Example sentences of "can be see [prep] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Explanations of this kind have a certain political attractiveness — by making training , selection and deployment the target of reform , things can be done , they can be seen to be done , and they can be done relatively cheaply too . |
| 2 | The only council member who can be seen to be motivated by hostility to the family is William , lord Hastings . |
| 3 | The only council member who can be seen to be motivated by hostility to the family is William , lord Hastings . |
| 4 | When a thin section of a basalt is examined under a microscope , it can be seen to be made up of a closely-felted mass of interlocking needle-like crystals of feldspar , a millimetre or so long , with a scattering of more colourful tiny crystals of olivine and pyroxene and some black opaque specks of iron oxides . |
| 5 | In the final section ( 3.7 ) , we give a table of quantitative data from these three passages , so that our analysis can be seen to be based on " hard evidence " . |
| 6 | The singularity occurs when , and thus can be seen to be associated with the focusing singularity in region IV . |
| 7 | The more sociological aspects of psychoanalytic theory appear now to be based on firmer foundations , for the theory of the development of the person can be seen to be grounded in the therapeutic encounters of psychoanalysis . |
| 8 | Hunter ( 1980 ) sees parallels with other pressures for change : ‘ arguments for participation in the classroom can be seen to be linked with the growing agitation for community participation in politics , industrial democracy and the feminist and anti-racialist movements ’ ( pp. 231 — 2 ) . |