Example sentences of "are [adv] seen " in BNC.

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1 There is an argument of increasing popularity with government and some of the advisers to government , that since comprehensive schools are widely seen to do worse for their pupils than selective schools in terms of examination results , and since so many people , if they can afford it , are removing their children from the maintained comprehensive sector to independent schools ( which are broadly speaking selective ) a way must be found for government to supply non-comprehensive schools , in the interests of the country as a whole .
2 The FDA 's audacious new tactics gained massive media coverage and are widely seen as only the beginning of a serious assault on products whose labelling is thought to violate federal law .
3 Some , like the hardline godfather Chen Yun , are so infirm they are rarely seen in public .
4 It is interesting that holdings of libraries of the Established Church are rarely seen .
5 Grey Plovers are rarely seen away from the coast in Sussex , but there have been six such records since 1947 in March , April , May , October ( three together ) , November , and December .
6 Because of the hostile environment for which they were built and in which they excel , Beavers are rarely seen by us ‘ soft ’ folk from civilization ; yet who knows how many are still soldiering on ( Beavering away ? ) in the jungles , mountains , deserts and tundra of the world ?
7 The royal couple are rarely seen together outside official engagements .
8 Although the couple are rarely seen in public together — Lewis went solo to the Golden Globe awards , though Brad accompanied her to the Oscars — Pitt says it 's not a conscious choice to avoid the paparazzi , they just never go out .
9 Lochan Fada , Fionn Loch and a score of other water expanses , jewels in sunlight , sullen under cloud , are rarely seen .
10 Caecilians are rarely seen for they seldom come to the surface except at night and even if they are accidentally dug up , they may well be mistaken for brightly coloured earthworms .
11 Snow algae are widespread in alpine and polar regions , but require persistent banks of melting snow to form spectacular coloured patches ; they are rarely seen , for example , on the colder coasts or interior ice-cap of Antarctica .
12 Although they have a base in Hanover House , they are rarely seen here as their workload of visits increases .
13 The customer services team are rarely seen by customers but maintain close contact with every one of them over the telephone .
14 Despite the prevalence of patent D. arnfieldi infection in donkeys , overt clinical signs are rarely seen ; however , on close examination slight hyperpnoea and harsh lung sounds may be detected .
15 Mythological stories about them suggest they are necessarily seen in this simplistic way to reaffirm to ‘ real polises ’ that it is they who are the true inhabitants of the pragmatic world of conflict and action .
16 In some areas , however , a different model of teamwork has evolved in which the tasks of assessment and management are shared , and not all patients are necessarily seen at any time by a psychiatrist .
17 As a translator he was modest , exhorting and beseeching those of his readers ‘ who are better seen in the Scriptures than I , and have higher gifts of grace to interpret the Scripture ’ to correct his work .
18 Certain kinds of object are better seen if they are lit from below .
19 It has been claimed by some writers that distinctive feature analysis is not irrelevant to the study of language learning , and that pronunciation difficulties experienced by learners are better seen as due to the need to learn a particular feature or combination of features than as the absence of particular phonemes .
20 Unlike the trams , they are only seen during the summer season .
21 Yet these same people may have great sources of energy which are only seen in non-career activities .
22 It is only on these rare occasions that I see zander fighting deep down in the water for most are only seen at the netting stage due to the colour of the water that they are generally caught in .
23 The shamanic practices we have investigated are rightly seen as an archaic mysticism .
24 Men are somehow seen as more in need .
25 Men who stray are somehow seen as more exciting and desirable than good old Mr Steady ( remember how Paddy Ashdown 's poll popularity grew after he 'd ‘ confessed ’ ) .
26 Playing football , telling a joke or making model aeroplanes are normally seen as second-order experiences , unless one happens to be a professional footballer , a comedian or a model aeroplane manufacturer .
27 The phenotypic effects of a gene are normally seen as all the effects that it has on the body in which it sits .
28 All three vehicles have been the subjects of intensive restoration work over many years and are normally seen on display in the Centre 's Matthew Kirtley Museum .
29 Faces are best seen against a plain background , so avoid heavily patterned wallpaper and fussy wall ornaments .
30 For the purposes of my present argument , however , of even greater importance than the influence exercised by Les Annales is the fact that their approach is clearly governed by the idea — definitive of concessive holism — that individualist and holist explanations are best seen as answering to different interests , and therefore as contributing , at least to some extent , to independent projects .
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