Example sentences of "[conj] [vb mod] be see " in BNC.
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1 | Similarly , the techniques and tools of structured systems analysis can be incorporated into the conventional approach or can be seen as forming part of an alternative methodology for applications development . |
2 | The banks and cuttings have been left ‘ wild ’ for so long that they are rich in plant life with tremendous variation which is reflected in the 60 different bird species that may be seen along the line . |
3 | We should ask if it is product ( end ) or problem ( origin ) that should be seen as the generic base of what design is ' — not as a challenge to construct a dialectical , interactionist model of design activity , which takes each of these moments seriously as a necessary moment or characteristic of " what design is " , but as an affront to rationalism . |
4 | Here in Mixed Life , a text that must be seen in relation to Scale 1 and Scale 2 , Hilton adumbrates the same progress in chapter fourteen : Following Augustinian theology , he locates the very essence of Christian life in the continual sustained desire for God — the only way in this life to perceive the nature of the love which joins God and man 's soul . |
5 | As part of his project of recasting psychoanalysis in post-structuralist terms , Jacques Lacan has rewritten the Cartesian cogito in a way that might be seen as approximating more to Augustine 's formulation than Descartes 's : ‘ I think where I am not , therefore I am where I do not think ’ . |
6 | Until now , at least publicly , the society has played down the level of anxiety ; it has resisted taking any action that could be seen as anti-government . |
7 | For him , at that time and in that position , everything that could be seen between the distant boundaries of blue hill and black mountain , everything that spread below him under a fathomless heaven , was resonant with new meaning , new speech , new glory . |
8 | For example , it gave news of ships in peril that could be seen from Fanefjord but not from Elmelunde ; of fires raging in the forest near Magleby that could not be seen at Børre ; of women in labour , requiring the services of a midwife . |
9 | Hemlines were up and tunes like the ‘ Black Bottom ’ and the ‘ Charleston ’ were part of a new sense of freedom that could be seen every night in Glasgow at over 50 ‘ Palais de Danse ’ . |
10 | Above them , on a grassy hill , loomed the Monument — an imitation ruined temple that could be seen for several kilometres around . |
11 | He gives up a day job to write down the stories — of the Secret Mountain , the Sound that could be Seen , the Slow Children and the Magic Duvet — that he once told for free to a rabble of offspring and other kin and friends . |
12 | The fuselage , or that part of it that could be seen from above , appeared to be relatively intact . |
13 | Even if the government neglected to veto legislation of this sort , the Westminster Parliament could in theory pass laws to repeal colonial legislation , but in practice Parliament did not legislate on issues that could be seen as internal concerns of the colonies and did not go round picking up loose ends left by the governors . |
14 | For all their efforts to uncover trends that would serve to unify the history of life on earth , the vast majority were unwilling to explain the trends as the result of natural processes that could be seen operating in the world today . |
15 | They could only accept evolution if it were a process that gave rise to regular , predictable developments in accordance with some preordained plan that could be seen as originating in the mind of God . |
16 | There was evidence that could be seen to point either way and so the verdict was left open . |
17 | The smoke from the merry burning rose miles high , in a wind-sculpted black column that could be seen across the whole of the discworld . |
18 | The guide took his place at centre stern and , after the raft had turned in a circle to adjust itself to the current , the paddling rhythm set in to send it down-river towards the white foam that could be seen rising between the distant boulders . |
19 | A supermarket now occupies what was once a substantial spinning mill and green fields have replaced the massive four storey plate glass weaving shed that could be seen miles away with the BMK logo illuminated on top . |
20 | The act of faith consisted of believing that the visible contained hidden secrets , that to study the visible was to learn something more than could be seen in a glance . |
21 | A vindictive hatred of Kit Nubbles for saying that he was ‘ an uglier dwarf than could be seen anywhere for a penny ’ causes Quilp to set on Sampson Brass and his sister falsely to incriminate the boy . |
22 | But if they were sold through a charity shop in the High Street that would be seen as a business . ’ |
23 | ‘ These arguments ( against fast foods ) use lack of balance to dramatize a point that would be seen instantly to be ludicrous if presented reasonably . |
24 | It seems clear from the surviving images that emperors took interest in and approved the form of their portraits , particularly those that would be seen by many of their subjects on coins and statues set up in public places . |
25 | Most ‘ Oddballs are secretive species , but I wanted something that would be seen so there had to be a midwater swimmer in the selection . |
26 | In major buildings like the temples , dressed stone sawn with long bronze saws was used , particularly for sections of wall that would be seen . |
27 | Boots are the best footgear on rough terrain and a torch is essential if the intention is to peep or venture into the caves that will be seen en route . |
28 | To revamp our old Enemy for contemporary consumption is to run the risk of creating a science fiction that will be seen as fantasy rather than science . |
29 | Like all saw cutting , the ‘ show face ’ ( the side that will be seen when the work is assembled ) should face upwards . |
30 | Canoeists and surfers have been riding one of the biggest Severn Bores that will be seen this year . |