Example sentences of "seen to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | in this issue , that EC merger policy , even since the introduction of the Merger Regulation , has been seen to be ineffective . |
| 2 | Have regard to the workload and the pressures on professional colleagues and subordinates and take appropriate action if these are seen to be such as to constitute abuse of the individual practitioner and/or to jeopardise safe standards of practice . |
| 3 | Lévi-Strauss focuses on the ambivalence which we have already seen to be such a distinctive feature of the Critique , pointing in particular to Sartre 's vacillation between two concepts of dialectical reason . |
| 4 | Yet while nobody can possibly deny the growing , and sometimes dramatic , impact of nationalist , or ethnic , politics , there is one major respect in which the phenomenon today is functionally different from the ‘ nationalism ’ and the ‘ nations ’ which combined nation-state and national economy was plainly a central fact of historical transformation and seen to be such . |
| 5 | Is this because the construction of racialized identities depends on the existence of the Other , while at the same time it is this ‘ alien presence ’ which is seen to be such a threat to identity that its total annihilation is required ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Of course , no matter how explicit these conventional procedures are or how scrupulously they are used , some cases will arise , as the sample cases showed , when the instructions will be seen to be unclear or incomplete . |
| 8 | These linear relationships are plotted in Fig. 1 where both the consumption and saving relationships are seen to be straight lines . |
| 9 | Demands to bring forward the age of retirement come to the fore ; for older people to continue working is seen to be selfish , depriving younger people of opportunity . |
| 10 | This point may sound very obvious , but it is seen to be crucial when one party to the contract is looking for a way to get out of his contractual obligations and is able to seize upon an ill-defined point . |
| 11 | Children are seen to be innocent of life 's problems and should somehow not have to face all the difficulties of death . |
| 12 | Parents are also totally against shutting schools which are seen to be unsuccessful an integral point of Education Secretary John Patten 's new Bill . |
| 13 | If the Christian continuum provided hope for the regenerate individual , it offered a much less satisfying answer to the more general question that had perplexed Job and so many others : why was there so much evil in the world that the Lord had made and seen to be good ? |
| 14 | How can God be seen to be good when one considers what history has been , and what it has meant for women that God has been conceived in primarily male terms ? |
| 15 | Any initial work in multicultural mathematics may be seen to be tokenistic , especially if the only obvious reason for its inclusion is that it represents other cultures . |
| 16 | Something which is seen to be efficient at the moment may not be efficient if the future is taken into consideration — and the other way round . |
| 17 | It is here that theorisations which see the nuclear family as a means for controlling the working class in the ‘ interests of capitalism ’ can be seen to be inadequate . |
| 18 | Early approaches which saw the state as the' instrument' or tool of the dominant class , faithfully tending to its needs , were soon seen to be inadequate . |
| 19 | And the operation must be seen to be multinational , so the UK contingent should ideally be increased to brigade strength — which underlines the case for reprieving the Highland regiments . |
| 20 | Something present in a flash , intuitively seen to be necessary , which can not be otherwise . ’ |
| 21 | Clearly a more concerted approach is seen to be necessary in order to secure property from potential consigners . |
| 22 | Partly because of this distinction in favour of processions at common law , it was seen to be necessary for the police to be given statutory powers to control potentially disruptive processions ( but not meetings ) in the Public Order Act 1936 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Rural clients ' problems can therefore be seen to be similar to their city counterparts , but the rural advisers ' problems are different . |
| 25 | In the light of this passage we can interpret one of Wordsworth 's gnomic sayings — ‘ The Child is Father of the Man ’ — and can understand what the attractive childhood episodes are doing in Books i and ii ; they are now seen to be similar ‘ spots of time … enshrined … for future restoration ’ . |
| 26 | I think at that age one is very concerned to be seen to be similar to one 's peers and hence not to be singled out for differential treatment . |
| 27 | In many spheres of public life justice should be seen to be done as well as be done , and officials should not only be impartial but be seen to be above reproach . |
| 28 | The different approaches are thus seen to be distinct , but perhaps not in conflict ; each approach is seen as an area of specialism , rather than as an area of commitment . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , the crowding together of the poor in slums was seen to be dangerous — debilitating to health and facilitating possibly seditious communication of the kind which had led to the riots in Trafalgar Square in 1886 . |
| 30 | Their increasing interest in the New Testament and the Life of Christ led them to concentrate on poverty and preaching — which previous authorities had seen to be dangerous . |