Example sentences of "[be] [adv] seen " 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 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Certain kinds of object are better seen if they are lit from below . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Unlike the trams , they are only seen during the summer season . |
| 24 | Yet these same people may have great sources of energy which are only seen in non-career activities . |
| 25 | It is only on these rare occasions that I see zander fighting deep down in the water for most are only seen at the netting stage due to the colour of the water that they are generally caught in . |
| 26 | The shamanic practices we have investigated are rightly seen as an archaic mysticism . |
| 27 | Men are somehow seen as more in need . |
| 28 | Men who stray are somehow seen as more exciting and desirable than good old Mr Steady ( remember how Paddy Ashdown 's poll popularity grew after he 'd ‘ confessed ’ ) . |
| 29 | Playing football , telling a joke or making model aeroplanes are normally seen as second-order experiences , unless one happens to be a professional footballer , a comedian or a model aeroplane manufacturer . |
| 30 | The phenotypic effects of a gene are normally seen as all the effects that it has on the body in which it sits . |