Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] seen to [be] " in BNC.

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31 Such guarantees must not merely be provided for in constitutions but must be seen to be honoured ;
32 Demands around housing therefore must be seen to be as politically central as demands around the wage and employment , and not simply be seen as a matter of individual choice , which for women in particular it is not .
33 Justice must be seen to be done , however , and when it had been seen to be done , the miscreants were cheered by a crowd assembled outside the court .
34 Such textual analysis , undertaken with a feminist pair of eyes , is uncovering the depth at which sexism must be seen to be present in the text .
35 Trainees who flunked the examination must be seen to be rebuked .
36 ‘ … and of all the jewels — the Diamond Waterfall — it must be seen to be believed … ’
37 The implications for social policy are as follows : first , that the main determinants of welfare are economic ; second , that the government 's role in diverting resources into social policies must be seen to be closely interrelated with , even dependent upon , the role it plays in the management of the economy ; third , that social policies will be determined by views about the way the economy does , or should , operate .
38 Emphasis must be put on the task , individuals must accept the need to modify their views for its sake , and group effort must be seen to be superior to individual effort .
39 Similarly , any leading capitalist country which wishes to exert hegemonic influence over the other capitalist economies must be seen to be capable of defending those political and strategic interests which its economic supremacy has given it .
40 He seems to be saying that the product must be seen to be either cheaper or different if people are to buy it .
41 The Government must be seen to be green .
42 The Government in its wisdom has backed nuclear power , so nuclear power must be seen to be green as well .
43 But the deal must be seen to be fair to all farmers in the United Kingdom because their circumstances vary depending on the country and the area in which they farm .
44 The lead adviser must be seen to be controlling the progress of the transaction and therefore it is useful to appoint a chairman for each progress meeting which should be attended by the principals and the senior member of each professional team .
45 Strategic development plans are best managed as portfolios , that is , during the development period early successes must be seen to be delivered , thus ensuring a continuous flow of systems products to maintain interest and commitment to the system from all users .
46 The links with the sixth form must be seen to be strong 80 that the risk of leakage to the county provision at 16 is minimised .
47 It 's not a case of being paranoid , it 's a case of seeking fairness for all the school children , and then some of them receiving disproportional , you know higher , er amounts of money , then that must be seen to be unfair , and I 'm certainly well supported in that .
48 And the operation must be seen to be multinational , so the UK contingent should ideally be increased to brigade strength — which underlines the case for reprieving the Highland regiments .
49 It is important , too , that close attention is paid to image building ( e.g. banks and insurance companies must be seen to be stable , reliable institutions , but with a friendly , non-intimidating attitude — an image which banks in particular have spent a lot of money fostering over the past decade ) .
50 What might be seen to be a hurdle is that the ‘ likely adverse effects on the animals concerned ’ will be weighed against ‘ the benefit likely to accrue as a result of the programme ’ ( 5.4 ) .
51 In that sense they might be seen to be moving in a different direction from the strongly centralist initiatives in connection with the national curriculum .
52 This might be seen to be more relevant to users but the trade-off would have to be made against the possible effects on the date of publication .
53 Erm the demonstration effect of failure should also be considered , that is if you fail once you 've undertaken an enterprise , this will affect your other policy objectives too , that is er you will be seen to be weak , your commitment to intervene on behalf of other allies might be seen to be , to have weakened er and , and generally you , you might have done your , your overall foreign policy stance er some , some considerable damage .
54 And that 's money we have to spend , and it in a way that was a controversial decision because members of the Council were genuinely concerned about spending money on what might be seen to be central services , when they were having to face not improving staffing in elderly persons ' homes .
55 The visitors could be seen to be bewitched at the learning about the cathedral coming out of such callow lips .
56 In other words , the focus of Gironella 's attention is neither historically nor iconographically arbitrary , although in some ways his reworkings of the paintings of others could be seen to be simply an extension of a fairly conventional activity .
57 The pursuers were keeping up as best they could but held little hope of catching him , though at the first fence on the second circuit — the seventeenth in the race — Red Rum could be seen to be keeping on gamely .
58 There was a heap of rough geological specimens , including two almost spherical stones , a little like cannon balls , one black and one a sulphurous yellow , some ammonites and trilobites , a large crystal ball , a green glass inkwell , the articulated skeleton of a cat , a heap of books , two of which could be seen to be the Divina Commedia and Faust , and an hourglass in a wooden frame .
59 On timeliness alone Electronic Publishing ( EP ) could be seen to be established .
60 These idealised sentences often turn out to be based , in fact , on the conventions of written language in the academic sub-culture and these linguists could be seen to be perpetuating , albeit in more sophisticated terms , the older , ideological conception of writing as the model for speech .
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