Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [be] see to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the coordinate system is set along the axis of the shaft , only one rotational freedom is seen to be allowable . |
| 2 | Schools where the size of the delegated budget was seen to be adequate , or even generous , were able to take more steps along the path to staff involvement in decision-making than those with a reduced budget . |
| 3 | German industry was seen to be a major threat to the European powers and to established patterns of Atlantic trade . |
| 4 | Admittedly the vicious cycle of police militarization and public alienation is seen to be kicked into play by the economic crumbling of the inner city , but thereafter the weight of the explanation is placed on inadequate ( or over-heavy ) policing . |
| 5 | The expectations and priorities of social workers are seen to be very low in relation to the children 's education ; changes of placement lead to changes of school and this is seldom taken into account in placement decisions . |
| 6 | An historical event was seen to be constructed from a number of different ‘ happenings ’ perceived as having specific meanings . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | With his concept of the linguistic sign Saussure created the basis of structuralism , both in linguistics and as a more broadly based movement of thought , in which all forms of social and cultural life are seen to be governed by systems of signs which are either linguistic or analogous to those of language . |
| 9 | Unless his Kuwaiti venture is seen to be a manifest failure for him personally , runs the argument , the job will have been only half done . |
| 10 | This body is then charged with providing a general report upon the operation of the industry , and making recommendations for change where the public interest is seen to be compromised . |
| 11 | Thus irreducible elements are seen to be the fundamental building blocks with respect to multiplication for the system Z. |
| 12 | The chosen design of an individual gear is seen to be successful only if it not only meshes with the next gear in the train but also contributes to the selection of the desired gearbox ratios . |
| 13 | They thought that Woonerven were safer , but the principal benefit was seen to be the bigger play areas and the environmental improvements . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | To reverse the same idea , individual behaviour is seen to be strongly influenced by the systems in which it functions . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The task of the nervous system was seen to be a computational one . |
| 18 | Some historians argue that modern ecology only became possible in the post-Darwinian age in which all natural relationships were seen to be fragile . |
| 19 | Thus the extent of right brainedness among left handers is seen to be a function of the position of the criterion used to classify sinistrality . |
| 20 | Being a soft teacher was seen to be one of the worst categories of offence . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | His leading characters are seen to be , in some sense , petty and peripheral : but peripheral to what ? |
| 23 | With a revised scale for its deficiency payments , in effect a reduction of 50% grant-aid to WEA classes in the county , the LEA with only marginally increased costs was seen to be acceding to public demand for continuity and simultaneously responding to the recommendation of the Carnegie Trustees . |
| 24 | The major problem was seen to be the hostility of teachers towards industrial and commercial values and the way in which this deflected ‘ bright ’ , traditionally educated pupils away from industry . |
| 25 | Perhaps 20 cases , for a population over 15,000 — a useful investment in making sure justice is seen to be done . |
| 26 | By examining decentralization in this way , the restructuring school argued , the role of regional policy was seen to be more complex . |
| 27 | Whereas Pleistocene geology was seen to be primarily concerned with stratigraphy and chronology , Butzer saw the need for a more comprehensive study of past environments and envisaged Pleistocene Geography as concerned with the natural environment and focused on the same themes of man and nature that are the concern of historical and contemporary geographies . |
| 28 | In this regard , the following requirements of the Short Courses are seen to be of positive value : |
| 29 | Informal care was seen to be characterised by : |
| 30 | The difference caused by the placement of the tone-unit boundary is seen to be equivalent to giving two different paraphrases of the sentences , as in : a ) A profit was made by those who sold quickly . |