Example sentences of "[be] seen to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Napoleon III had no intention of allowing this to happen and so he determined that the Court should never be more than a set-piece , a backdrop in front of which the principal figures of the regime could be seen to advantage . |
| 2 | Gloria was taking good care that she and Matthew would be seen to advantage , making straight for the centre of the group . |
| 3 | The distinctiveness of the Swedish strategy will be seen to hinge on the central notions of citizenship and representation : on the one hand the deepening and extension of these on a universalistic basis in not only the political but also the economic sphere ; on the other hand their restriction within not only the economic but also the political sphere . |
| 4 | They commonly cut across preexisting grain and cement boundaries ( Fig. 5.39b ) and thus can be seen to post-date all phases they traverse . |
| 5 | ( iii ) After incubation in complement , transfer the embryos to fresh M2 + BSA and leave them for a further 20–30 min at 37 C during which time the outer cells should be seen to bleb and lyse . |
| 6 | Today the practice of this principle should lead the Church to apply the standards of fairness that are now accepted in society and this means being seen to value and use to the full the vocation and gifts of women . |
| 7 | But she was also , among other literary things , the wonderful and baleful orphan or isolate who is seen to advantage in the books she read : and it may be that cultural history is especially worth attending to in cases such as hers , where the subject is a dedicated reader , and the basis for a directly psychological account is even more than usually insecure . |