Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [be] seen to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Substituting into the right-hand side of ( 8–47 ) , and using ( 8–49 ) and ( 8–50 ) , it may be seen to be proportional to . |
| 2 | For instance , what the Harlequins are doing with Troy Coker at the moment may be legal but it bears no relation to what the law should be or to what it should be seen to be . |
| 3 | Now play some music and observe the l.e.d. — it should be seen to be varying in brightness gently with the music . |
| 4 | Not only is it doing well , it should be seen to be doing well . |
| 5 | What we need to be certain about is that whatever society is involved in or whatever organisation is involved in balloting that it should be seen to be done properly . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ … and of all the jewels — the Diamond Waterfall — it must be seen to be believed … ’ |
| 8 | ( And if the 1.5–2 million surplus workers now in jobs were added , it would be seen to be catastrophic . ) |
| 9 | Mythopoeic thinking will fade away because it will be seen to be , as Max Muller called it , " a disease of language " . |
| 10 | I have no doubt that , when the time comes and we push our tax through , it will be seen to be fairer than the Labour alternative . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The document is especially interesting in retrospect because it can be seen to be a fairly crude thought about the need to escape the deadening effects of 16+ examining . |
| 13 | Having examined Christianity , he recognizes that if it is true ( as it claims to be and as the third level promises to show how it can be seen to be ) , it does provide the necessary answer . |
| 14 | Though the panther 's coat looks totally black , in certain lights it can be seen to be patterned with even darker spots . |
| 15 | Finally , the particle hmm is not dismissable as just a " performance error " or a " filled pause " ; it has specific interactional functions , best explicated in terms of the system for taking turns at speaking in conversation , where it can be seen to be ( amongst other things ) a turn-holding device ( see Chapter 6 ) . |