Example sentences of "[was/were] seen to be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Machines that were seen to be at the forefront of technology just a few years ago are now readily replaced and cast-off with little or no second-hand value . |
| 2 | Some were canonised and others — like Eckhart and Tauler — were hounded by the Church , but all were seen to be of enormous importance by their contemporaries , even by people who could not follow them into the inner world . |
| 3 | The journals were seen to be in better health , both scientifically and economically , than for many years , and plans to take advantage of this situation , in promoting the journals to both authors and subscribers , were approved . |
| 4 | Some still retained private property as is evidenced by the fact that they met in private houses and that they would sell their assets if people were seen to be in need . |
| 5 | After further adventures in Spain , Nicholas had a dream in which his family were seen to be in trouble and needing him , so he returned to England , proceeded by a huge crate of the books collected on his travels . |
| 6 | On one occasion , two of these were seen to be in open disagreement about the legitimacy and desirability of actions taken by the authorities ; on another occasion , one of these was set up , in effect , to review recommendations made by another . |
| 7 | In the silence that followed most of the chiefs were seen to be in tears and the council was dissolved until the afternoon . |
| 8 | This was further enhanced later in the day , when , towards dusk , the entire Scots army , horse and foot , was seen to be on the move westwards , back along Tweedside . |
| 9 | When officers arrived he had climbed into the back yard and the Volvo was seen to be on fire . |
| 10 | When officers arrived he had climbed into the back yard and the Volvo was seen to be on fire . |
| 11 | His disciplinarian approach was seen to be at odds with West Ham 's tradition as a freewheeling and creative team . |
| 12 | Proposals for private motorised travel were , on the other hand , very different , for this mode was seen to be at the root of many of the traffic and environmental problems of the experimental areas and so every effort was to be made to curb the excesses of its use . |
| 13 | With the Soviet Union accounting for 33 per cent of Romania 's foreign trade , the visit to Moscow in May 1990 of Alexandru Margaritescu , then Minister of Foreign Trade , was seen to be of special significance . |