Example sentences of "[verb] to [be] see [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prior to the meeting , the purchaser and MAS will need to establish their further information requirements distinguishing between that which will need to be investigated before more precise deal terms can be negotiated and that which will need to be seen before a deal can be completed . |
| 2 | Child rearing is more ‘ permissive ’ , and while children may not be granted the status of equal partners in the family decision-making process , they are no longer simply expected to be seen and not heard . |
| 3 | Compared to many other flowers which achieve greatest effect when planted en masse , the rose is essentially an individual beauty which has to be seen and smelled close to . |
| 4 | With Training Agency Compacts , the funding has to be seen as " pump-priming " . |
| 5 | This view appears disarmingly general but widely acceptable when it is stated as the idea that any economy has to be seen as only one part of a structured world system . |
| 6 | He argues that there is no single causal explanation for Britain 's decline ; rather , it has to be seen as resulting from a convergence of pluralist stagnation , a decline of class , and a revolt against authority . |
| 7 | ‘ The last thing I want to be seen as is a feminist agitator . |
| 8 | Others , and particularly the teachers , may seem too busy with their classes for the head to ask them to share this part of the school work-load , there is a shortage of clerical support , the heads want to be seen as in charge of everything as far as possible , and so on . |
| 9 | Certainly scientific approaches had come to be seen as unsuited to this project and therefore increasingly discarded . |
| 10 | Especially in the wake of the 1981 Brixton disorders , street life has come to be seen as problematic in character , as associated with youth — and especially with black or West Indian youth , and as being a cause or potential cause of riotous behaviour in the streets . |
| 11 | To allow the naughty child to be seen as good , the good child also needs to be seen as being naughty . |
| 12 | In post-Neolithic religious ideologies , however , attitudes to nature and to animal suffering became dissociated , and nature — in the sense of wilderness — came to be seen as fundamentally antagonistic to human interests ; a source of weeds , pests , predators and the dark forces of chaos . |
| 13 | It came to be seen as yet another instance of the depravity of the Sussex poor , firmly pointed out in 1834 : |
| 14 | Erm as it develops under the impact of the French revolution and Napoleonic rule and then later what nationalism came to be seen as it 's the basically the idea that erm that people of a common culture history and language should occupy perhaps that 's the wrong word . |
| 15 | Don Cupitt indeed suggests that the fact that Jesus , a human being , came to be seen as God , made for a situation whereby God the ‘ Father ’ also was conceived more anthropomorphically than was the case within the Jewish background . |
| 16 | The cost of inter-imperialist rivalry and wars , as well as the cost of administering the colonies , eventually came to be seen as wasteful and this , with the economic crisis of the 1930s , led to a problem of low profitability and under-consumption ; in other words , a decline in effective demand . |
| 17 | Like it or not , democracy ( which at the time meant votes for male workers ) gradually came to be seen as inevitable . |
| 18 | The general theory of relativity links the gravitational force and the structure of space–time , and so we should begin with a few remarks on the gravitational force and then explain how it was that the classical or Newtonian view of gravitation came to be seen as unsatisfactory . |
| 19 | This done , it was not long before the advantages of trusts in creating rights in third parties came to be seen and to be put to good use . |
| 20 | And it was a record that came to be seen and recognised by the local electorate , in particular the newly enfranchised women , not least through the efforts of Labour candidates to exploit it to political advantage . |
| 21 | Those who pursue explication can expect to be seen as suspicious , for they embody the marginality of the anthropologist , described by Lévi-Strauss ( 1973 : 67 ) as being someone who is ‘ psychologically speaking maimed , an amputee ’ . |
| 22 | Because of my research experience working with two aspects of permanence , related in my book Captive Clients ( 1980 ) and the evaluation of The Child Wants a Home project ( Adoption and Fostering , Vol. 9 , No. 1 ) , I find it particularly sad that when the term permanence is mentioned in British social work circles it tends to be seen as synonymous with adoption . |
| 23 | She tends to be seen as bossy and interfering — a favourite target of comedians and a figure of fun on seaside postcards . |
| 24 | What we have done is we have erm been able to utilise some A C T capacity or generate some A C T capacity within one of the subsidiaries within the group um the reason for highlighting it highlighting it is not particularly to make a song and dance about it but is particularly to say that on the cash flow statement there is this in-flood and it is a one off in-flood we 're not going to be seeing that being brought forward every year , but basically what it is is we have profits in previous elements of the group which enabled us to generate A C T capacity enabled us to off set this A C T which we paid on dividends and bringing forward earlier than we would otherwise have done . |
| 25 | As one London analyst said yesterday : ‘ Psychologically , having the Chinese Government take a stake like this is going to be seen as very positive . ’ |
| 26 | At the same time , there has been ready consumer acceptance of two types of credit which have tended to be seen as quite different . |
| 27 | Large patient throughput in hospitals can undoubtedly give the impression of excessive use if patients spend many hours waiting to be seen or queuing for drugs . |
| 28 | Science and technology thus ceases to be seen as autonomous but rather as part of an interesting system in which the internalised ideological assumptions help to determine the actual experimental designs and theories of the scientists and technologists themselves . |
| 29 | In a passage which is bound to be seen as highly controversial in the present situation in East Germany , Sir Leon said : ‘ If Germany 's partners give the impression of being opposed to reunification this will only increase what is at present a small risk : that some in Germany may be tempted to seek reunification on the basis of doing a unilateral deal with the Soviet Union , involving the setting up of a new unified German state outside the Community . |
| 30 | The importance of Braque 's contribution to Cubism and his stature as an artist began to be seen and acknowledged only after the war . |