Example sentences of "seen [prep] be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the only one I 've ever seen for is Wrigley 's |
| 2 | Some observers suggested that the timing of the announcements reflected the government 's desire to be seen to be spending money on the countryside in the run-up to the April general election . |
| 3 | Thus , local authority departments have to be seen to be spending money wisely as they are more publicly accountable . |
| 4 | Whilst both the block and the hole are seen to be elements of the " component " , they must maintain a specified relationship in order that the functionality of the component is maintained , ie the domain of the hole lies within the domain of block according to the previously declared rules . |
| 5 | Hans Locher , former professor of art history at Groningen University and chief curator at the Gemeentemuseum since 1987 is seen to be Fuchs 's most likely successor there . |
| 6 | Throughout the 1960s there was increasing analysis of and comment on what was seen to be Britain 's flagging economic performance . |
| 7 | In Germany ( where population is not the problem ) there are seen to be regulations and restrictions that have the effect of closing the secondary school market to UK product . |
| 8 | Furthermore , if the problem is seen to be women taking men 's jobs , making them unemployed , the problem is one of macroeconomic policy , and is not to be solved by effectively concentrating it in a disguised fashion among non-working wives . |
| 9 | Boccara/Boucherit of France had the next fastest time but they were seen to be wash hanging , not for the first time at this level , and a protest was upheld , posing the question why the umpires Riccardo Guala and Glyde Brytt had given white flags . |
| 10 | Some women , on the other hand , freed by the menopause from fears of unwanted childbirth , interruption of sexual life by menstrual periods and what they have seen to be slavery to the body in this respect , have always found themselves to be sexually released by the climacteric and have enjoyed sex more afterwards . |
| 11 | Simple practice without analysis may be seen to be part of the craft tradition ; crafts people and their wares not being subject to literary criticism in the way that arts people are and historically have been . |
| 12 | Every problem or alien thing can by a creative expansion of the mind be seen to be part of a larger whole within the mind . |
| 13 | There is a tendency to look upon literature , particularly capital L ‘ Literature ’ , as something separate from life , but once literature is thought of in terms of story-telling and story-making , then it is seen to be part of a common and seemingly-essential human activity . |
| 14 | To many Shetlanders this is often seen to be part of a more general shortcoming on behalf of incomers — their over-riding desire to maintain the status quo in local communities as soon as they are established there . |
| 15 | The idea that science should be expressed in someone else 's language , the compulsory ‘ the test-tube was placed over the bunsen burner ’ , may disadvantage many pupils but especially girls if that other language is seen to be part of the world of men . |
| 16 | Older people will be seen to be contributors to the prosperity of others , rather than a drain on national resources , as they are now often , wrongly , depicted . |
| 17 | Maybe our weakness is our strength , thought Cameron — we are seen to be democrats , nothing like the Prince 's bands of warriors . |
| 18 | The engineering files are thus seen to be data stores containing both man-readable and machine-readable instructions for the manufacture of the specified articles . |
| 19 | In this way , the more specific question would be related to a more comprehensive framework of conceptual evaluation , and particular techniques seen to be realizations of more general principles of teaching . |
| 20 | As the light grows , they are seen to be ROS and GUIL , and to be resting quite comfortably . |
| 21 | The earliest evidence of modification was seen to be disarticulation of the skull bones and loss of teeth from the jaws ( particularly of unrooted microtine teeth ) . |
| 22 | Are seen to be exemplars , as a source of ideas and inspiration . |
| 23 | The fate of seven ‘ Amcits ’ , a Frenchman and two ‘ Brits ’ was not compelling enough to be seen to be driving policy ; something much more portentous was needed . |
| 24 | To be precise , in the original class of solutions given by Yurtsever ( 1988 a ) , V is taken in the form ( 10.77 ) which can be seen to be generalizations of the degenerate Ferrari-Ibañez solution described in Section 10.5 . |