Example sentences of "[prep] [be] see [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where possible , therefore , this is work to be avoided because of the risk of being seen as incompetent . |
| 2 | Swimming defiantly against the tides of the times , Moonshake place much emphasis on their lyrics and thus run the risk of being seen as old-fashioned . |
| 3 | Were they to be realised , patronage might not disappear entirely but it would wither substantially as a result of being seen as increasingly unnecessary and underhand . |
| 4 | She finished her letter by saying that this must seem a very small matter to people suffering serious illnesses but she resented not feeling able to complain because of her fear of being seen as childish or neurotic . |
| 5 | In contrast popular dissenting tracts frequently insist on a strong separate identity , suspicious of being seen as formally composed and keen to assert scriptural language as a key to asserting their own experience . |
| 6 | I dressed in black to reduce the chance of being seen and could n't believe my luck when I found that the house opposite his was unoccupied , with big bushes in the front garden that I could hide behind . |
| 7 | ‘ Am I okay , here ? ’ she said , and Coco/Jeanette said , ‘ Sure , ’ and pointed to a place alongside her where Lucy could stand and see a part of the performance without any risk of being seen or getting in the way . |
| 8 | On beaches , vulnerable plover chicks , not yet able to fly , crouch low and motionless , the colour of their down so close to that of the pebbles around them that their major hazard comes , not from being seen and eaten , but from not being seen and trodden on . |
| 9 | What we have done is we have erm been able to utilise some A C T capacity or generate some A C T capacity within one of the subsidiaries within the group um the reason for highlighting it highlighting it is not particularly to make a song and dance about it but is particularly to say that on the cash flow statement there is this in-flood and it is a one off in-flood we 're not going to be seeing that being brought forward every year , but basically what it is is we have profits in previous elements of the group which enabled us to generate A C T capacity enabled us to off set this A C T which we paid on dividends and bringing forward earlier than we would otherwise have done . |
| 10 | So you know it 's all I 'm meant to be seeing that Heather one day this week but I have n't rung her . |
| 11 | The new street elevation proposed by the architects ( Waterhouse Ripley Adie Button ) has been sensitively treated ; however , the extension to the north will necessitate diluting much of the pub 's evocative and cosy proportions , and it remains to be seen whether the design of the newly-created bar areas survives comparison with the adjacent historic interiors . |
| 12 | It remains to be seen whether they will still be in business to take the show to London in April ; it looks as if the outcome of the Northern group may rest on the Roses game later in the month . |
| 13 | There have been some impressive cases of increases in productivity , notably British Airways , British Leyland , and British Steel , which have shed workers , but it remains to be seen whether the improvement will be durable or a once-only case of firms shaking out the least efficient workers . |
| 14 | Today it remains to be seen whether Museveni 's essentially centralist approach will be more successful than its predecessors . |
| 15 | It remains to be seen whether either can bounce back , and whether Saatchi and Saatchi will soon be fighting off a rather more vigorous takeover bid than Mrs Thatcher faced this week . |
| 16 | It remains to be seen whether the role of unfancied underdogs suits Romania at Murrayfield as their manager appears to think . |
| 17 | But it remains to be seen whether NFC is a throw-back to the 1970s or a model for the 1990s . |
| 18 | If remains to be seen whether this will be implemented . |
| 19 | It remains to be seen whether this suggestion will become law , but the only really confident prediction must be that so long as capitalism remains , trusts will continue to change and develop so as to meet changes in social conditions and the tax structure . |
| 20 | It remained to be seen whether her daughter could follow her example . |
| 21 | It awaits to be seen whether German social workers will find a way forward beyond the horizon drawn by this Act as they managed to do with the previous Act . |
| 22 | At the time of writing , however — 1990 — it remains to be seen whether the necessary sluices and barrier will be built . |
| 23 | ( It remains to be seen whether the ESO is seen as a ‘ sanction ’ ) . |
| 24 | It remains to be seen whether similar restrictions or limits will be placed on these public rights to information . |
| 25 | It remains to be seen whether vaccines or chemotherapy will play a greater part in controlling the human immunodeficiency virus . |
| 26 | Recently a new group of drugs , cytosine and adenosine arabinoside , have been used with considerable success against generalized viral illness , particularly in people whose natural defence mechanisms are below par , but it remains to be seen whether it is feasible to use them on localized herpetic infection . |
| 27 | It remains to be seen whether at this eleventh hour for the English countryside , those other giants , the forestry and the agriculture industries , are also prepared to take seriously a wider frame of reference . |
| 28 | It remains to be seen whether the restructuring will save money , or merely shift essential expenditure between agencies , or simply reduce available services . |
| 29 | It remains to be seen whether it will suffer the fate of numerous other initiatives on the inner cities and fade into obscurity . |
| 30 | But it remains to be seen whether this somewhat confused mixture of ideologies represents a realistic and coherent guiding force for the type of global change in human values that is so urgently needed at this time . |