Example sentences of "be see [prep] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One could argue that since the Institute has to be seen to be acting in the public interest , complete openness along these lines is the only alternative . |
| 2 | Everyone agrees that something will have to be seen to be done before the next annual general meeting in February . |
| 3 | It was always our contention that justice should not only be done but that justice should be seen to be done by the due process of the public inquiry . |
| 4 | The visitors could be seen to be bewitched at the learning about the cathedral coming out of such callow lips . |
| 5 | In the final section ( 3.7 ) , we give a table of quantitative data from these three passages , so that our analysis can be seen to be based on " hard evidence " . |
| 6 | However , morally speaking , the nature of these states can not be seen to be catering for the betterment of the broad masses but the consolidation of a ruling groups power . |
| 7 | He also knew that if Clasper was to be toppled from his influential position as plant convener — which was essential to the long term recovery of the plant — he would have to be seen to be toppled by his own members , acting in their own interests . |
| 8 | The Chairman will take control on behalf of this two colleagues , and the Court will be seen to be run by the Magistrates , and the Clerk will be there as their legal adviser on procedure and any legal points that arise . |
| 9 | To be sure that a patient is truly regaining their health , it is of no value just to know that the symptoms of his complaint have been relieved , rather the focus of his disease has to be seen to be shifting into less important areas , that is , moving down the hierarchy . |
| 10 | Put that the other way round : a China that flunked this test would not only be seen to be throwing in its lot with Asia 's rogue regimes . |
| 11 | Now play some music and observe the l.e.d. — it should be seen to be varying in brightness gently with the music . |
| 12 | It will be a slow journey , in which progress will be seen to be made in stages rather than continuously . |
| 13 | But even Rolls-Royce must be seen to be moving with the times . |
| 14 | In that sense they might be seen to be moving in a different direction from the strongly centralist initiatives in connection with the national curriculum . |
| 15 | The only council member who can be seen to be motivated by hostility to the family is William , lord Hastings . |
| 16 | The only council member who can be seen to be motivated by hostility to the family is William , lord Hastings . |
| 17 | The more sociological aspects of psychoanalytic theory appear now to be based on firmer foundations , for the theory of the development of the person can be seen to be grounded in the therapeutic encounters of psychoanalysis . |
| 18 | Discussions of plays , for instance , can often be seen to be founded on the undeclared assumption that a dramatic figure represents a self ( rather than a vehicle for dramatic ideas ) . |
| 19 | Dr Pertwee says there is no longer a stigma attached to cannabis research in the scientific world , although pharmaceutical companies have been less willing to be seen to be working with cannabis-like substances . |
| 20 | We must try to help ourselves to come to terms with the changes in farming , but if the present position persists , farmers in rural areas will not be seen to be working in line with the avowed aim of my right hon. Friend the Minister of a good environmental policy mixed with good farming . |
| 21 | He wanted the contras to be seen to be dying for their cause , emphasizing both how desperate it was , and how just . |
| 22 | The singularity occurs when , and thus can be seen to be associated with the focusing singularity in region IV . |
| 23 | There is little political controversy attached to the figure of the sovereign , for as Bagehot recognized in the nineteenth century , the successful constitutional monarch should be seen to be removed from politics . |
| 24 | Hunter ( 1980 ) sees parallels with other pressures for change : ‘ arguments for participation in the classroom can be seen to be linked with the growing agitation for community participation in politics , industrial democracy and the feminist and anti-racialist movements ’ ( pp. 231 — 2 ) . |
| 25 | The two can also be seen to be linked in that the principles involved in the doctrine of reprisals ( which is considered to form part of the jus in bello ) are essentially the same as those of the doctrine of self-defence in relation to the initiation of conflict . |
| 26 | One of our informants cynically suggested ( though in fact with reference to the concept for Multicultural Education ) that ‘ permeation is a word used to indicate that the institution believes the issue should be seen to be addressed without wishing to provide administrative support for such addressing ’ . |
| 27 | Right , now I must n't be seen to be indicating in any way that er you do n't have to bother with it all , because they too put all out some excellent er booklets , brochures I 've got two thick pads of them which I 'll let you circulate . |
| 28 | In some cases pairs of cells will be seen to be attached by a cytoplasmic bridge ( the " midbody " ) , which represents the remains of the previous cleavage furrow and hence indicates the original point of contact between the cells as well as the orientation of the cleavage plane ( 12 ) . |
| 29 | Well I would expect that the Prime Minister would , I think this nonsense that is behind all this is that because I am talking to Gerry Adams , they do n't want to be seen to be talking to me because it looks this fingerprint argument |