the Financial Times , 20 February 1987 ) . |
| 18 | The region 's wetlands , mangrove swamps and coral reefs are also seen as under threat . |
| 19 | Societies are thus seen as made up of three interconnected structures , each of which is seen as a mode of production , transforming raw materials into commodities . |
| 20 | Female criminals are often seen as suffering from some physical or mental pathology ( disease ) and the courts still accept the arguments , that female offenders have biological problems , with the menopause , pregnancy , pre-menstrual tension and so on regularly used as explanations or excuses for their criminality . |
| 21 | But eels are seldom seen and do n't provide much sport . |
| 22 | As a result , women 's issues are often seen as irrelevant , or at best of low priority , and yet tacking women 's needs is central to improving the status of the most deprived — most of whom are women . |
| 23 | Also , the fact that free , rational human beings are still seen as requiring organised discouragement from committing crime implies an acceptance of its ‘ naturalness ’ . |
| 24 | Human beings are therefore seen as having a seventy million year old ‘ wiring ’ . |
| 25 | A similar analysis comes from Harvey , although the class alliances are here seen as being at national or regional levels . |
| 26 | Today many inequalities are increasingly seen as socially determined and their defence has become both more difficult and more sophisticated . |