Example sentences of "be seen to [be] [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 In other words , the focus of Gironella 's attention is neither historically nor iconographically arbitrary , although in some ways his reworkings of the paintings of others could be seen to be simply an extension of a fairly conventional activity .
2 Appraisal is seen to be principally the activity of applied linguistics ( or that branch of it that concerns itself with language teaching ) and application ( as defined here ) the principal activity of language teaching .
3 Briefly , then , for we shall be returning to this same point later in the book , it can be said that the performance mode itself can be protective , either because it is seen to be mainly a technical or intellectual task , or because the dramatic form is powerful enough to enhance whatever the participants ' contribution might be .
4 Thus in stage 1 the task of analysing the market and answering the question ‘ what business are we in ? ’ is seen to be mainly the province of the marketing function .
5 Thus in stage 1 the task of analysing the market and answering the question ‘ what business are we in ? ’ is seen to be mainly the province of the marketing function .
6 It was seen to be not an excrescence on the body politic , having no bearing upon its general health , but an organic disease … a running sore that affected the entire fabric of society , a morass exhaling a miasma that poisoned the healthy elements of industry .
7 The ‘ star system ’ , promoted and hyped by the media , was seen to be largely a male preserve .
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