Example sentences of "be seen to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His leading characters are seen to be , in some sense , petty and peripheral : but peripheral to what ? |
| 2 | Certainly the social sciences are seen to be the arbiters of revolutionary change which might somehow dismantle the police institution and its processes , and this has led it to negate the reforming social scientists , keeping them as outsiders beyond the system . |
| 3 | Maybe our weakness is our strength , thought Cameron — we are seen to be democrats , nothing like the Prince 's bands of warriors . |
| 4 | That cultural regulation , as we have seen , is controlled by men , for ( and this brings me to the third point ) , within this scheme of thought , woman herself is placed more fully within the realm of nature than man in consequence of the fact that more of her time and her body are seen to be taken up with the natural processes surrounding reproduction of the species . |
| 5 | Children are seen to be innocent of life 's problems and should somehow not have to face all the difficulties of death . |
| 6 | If their discharges are seen to be causing harm they can be liable in the civil courts . |
| 7 | Agreement with the objectives will help to ensure that they are seen to be important and that activity will be directed towards their achievement . |
| 8 | It is an issue both of absolute shortages of the wood .. and the distributions of available wood supplies between different uses and users … its causes are seen to be closely linked to the distribution of economic and political power between classes and social groups which determines who gets how much of a scarce resource . |
| 9 | In some policies the two problems are seen to be combined where the systems of farming collectively called shifting cultivation have reached a point where their carrying capacity has been exceeded , and fallow periods have become so short that degradation and erosion have set in ( Allan 1967 ) . |
| 10 | The beneficiaries are not small farmers except in a few isolated cases where costs and benefits are seen to be equally shared ( e.g. in Sukhomaj Village which is discussed in the CSE report , p. 14 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Opposition from vested interests will be intense , but no one should underestimate the power of the goodwill that survives to be tapped as soon as politicians are seen to be moving in the right direction . |
| 14 | When the sheet is examined in the electron microscope filaments are seen to be localized at the upper surface . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | With this policy rewards are seen to be under your control — not his or hers to manipulate . |
| 17 | This state of detachment is in some ways like the discrimination of Shankara in which all things are seen to be the same though they possess the illusion of being different . |
| 18 | They are more likely to do this if they are seen to be making a direct and positive contribution to the school 's consultative and decision-making processes , rather than observing from a distance in a way that underlines the ‘ us-them ’ relationship . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A special feature is the series of transparent overlays supplied , some to generate the moire patterns , others to provide a novel representation of the geometrical illusions , whereby one part of the configuration is separated from the remainder , and the distorted circles are seen to be truly circular , the apparently diverging lines to be truly parallel . |
| 21 | Illustrations are seen to be a motivating factor for poor readers , but they are otherwise considered to be a distraction and ‘ do not themselves make the reading level of the prose any lower ’ ( ibid . |
| 22 | House sites are seen to be a scarce resource , by both Shetlanders and incomers , basically because the amount of sites given planning permission by the local authority is ever decreasing . |
| 23 | This means that we are seen to be thinking with our partner rather than thinking against them . |
| 24 | Thus , unionised groups of workers are seen to be leap-frogging one over the other in the struggle to keep real wages rising . |
| 25 | Thus , unions are seen to be engaging in a conflict with firms ’ managements as part of the class struggle between workers and capitalists , with workers aiming to raise the share of wages in the national income and capitalists aiming to raise the share of profits . |
| 26 | You are seen to be pulling a large load across the stage . |
| 27 | As far as I am concerned the whole point of Punch is to attack those in authority when they are seen to be acting in a way not worthy of respect . |
| 28 | Consequently , enterprises are seen to be like the machines they contain and people have to relate to them accordingly . |
| 29 | Organizations are seen to be not unlike armies engaged in battle with the armies of other enterprises . |
| 30 | 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 . |