Example sentences of "[be] seen to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents are also totally against shutting schools which are seen to be unsuccessful an integral point of Education Secretary John Patten 's new Bill . |
| 2 | Children are seen to be innocent of life 's problems and should somehow not have to face all the difficulties of death . |
| 3 | Traditional views of family life are seen to be unsupported by research findings , but research can assist the identification and development of policies and good practice which can help children at risk and in need to become good parents in their turn . |
| 4 | It is also necessary , in areas where student members are small , to select experts who are seen to be neutral and do not have a conflict of interest with the college . |
| 5 | Male carers are often omitted from detailed study because they are seen to be unimportant or assumed to be so few in number . |
| 6 | These linear relationships are plotted in Fig. 1 where both the consumption and saving relationships are seen to be straight lines . |
| 7 | When the arm spines are cleaned in bleach the smaller ones are seen to be thin and only slightly rugose with the area of attachment reinforced while the larger spine has an almost smooth shaft with a multipointed head . |
| 8 | But certain images are seen to be universal , such as that of the holy mother and child . |
| 9 | Thus , unionised groups of workers are seen to be leap-frogging one over the other in the struggle to keep real wages rising . |
| 10 | She proposes an alternative model of mind in which feelings are paid sufficient attention , and in which , through language , they are seen to be intelligent rather than rational , non-rational or irrational . |
| 11 | The various parts of society are seen to be interrelated and taken together they form a complete system . |
| 12 | The move to clamp down on specialist valuations is another step in the campaign by the Chartered Accountants Joint Ethics Committee to ensure that auditors are seen to be independent . |
| 13 | The primary concern of the judiciary , said Lord Hailsham , must be ‘ to retain the respect of the public for their independence which involves not merely their real independence of mind , but also the belief which the public can have that they are seen to be independent in every respect ’ . |
| 14 | Agreement with the objectives will help to ensure that they are seen to be important and that activity will be directed towards their achievement . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , increased delegation will depend on government carving out more areas of activity for which authorities are seen to be responsible , and central intervention is improper . |
| 16 | However , there are certain qualities which are seen to be peculiar to physics and these are crucial to our understanding of the construction of physics as a discipline . |
| 17 | Carpentier , in particular , explores Latin America 's relation to the Western world , notably in Explosion in a Cathedral , which portrays Caribbean society against the background of the French Revolution , and , in all of his works , implanted European systems are seen to be inappropriate to the American environment . |
| 18 | If competition is perceived to be open , the ‘ rules ’ are seen to be fair , and the determinants of success are within the competitors ' control , competition can be extremely fruitful . |
| 19 | in this issue , that EC merger policy , even since the introduction of the Merger Regulation , has been seen to be ineffective . |
| 20 | For 60 years the Council has been seen to be independent of government and political parties . |
| 21 | For the first time C&P has been seen to be green through a prominent presence on the ICI stand at a ‘ green ’ exhibition at Olympia , London . |
| 22 | A cultural change is in progress ; whereas deviant accounting practices had previously attracted muted adverse comment — even perhaps a degree of respect for the ingenuity sometimes shown — the standard demanded by the Panel has been seen to be exacting , requiring the spirit of the standards to be followed in addition to the detailed rules . |
| 23 | But he maintained that the trust had to be seen to be separate from the health authority . |
| 24 | The barbs can be seen to be separate branches lined with polyps . |
| 25 | Such textual analysis , undertaken with a feminist pair of eyes , is uncovering the depth at which sexism must be seen to be present in the text . |
| 26 | The bishops will betray that which is entrusted to them ; and the irresponsible silliness of the Synod will be seen to be sinful . |
| 27 | In the cities , where competition is intense , to be seen to be involved with clients at the top of the commercial ( and to a lesser degree social ) tree , publicity will take very different forms , but whether it comprises the full page recruitment advertisement or a high ranking in some statistical table devised by the editors of a legal journal , a bigger than average spread in a legal directory or an article by one of its partners explaining some development unique to the firm , the message will be the same : we are professional people of the highest calibre who run their practice efficiently and with success ; we have earned the respect of our fellow professionals and the esteem of our clients who are themselves of comparable stature to ourselves . |
| 28 | It is here that theorisations which see the nuclear family as a means for controlling the working class in the ‘ interests of capitalism ’ can be seen to be inadequate . |
| 29 | In Opposition , of course , you have to criticise harder but that criticism has to be seen to be reasonable if you are to succeed . |
| 30 | Rural clients ' problems can therefore be seen to be similar to their city counterparts , but the rural advisers ' problems are different . |