Example sentences of "[noun sg] be seen [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The company Directors Disqualification Act was seen to be starting to bit when figures produced in Impecunias , the magazine jointly run by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland and the Law Society of Scotland for insolvency specialists , showed a sudden surge in disqualifications in Scotland form just 49 by the end of April 1992 to 102 by the end of March this year . |
| 32 | The central issue was seen to be the relationship between the growth or contraction of the money supply and the pattern of national income and expenditure . |
| 33 | In so far as management budgeting was seen to be a failure , it was because it was perceived to be too much of a finance-led exercise which did not adequately tackle the organisational and behavioural issues . |
| 34 | When I tried to discover just what was really meant when it was said of a particular girl that she had been " married " in this sense seven times before she was nineteen , I was told that if a girl was seen to be cooking a meal for a man this was evidence that she was " married " to him . |
| 35 | ( 64 ) … and what is more the ideas themselves , if we are not too overawed by the empressement with which they are presented , on examination are seen to be not so very original after all . |
| 36 | That cultural regulation , as we have seen , is controlled by men , for ( and this brings me to the third point ) , within this scheme of thought , woman herself is placed more fully within the realm of nature than man in consequence of the fact that more of her time and her body are seen to be taken up with the natural processes surrounding reproduction of the species . |
| 37 | The poll tax was introduced because rates as a property tax were seen to be becoming increasingly unfair and undefendable . |
| 38 | Poverty is seen to be caused both by dependency and lack of opportunity . |
| 39 | Another consequence is seen to be the lower degree of legal regulation of industrial relations in Britain compared with countries where the labour movement developed in the context of a strong state ( see Bean 1985 : ch. 5 for a summary of the literature ) . |
| 40 | The researcher can then produce a brief for the creative team which should include what the status of the product is seen to be , who their consumers are , what the advertising is supposed to be doing and a whole host of other basic data . |
| 41 | It is increasingly important that there is just such a Wales-based environmental group putting forward a Welsh viewpoint ; and that such a group is seen to be supported at its grass roots by active branches playing parallel roles at local levels . |
| 42 | This can be done only if the whole body is seen to be involved in some way or other . |
| 43 | The novelist 's justification of ludism is usually couched in pseudo-political language : all meaning is seen to be implicitly ideological , therefore playful and experimental writing becomes a means of subverting dominant ideologies . |
| 44 | When the war was seen to be lost , after some vacillation he delivered himself up to the Scottish army at Newark . |
| 45 | A balance between freedom , natural behaviour and complete rigidity in the classroom was seen to be the ideal goal . |
| 46 | The move was seen to be due to the normalization of church-state relations following the establishment of the Solidarity-led government . |
| 47 | The move was seen to be a response to the average daily INRO market price indicator being below the " may buy " levels in the six months leading up to the review . |
| 48 | Being a soft teacher was seen to be one of the worst categories of offence . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | Efforts to chart continuities in maladjustment almost invariably fail to find more than a small relationship between early attachment or infant behaviour and later emotional or behavioural adjustment , and although very early relationships and behaviour are seen to be very important , most researchers aiming to demonstrate this fact end by concluding that discontinuity rather than continuity is the rule ( e.g. Lewis et al. , 1984 ; Fischer et al. , 1984 ) . |
| 51 | The relevant concept is seen to be that choice , influencing cost , which is borne exclusively by the decision-maker , can not be shifted to others and is dated at the moment of the decision . |
| 52 | This is , of course , why industrialization is seen to be so important in most theories of development . |
| 53 | So notions and functions are generally seen as replacing linguistic structures as units of content , and a notional/functional ( and therefore communicative ) orientation is seen to be incompatible with a concern for grammatical structure and meanings intrinsic in form . |
| 54 | Purchase of market share is seen to be less costly than establishing brands — and is quicker too . |
| 55 | To reverse the same idea , individual behaviour is seen to be strongly influenced by the systems in which it functions . |
| 56 | The average monthly output is seen to be about 196.5 tons , which consisted of 72 parcels of various weights , copper percentages , and therefore values , ranging from £2 : 5s. : 1¾d. to £14 : 10s. : 9¾d. a ton ; rates being determined by the fluctuating Cornish Standard . |
| 57 | Members of HEAD were killed by the military during the Marcos years indicating clearly that HEAD was seen to be challenging what was an intolerable situation . |
| 58 | Compared to other graphics fairs , the London event was seen to be somewhat old fashioned in its approach and emphasis . |
| 59 | An historical event was seen to be constructed from a number of different ‘ happenings ’ perceived as having specific meanings . |
| 60 | Official permissiveness was seen to be justified as , at both moments , ‘ rebellion ’ was to a large extent articulated to predominantly safer musical patterns with less subversive meanings . |