Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] seen to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turkey and Iran were widely seen to be vying for influence in the area . |
| 2 | Early approaches which saw the state as the' instrument' or tool of the dominant class , faithfully tending to its needs , were soon seen to be inadequate . |
| 3 | Christopher Gill ( Member for Ludlow and a Midlands businessman ) , as has been mentioned in Chapter 6 , has concerned himself for a long time with what were once seen to be obscure constitutional issues of subsidiarity . |
| 4 | Understandably , I was quite staggered and overjoyed to find , in the West Riding , very many primary schools where the creative energies of children were demonstrably seen to be central to their experience and learning . |
| 5 | The replies ranged from ‘ not much ’ , because the school had a bursar , to ‘ all day ’ , because a non-teaching head ‘ has to do something all day ’ or because the head was always seen to be going out to talk about devolution ! |
| 6 | Under the Net and Lord of the Flies are too philosophical to be called angry , Golding ( in any case ) was always seen to be a spirit apart , and a few of these authors were strikingly young at their moment of first success . |
| 7 | But that millennial day was still seen to be far off . |
| 8 | Hopkins appealed to working women in the name of ‘ the common dignity … of our womanhood ’ , but moral responsibility was often seen to be precisely what these women lacked and what middle-class women could give . |
| 9 | Child-centred education , at least in the Primary schools , was now seen to be respectable . |
| 10 | Officers took unkindly to being reformed by a self-educated and self-appointed expert in civil-military relations ; many , retired and active alike , began to conspire against a Republic which was increasingly seen to be not only anti-military but also ‘ soft ’ on the two issues that most obsessed military minds : regionalism and public order . |
| 11 | Because AIDS was initially seen to be confined to particular groups , some countries which associated drug-taking and homosexuality with deviant or criminal behaviour took punitive measures . |
| 12 | There was undoubtedly seen to be a growing problem regarding adolescent girls because they were maturing a little earlier and marrying later , around 25 , and it was in this context that such horrors as clitoridectomies could be developed . |
| 13 | From its early days , broadcasting was therefore seen to be a legitimate field of public policy and its development was shaped by periodic government inquiries . |