Example sentences of "was seen [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was seen to be the democratic process at work . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | As priests controlled the local school directly , this was seen to be a direct attack on their role in the school system . |
| 4 | The task of the nervous system was seen to be a computational one . |
| 5 | The Guardian commented that these sorts of deals ‘ would simply prompt further government investigations into the industry , unless the pub owning company was seen to be genuinely independent of the brewer ’ . |
| 6 | The central issue was seen to be the relationship between the growth or contraction of the money supply and the pattern of national income and expenditure . |
| 7 | Whatever the book 's faults might be , it was seen to be an original contribution of power , and that a new force in Christian thinking had appeared among the Churches in England . |
| 8 | When policy was seen to be hurting the colonies , some protested ; but even the many who accepted that Britain 's relations with its colonies were unsatisfactory saw this as a relatively minor blemish on an otherwise desirable system . |
| 9 | Payton had been hauled down by Penney , so justice was seen to be done when he hit Mohan 's free-kick past Veysey . |
| 10 | With a revised scale for its deficiency payments , in effect a reduction of 50% grant-aid to WEA classes in the county , the LEA with only marginally increased costs was seen to be acceding to public demand for continuity and simultaneously responding to the recommendation of the Carnegie Trustees . |
| 11 | Avoiding artificial lighting and air conditioning was seen to be important in reducing the use of electricity , not only to keep down running costs but also for wider , environmental reasons . |
| 12 | The feudal bond of duty and loyalty was seen to be almost as strong as , and certainly similar to , the ties of blood relationship . |
| 13 | His disciplinarian approach was seen to be at odds with West Ham 's tradition as a freewheeling and creative team . |
| 14 | This was a crucial consideration , especially for the unskilled , because it was seen to be their only asset . |
| 15 | Schools where the size of the delegated budget was seen to be adequate , or even generous , were able to take more steps along the path to staff involvement in decision-making than those with a reduced budget . |
| 16 | A ‘ devolved ’ school was seen to be meeting local needs more quickly . |
| 17 | In so far as management budgeting was seen to be a failure , it was because it was perceived to be too much of a finance-led exercise which did not adequately tackle the organisational and behavioural issues . |
| 18 | The first wave approach to NHS management was seen to be increasingly inappropriate to the needs of the service and society at large . |
| 19 | There was seen to be an urgent need to give much greater recognition to the potential contribution of NHS managers . |
| 20 | The process was seen to be too cumbersome and costly to provide much useful guidance to purchasers , who , in any case , preferred to back their own judgement . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | In the Reich the various German patriotic societies were designed to combat ‘ Jewish influence ’ , which was seen to be both ethnically alien and racially inferior , and also to be at the very heart of the economic change that at once afflicted and enriched German society . |
| 23 | In Germany this proximity was seen to be entirely natural . |
| 24 | German industry was seen to be a major threat to the European powers and to established patterns of Atlantic trade . |
| 25 | The greatest area of risk was seen to be the managerial issue of integrating AI applications into the existing organisation and IT environment . |
| 26 | They thought that Woonerven were safer , but the principal benefit was seen to be the bigger play areas and the environmental improvements . |
| 27 | Proposals for private motorised travel were , on the other hand , very different , for this mode was seen to be at the root of many of the traffic and environmental problems of the experimental areas and so every effort was to be made to curb the excesses of its use . |
| 28 | A circulation plan that interrupted movement through the imposition of frequent detours and culs-de-sac was seen to be stressful for drivers and likely to lead to detours through neighbouring streets . |
| 29 | On opening it was seen to be empty . |
| 30 | The evolutionary and thermoregulatory relationship between birds and dinosaurs was seen to be strengthened in 1989 after an examination of the best preserved fossils of a pterosaur 's wings . |