Example sentences of "be [adv] seen to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The different approaches are thus seen to be distinct , but perhaps not in conflict ; each approach is seen as an area of specialism , rather than as an area of commitment . |
| 2 | Beliefs are usually seen to be different again ( at least by researchers ) ; they are propositions about work and society . |
| 3 | For this reason they are often seen to be weak ; yet it is this very willingness of the subordinates to shift their own goals in order to preserve the harmony of the team that makes it possible for the group at the top of the hierarchy to perform at all . |
| 4 | In the light of this passage we can interpret one of Wordsworth 's gnomic sayings — ‘ The Child is Father of the Man ’ — and can understand what the attractive childhood episodes are doing in Books i and ii ; they are now seen to be similar ‘ spots of time … enshrined … for future restoration ’ . |
| 5 | In this case the developer would probably say to the local authority , I want this site and it 's all or nothing , which then puts the local authority in a dilemma and in the sense its allocated sites are now seen to be some form second status . |
| 6 | Early approaches which saw the state as the' instrument' or tool of the dominant class , faithfully tending to its needs , were soon seen to be inadequate . |
| 7 | Christopher Gill ( Member for Ludlow and a Midlands businessman ) , as has been mentioned in Chapter 6 , has concerned himself for a long time with what were once seen to be obscure constitutional issues of subsidiarity . |
| 8 | Understandably , I was quite staggered and overjoyed to find , in the West Riding , very many primary schools where the creative energies of children were demonstrably seen to be central to their experience and learning . |
| 9 | Compromise is often seen to be weak and commitment to the decision reflects that view . |
| 10 | The emancipation of the poor and oppressed is thus made part of a civilizing process , which is often seen to be conditional on assimilating their demands to the discourses of humanism and rationalism . |
| 11 | Otherwise the general structure is readily seen to be reminiscent of DC . |
| 12 | Even the repetition in parallel of examples from different spheres of experience ( " rose … velvet … flour … wit … head " ) enforces the generality of a didactic principle which is otherwise seen to be particular . |
| 13 | Each of the factors known to have importance in depression are therefore seen to be contributory and not capable of acting alone in bringing about an episode of depression . |
| 14 | Child-centred education , at least in the Primary schools , was now seen to be respectable . |