Example sentences of "could [be] seen to be " in BNC.

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1 The visitors could be seen to be bewitched at the learning about the cathedral coming out of such callow lips .
2 In other words , the focus of Gironella 's attention is neither historically nor iconographically arbitrary , although in some ways his reworkings of the paintings of others could be seen to be simply an extension of a fairly conventional activity .
3 The pursuers were keeping up as best they could but held little hope of catching him , though at the first fence on the second circuit — the seventeenth in the race — Red Rum could be seen to be keeping on gamely .
4 There was a heap of rough geological specimens , including two almost spherical stones , a little like cannon balls , one black and one a sulphurous yellow , some ammonites and trilobites , a large crystal ball , a green glass inkwell , the articulated skeleton of a cat , a heap of books , two of which could be seen to be the Divina Commedia and Faust , and an hourglass in a wooden frame .
5 On timeliness alone Electronic Publishing ( EP ) could be seen to be established .
6 These idealised sentences often turn out to be based , in fact , on the conventions of written language in the academic sub-culture and these linguists could be seen to be perpetuating , albeit in more sophisticated terms , the older , ideological conception of writing as the model for speech .
7 Thus , the Report considers the universities mainly in so far as their influence could be seen to be reflected back on the school system examinations and the home .
8 One group of sites could be seen to be more or less contemporary because they produced the same types of tool , while those which produced other types could be shown to be earlier or later in date .
9 Darwin 's finches , for example , could be seen to be extremely interesting only when their affinities were pointed out to him by a taxonomist .
10 But they could be seen to be so " from below " as well as " from above " .
11 As state pension age is different for men and women , the Rules of the Scheme could be seen to be discriminatory .
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