Example sentences of "[was/were] seen to [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lim 's sources of information were seen to be much more effective than the Army 's compromised intelligence gathering network , as evidenced by the fact that four of the chief rebel officers captured since the coup attempt had been tracked down and arrested by the police . |
| 2 | These were doubtless satisfactory for the individuals who had collected them and for a short period of time , until perhaps superseded by rulings that were seen to be more appropriate . |
| 3 | Frank Laczko and Chris Phillipson show how the emergence of retirement in the twentieth century created a sharp dividing line between those who were seen to be actively part of the community and those who were not . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The 23-year-old midfielder was seen to be verbally at odds with his father after being substituted at Reading on Sunday during Birmingham 's 1–0 FA Cup defeat . |
| 6 | As a result , the range of permissible accounting treatments was seen to be amazingly broad . |
| 7 | In the Reich the various German patriotic societies were designed to combat ‘ Jewish influence ’ , which was seen to be both ethnically alien and racially inferior , and also to be at the very heart of the economic change that at once afflicted and enriched German society . |
| 8 | Whereas Pleistocene geology was seen to be primarily concerned with stratigraphy and chronology , Butzer saw the need for a more comprehensive study of past environments and envisaged Pleistocene Geography as concerned with the natural environment and focused on the same themes of man and nature that are the concern of historical and contemporary geographies . |
| 9 | The first wave approach to NHS management was seen to be increasingly inappropriate to the needs of the service and society at large . |
| 10 | It was seen to be not an excrescence on the body politic , having no bearing upon its general health , but an organic disease … a running sore that affected the entire fabric of society , a morass exhaling a miasma that poisoned the healthy elements of industry . |
| 11 | The ‘ star system ’ , promoted and hyped by the media , was seen to be largely a male preserve . |
| 12 | Any distortion or disruption of the floor was seen to be potentially very dangerous . |
| 13 | The feudal bond of duty and loyalty was seen to be almost as strong as , and certainly similar to , the ties of blood relationship . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Compared to other graphics fairs , the London event was seen to be somewhat old fashioned in its approach and emphasis . |
| 16 | By examining decentralization in this way , the restructuring school argued , the role of regional policy was seen to be more complex . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In Germany this proximity was seen to be entirely natural . |
| 19 | Theliver was seen to be severely congested . |
| 20 | It was important that employee information remained secure , and was seen to be so . |
| 21 | The Guardian commented that these sorts of deals ‘ would simply prompt further government investigations into the industry , unless the pub owning company was seen to be genuinely independent of the brewer ’ . |