Example sentences of "[noun sg] be seen to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Traditional music and hymnody are seen to be for an older audience . |
| 2 | ‘ It is important that laws drawn up at community level are seen to be applied in an effective and consistent manner throughout the community . ’ |
| 3 | If their commitment and reliability are seen to be less than that of a paid worker then the stereotype will be reinforced and the many totally committed and reliable volunteers will be misjudged . |
| 4 | Even when a building is relatively plain inside , as time passes all historic finishes and fabric are seen to be of greater significance ; so it is desirable to preserve as much of the original interior as possible . |
| 5 | Every problem or alien thing can by a creative expansion of the mind be seen to be part of a larger whole within the mind . |
| 6 | The intention of the parties entering upon a partnership is seen to be of paramount importance . |
| 7 | A more marginal case is where the defendant is seen to be raising his fists in anticipation of the fight . |
| 8 | The chosen design of an individual gear is seen to be successful only if it not only meshes with the next gear in the train but also contributes to the selection of the desired gearbox ratios . |
| 9 | When the distribution of revenue is seen to be equitable , one would expect to see this intransigence diminish and with it doubts about the commitment of the UK to the EC . |
| 10 | Professor Parker shows that this is not always a matter of dispassionate assessment but may turn on whether the research is seen to be delivering ‘ good ’ news or ‘ bad ’ news . |
| 11 | Appraisal is seen to be principally the activity of applied linguistics ( or that branch of it that concerns itself with language teaching ) and application ( as defined here ) the principal activity of language teaching . |
| 12 | My blackness was seen to be a public and political fact , whereas my gayness was seen as a purely personal matter . |
| 13 | Thus the hunt was on for heads of functions who could deliver results , and executive search was seen to be the only truly effective way to actually define and attract this key talent . |
| 14 | Of the four factors , a confiding tie with a husband or lover was seen to be the most important , in that this could protect against depression whether or not any one of the other three vulnerability factors was present . |
| 15 | German industry was seen to be a major threat to the European powers and to established patterns of Atlantic trade . |
| 16 | CONCERN as to whether the parish council were seen to be fully behind the scheme to build a replacement sports pavilion at Four Marks recreation ground were expressed at the council 's meeting on Tuesday last week . |
| 17 | And if a boy is seen to be too concerned with his appearance , he gets called , amongst other things , a ‘ poofter ’ . |
| 18 | A joint scholarship funded by the artist 's widow Pilar and by Sotheby 's worth Pta10 million will be awarded to artists and students whose work is seen to be close to that of Miró . |
| 19 | I always was attacked on the grounds that the world I wrote about did n't exist and it 's only in the last five to ten years here in Ireland , that my work is seen to be actually true . |
| 20 | In the drawing the arrow is seen to be pulling inwards the boundary of the information field . |
| 21 | Even when drastic revision is seen to be necessary and accepted , the point in time at which to conduct this extensive review can be difficult to select . |
| 22 | If the expert is seen to be incompetent ( eg. if an accountant does not seem to provide sensible information ) or if his area of expertise is not widely acknowledged ( which is often the case with personnel department staff ) he will have little or no expert power . |
| 23 | Admittedly the vicious cycle of police militarization and public alienation is seen to be kicked into play by the economic crumbling of the inner city , but thereafter the weight of the explanation is placed on inadequate ( or over-heavy ) policing . |
| 24 | The head , body and arms open out boldly in such a way that the performer is seen to be fully revealed to all as an honest , sincere person who has no need to dissemble . |
| 25 | Because the Council is seen to be independent of government and political parties , it is a trusted source of objective comment on how policy can affect business conditions in Scotland . |
| 26 | The phasor potential difference across the capacitance C lags 90° behind the phasor potential difference VR across the resistance R , assuming negligible loading of the output taken between terminals P and O , while All of these aspects are maintained in the phasor diagram of figure 8.12(b) and its geometry is seen to be such that the point P moves over a circle , centre O , as the resistance R is varied . |
| 27 | They thought that Woonerven were safer , but the principal benefit was seen to be the bigger play areas and the environmental improvements . |
| 28 | Divorce was seen to be harder on the women than the men , who could get out of their family responsibilities so much more easily with divorce than without it . |
| 29 | The first wave approach to NHS management was seen to be increasingly inappropriate to the needs of the service and society at large . |
| 30 | The earliest evidence of modification was seen to be disarticulation of the skull bones and loss of teeth from the jaws ( particularly of unrooted microtine teeth ) . |