Example sentences of "are seen [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Lipkin , during the development of colonic adenomas , several stages of abnormalities in cell kinetics are seen between normal and adenomatous crypts while maintaining a normal cellular morphology . |
| 2 | All the ugly sheds along the riverfront have been removed and the newly cleaned oatmeal brickwork and fish-scale roofs , complete with gilded dolphins , are seen to full advantage . |
| 3 | Intermediate values are seen for tawny owls and great grey owls ( 50–60 per cent ) , and high values for the owls that also showed greatest damage to the maxilla , the short-eared owl , spotted eagle owl and European eagle owl ( 80–90 per cent ) . |
| 4 | Raised levels of circulating lactoferrin are seen during active inflammatory disease . |
| 5 | And this is related , for example , to Daly 's scorn for ‘ tokenism ’ — for those women who participate in what are seen as patriarchal institutions . |
| 6 | In the 20th century , following two world wars , the great depression , a few instances of genocide , and the prospect of the total destruction of world civilisation , that is the logical conclusion of the 19th century views , existence and evolution are seen as cooperative ventures , a matter of peaceful progress , balance , reciprocity . |
| 7 | If lifetime employment and seniority wages are seen as key distinguishing characteristics of the Japanese labour market then it has to be recognized that they are far from universal features . |
| 8 | Many facilities that are seen as key characteristics of an exchange , such as standardised contracts , transparency , liquidity and screen-trading , all can and do exist in off-exchange markets , such as forex and Brent . |
| 9 | The US is surely keener to deal with the EC as a bloc and with those countries , like Germany , which are seen as key players within it . |
| 10 | The causes of poor organizational performance are seen as poor communications , bad supervisory practices , low levels of group satisfaction and cohesion . |
| 11 | It concerns evil spirits which are seen as rebellious creatures of Yahweh , bent on wrecking his purposes but ultimately subject to his control . |
| 12 | Young male groups in primitive societies are seen as early proof of the formation of co-operative groups in which individuals learn to work in the interests of the wider group . |
| 13 | Organizations are seen as rational instruments for realizing explicit goals , with different parts that can be modified so as to increase efficiency ( Gouldner 1959 ) . |
| 14 | He refines his argument in the light of evidence that nowadays the demand curve for a company 's stock is extremely elastic : ‘ [ t ] hus even large purchases of stock will not necessarily have an immediate and noticeable effect on its price since other stocks are seen as perfect substitutes . ’ |
| 15 | Much more problematic , in practical terms , is the resistance by public bodies to funding what are seen as subversive cliques . |
| 16 | I had fewer than a hundred rounds for the gun which I kept solely as a deterrent for those remote places where cruising yachtsmen are seen as plump victims , ripe for pillaging , and the Webley offered me good protection for , though the gun was over seventy years old , it was massively built and frighteningly powerful . |
| 17 | There has been a tendency generally , but particularly in the years since 1979 , to disregard what are seen as private troubles ( family poverty , poor marital relationships , isolation ) and to consider primarily public issues , e.g. dependency of lone parents on welfare benefits , reception of children into care because of homelessness or family breakdown and juvenile crime . |
| 18 | Most policy is incremental in character , involving marginal adjustments to what has gone before , and is motivated to correct what are seen as undesirable consequences of previous policies . |
| 19 | They are seen as deaf ‘ camp-followers ’ . |
| 20 | These latter are seen as central aspects in the perception of beauty . |
| 21 | The balance between gaining and losing is by no means even ; many infrequent users of search are seen as prime poaching grounds , whereas companies constantly recruiting may not necessarily be losing people , but experiencing rapid growth . |
| 22 | Jews or Zionists are seen as prime movers in a plot to take over the world , by destroying nations and manipulating the minds of ordinary people . |
| 23 | Another reason why Satan and demons are more usually rejected by modern scholarship is because they are seen as mythological explanations of realities now explainable by science . |
| 24 | Simple majorities are seen as sufficient basis for group decisions , which the minority have to accept . |
| 25 | At best , heterosexuality and homosexuality are seen as psychological variants , a perspective which homogenizes these orientations , underplays the social differences which accompany them , and takes no account of political lesbianism . |
| 26 | We have moved away from such remedies as being too brutal for a humane society and nowadays those who advocate them are seen as blimpish relics of an imperialist , authoritarian society which favoured cold baths and weals on the buttocks as character forming . |
| 27 | Taxation of income , personal expenditure and wealth are usually viewed as direct taxation , whereas taxes on the sale of goods and services are seen as indirect taxation . |
| 28 | With regard to the Tory hierarchy Salisbury , Balfour , and even the supposedly dirigiste -minded Alfred Milner and Joseph Chamberlain , are seen as staunch anti-collectivists . |
| 29 | Prescriptivists are seen as blind adherents to outdated norms of formal usage . |
| 30 | For witchcraft as exemplified by a fear of castration , and the Camisard revolt as exemplified by hysterical symptoms , are seen as irrational practices . |