Example sentences of "be seen [prep] be the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The fabric of our society would be seen to be the ridiculous thing it is .
2 Some caputs can be seen to be the logical successors to Roman and pre-Roman sites , the latter remaining as hillforts which may have been reoccupied in post-Roman times .
3 Even the notorious " one consonant or two ? " problem can sometimes be solved this way : " reccommend " can be seen to be the wrong spelling because the word is made by adding the prefix " re " to the word " commend " .
4 For that God has been conceived as male , and that biblical teaching which arose out of a patriarchal society has been held to be the revelation of God , must surely be seen to be the underlying facts of western culture which have led to discrimination against women .
5 This can immediately be seen to be the obvious solution which , on its own , gives rise to the Kasner metrics as will be shown in the next section .
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