Example sentences of "see to be " in BNC.

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1 They seen to be watching the passengers .
2 His leading characters are seen to be , in some sense , petty and peripheral : but peripheral to what ?
3 Once again , a sufferer is seen to be mad , and his fearful sense of what he is up to can be seen to dominate the book in which it is in the end defeated or controverted .
4 This was seen to be the democratic process at work .
5 Divorce was seen to be harder on the women than the men , who could get out of their family responsibilities so much more easily with divorce than without it .
6 As priests controlled the local school directly , this was seen to be a direct attack on their role in the school system .
7 They focus not on areas of need but on areas where they want to be seen to be giving , and that 's usually where the spotlight happens for the moment to be falling .
8 Certainly the social sciences are seen to be the arbiters of revolutionary change which might somehow dismantle the police institution and its processes , and this has led it to negate the reforming social scientists , keeping them as outsiders beyond the system .
9 As we saw in the chapter dealing with rules , it is not enough for your punch to be an effective scoring technique ; it must be seen to be so , and this entails making its success obvious .
10 Maybe our weakness is our strength , thought Cameron — we are seen to be democrats , nothing like the Prince 's bands of warriors .
11 The task of the nervous system was seen to be a computational one .
12 The head , body and arms open out boldly in such a way that the performer is seen to be fully revealed to all as an honest , sincere person who has no need to dissemble .
13 This can be done only if the whole body is seen to be involved in some way or other .
14 Only in Petrushka is he seen to be the principal player in the action and even then only the actor-dancer 's complete commitment to the whole and complete loyalty to Fokine 's design make him dominate the action .
15 The Guardian commented that these sorts of deals ‘ would simply prompt further government investigations into the industry , unless the pub owning company was seen to be genuinely independent of the brewer ’ .
16 The induction in the core is magnified by the high permeability , except in the saturation regions where the result can be seen to be a trapezoidal induction waveform ( Fig. 3 ) .
17 Some of Ferguson 's tries had to be seen to be believed .
18 The United States thus finds itself in a no-win situation : the more it is seen to be intervening against him , the more it is likely to reinforce his position .
19 The bishops will betray that which is entrusted to them ; and the irresponsible silliness of the Synod will be seen to be sinful .
20 The international community , which has expressed overwhelming support for President Barco 's offensive , is under pressure to be seen to be doing something to help , and quickly .
21 Everyone agrees that something will have to be seen to be done before the next annual general meeting in February .
22 Charlton immediately came under fire , his decision to withdraw Brady from the fray seen to be cavalier and grossly insensitive .
23 The move caused some surprise in Whitehall , where the belief is that it would be damaging to Mr de Klerk if he were seen to be making reformist moves because of external pressure .
24 Such previously unimaginable impertinences must not only be done by the book : they must be seen to be too .
25 The avalanche of red tape surrounding events such as this ( the entire population of New Delhi appears to be employed handing out forms to fill in ) has to be seen to be believed , and it is by no means certain that , come 1 November , there will be any paper left to provide the winners with their cheque .
26 In between are the ‘ fair ’ judges , whose judgement is seen to be unaffected by mood or the time of the day , and whose punishment fits the crime .
27 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 .
28 The visitors could be seen to be bewitched at the learning about the cathedral coming out of such callow lips .
29 Whatever the book 's faults might be , it was seen to be an original contribution of power , and that a new force in Christian thinking had appeared among the Churches in England .
30 Also , even if a subject is never directly or completely ‘ freed ’ trom repression by its displacement , he or she may be empowered in other ways — for example , by being seen to be homophobic in a homophobic culture .
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