Example sentences of "[adv] see [prep] [be] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Example In an essay on an eighteenth-century play , which has argued that the women in the play are generally seen to be a source of disruption or confusion , you could conclude by asking whether women are general sources of disruption , broadly understood , in eighteenth-century drama . |
| 2 | The exaltation of pure science is thus seen to be a defence against the invasion of norms which limit directions of potential advance and threaten the stability and continuance of scientific research as a valued activity . |
| 3 | Under the Net and Lord of the Flies are too philosophical to be called angry , Golding ( in any case ) was always seen to be a spirit apart , and a few of these authors were strikingly young at their moment of first success . |
| 4 | She wondered who had been reading so recently on the carefully made bed , or if this fat book , which she now saw to be a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories , were a relic of the past summer , and the maid , or whoever cleared the house , was devotedly keeping her employer 's place . |
| 5 | Space-time as a whole is then seen to be a patchwork of such freely falling frames . |