Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [be] seen " in BNC.

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1 There 's a littleness about it all : again it must not be seen as mere chance that we encounter Swift 's Lilliput on the first page of the novel .
2 Mrs Shakespeare can go too , if she likes , but she must not be seen .
3 The king must not be seen without his clothes .
4 Thus education was to be productive of a ‘ good ’ , politically respectable State ; but it must not be seen as instrumental in any narrow or vocational way .
5 The American writer Leslie Farber has a great deal to say about ‘ the life of suicide ’ , which he insists , ‘ must not be seen as the situation or state of mind which leads to the act , but that situation in which the act-as-possibility , quite apart from whether it eventually occurs or not , has a life of its own . ’
6 ‘ However , the law must not be seen to be an ass .
7 The Chairman of the Chambre Nationale , Yannick Guilloux , said the charges brought against Britain must not be seen as the stand of one European country against another but a bid to harmonise tax regulation , at as low a rate as possible , in order to protect the art market within the EC as a whole .
8 This must not be seen as condoning the random killing of animals ; far from it .
9 Seeing the primal figure is dangerous ; tribesmen avoid the sight of their chief , and God can not and must not be seen by mortals .
10 If people do n't like the message they can discuss it , but the report must not be seen as a whitewash .
11 Dulles agreed that the United States must not be seen to aid colonialists .
12 This should not be seen as a deterrent .
13 This career framework should not be seen as being wholly rigid or fixed .
14 On this basis he maintains that these adults should not be seen ‘ as agents of social control repressing the young — as reductionist social history might suggest — but as agents of socialization preparing them for their future roles as citizens in a society to which most adolescents gave unthinking and willing allegiance ’ .
15 However , perhaps this increase should not be seen as the emergence of local politics , but should more properly be viewed as their re-emergence .
16 These approaches should not be seen as peripheral to the school curriculum but as an integral part of it .
17 Bertram argues that game theory and kin selection should not be seen as alternative explanations ( Nature , vol 302 , p 356 ) .
18 But this should not be seen as a criticism ; the role and scope of audit is somewhat narrowly defined in law , and any change is almost bound to have legal ramifications .
19 ‘ The protector desires that , prior to his coronation , the king should not be seen too frequently in public . ’
20 However , most drama activity should not be seen as leading to a polished end product ; even where this is the result , the most significant educational value of the activity will often have been found in the process that led to that end product .
21 Instead , this increasingly popular element of dominant ideology should not be seen as an expression of social concern for the well-being of older people , but examined for its wider social purpose .
22 In both cases the limitations of vocabulary should not be seen necessarily to imply any lack of ability for abstract thought : these animals are using an alien tool to communicate with a species ( us ) whose intellectual make-up is quite alien to them , so it is hardly surprising that there are comparatively few areas of common ground that can be described using human words .
23 But these two functions should not be seen as entirely discrete .
24 Rights , in other words , should not be seen as ends in themselves .
25 This conclusion should not be seen to reflect callous indifference to individuals who have suffered miserably or fatally at the hands of persons committing ‘ conventional ’ crimes ; their agony is real and should never be ignored .
26 This should not be seen as an attack on a balding old Pole but on the institution he leads — ie the hierarchy of the Catholic Church , whose attitudes towards gays , women and other oppressed groups belong in the dustbin of history as do those of most religious hierarchies .
27 The short-sighted , narrow-minded Education Reform Act should not be seen as ringing the death-knell of teacher reflection and autonomy , but rather as signalling its increasing urgency .
28 ‘ Finally , we would urge that this decision should not be seen as immutable .
29 This can also be shown to be true in BSL , indicating that surface features of languages may be used in different ways to express conceptual material but that these differences should not be seen as deficits .
30 An inspection of the table reveals overlaps between the three trends , and clearly they should not be seen as mutually exclusive .
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