Example sentences of "[be] seen to [be] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are few examples of their being scattered extensively and repeatedly used within a single text ; where this does happen , as for instance in Les quatre Souhais Saint Martin , the practice can readily be justified by its thematic significance ( on which see further below ) , as again can be seen to be the case with the cornucopia of excrement that Robin drops on to the deservedly victimized Jouglet . |
| 2 | Referring back to the main circuit diagram , Fig. 2 , resistor R5 can be seen to be the charge resistor for capacitor C3 , whilst a rapid discharge occurs predominantly through R6 . |
| 3 | Freemasons were seen to be the power behind the French Revolution , whose role in contemporary disturbances such as the Russian Revolution had been taken over by the Jews . |
| 4 | Finance was a constant source of tension within the city , and increasingly the city 's problems in this area were seen to be the fault of the Poles . |
| 5 | In The Fox Above and the Fox Below , a greater threat to that identity is seen to be the capitalist , industrial development of recent decades , which has attracted a massive flow of migrants from the countryside to the cities and brought with it an erosion of traditional values and ways of life . |
| 6 | But this is seen to be the reason why forces or energies are transferred or transmitted across what has continually been regarded by so many scientists as ‘ empty space ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The major problem was seen to be the hostility of teachers towards industrial and commercial values and the way in which this deflected ‘ bright ’ , traditionally educated pupils away from industry . |