Example sentences of "[be] [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is an argument of increasing popularity with government and some of the advisers to government , that since comprehensive schools are widely seen to do worse for their pupils than selective schools in terms of examination results , and since so many people , if they can afford it , are removing their children from the maintained comprehensive sector to independent schools ( which are broadly speaking selective ) a way must be found for government to supply non-comprehensive schools , in the interests of the country as a whole . |
| 2 | The FDA 's audacious new tactics gained massive media coverage and are widely seen as only the beginning of a serious assault on products whose labelling is thought to violate federal law . |
| 3 | Thus a considerable proportion both of paintings and drawings has recently been widely seen . |
| 4 | In the case of Elvis , this problem is particularly striking because within the rock discourse he has been widely seen as both the music 's first hero and its most prominent backslider . |
| 5 | This has been widely seen as an area where employment can be created and economic vitality encouraged . |
| 6 | Some , like the hardline godfather Chen Yun , are so infirm they are rarely seen in public . |
| 7 | It is interesting that holdings of libraries of the Established Church are rarely seen . |
| 8 | Grey Plovers are rarely seen away from the coast in Sussex , but there have been six such records since 1947 in March , April , May , October ( three together ) , November , and December . |
| 9 | Because of the hostile environment for which they were built and in which they excel , Beavers are rarely seen by us ‘ soft ’ folk from civilization ; yet who knows how many are still soldiering on ( Beavering away ? ) in the jungles , mountains , deserts and tundra of the world ? |
| 10 | The royal couple are rarely seen together outside official engagements . |
| 11 | Although the couple are rarely seen in public together — Lewis went solo to the Golden Globe awards , though Brad accompanied her to the Oscars — Pitt says it 's not a conscious choice to avoid the paparazzi , they just never go out . |
| 12 | Lochan Fada , Fionn Loch and a score of other water expanses , jewels in sunlight , sullen under cloud , are rarely seen . |
| 13 | Caecilians are rarely seen for they seldom come to the surface except at night and even if they are accidentally dug up , they may well be mistaken for brightly coloured earthworms . |
| 14 | Snow algae are widespread in alpine and polar regions , but require persistent banks of melting snow to form spectacular coloured patches ; they are rarely seen , for example , on the colder coasts or interior ice-cap of Antarctica . |
| 15 | Although they have a base in Hanover House , they are rarely seen here as their workload of visits increases . |
| 16 | The customer services team are rarely seen by customers but maintain close contact with every one of them over the telephone . |
| 17 | Despite the prevalence of patent D. arnfieldi infection in donkeys , overt clinical signs are rarely seen ; however , on close examination slight hyperpnoea and harsh lung sounds may be detected . |
| 18 | We are constantly seeing TV programmes and newspaper/magazine articles that tell us how bad some things are for us . |
| 19 | Mythological stories about them suggest they are necessarily seen in this simplistic way to reaffirm to ‘ real polises ’ that it is they who are the true inhabitants of the pragmatic world of conflict and action . |
| 20 | In some areas , however , a different model of teamwork has evolved in which the tasks of assessment and management are shared , and not all patients are necessarily seen at any time by a psychiatrist . |
| 21 | I get people who I worked with ten years ago in the record business saying ‘ Been down to see City lately ? ’ — but ten years ago if you 'd have said to them ‘ How did City get on ? ’ they would have said ‘ I do n't go to soccer , I 'm into meditation ’ . |
| 22 | When I went to that rodeo with Jerry and I was n't home until after midnight , Harry did n't even ask me why I was so late — and he knew the time because he 'd been down to see if Islay 's foal was better . |
| 23 | that I 've been down to see it . |
| 24 | Yussuf had been put in the cells to cool off and Owen had not long before been down to see him . |
| 25 | ‘ We have been down to see the plans and were told we were not consulted because we were not affected , ’ she added . |
| 26 | And I bet he 's been down to see ducks . |
| 27 | You been down to see them recently ? |
| 28 | As a translator he was modest , exhorting and beseeching those of his readers ‘ who are better seen in the Scriptures than I , and have higher gifts of grace to interpret the Scripture ’ to correct his work . |
| 29 | Certain kinds of object are better seen if they are lit from below . |
| 30 | It has been claimed by some writers that distinctive feature analysis is not irrelevant to the study of language learning , and that pronunciation difficulties experienced by learners are better seen as due to the need to learn a particular feature or combination of features than as the absence of particular phonemes . |