Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [adv] see [prep] " 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 We may see it even in political fundamentalism — where the teachings of a reformer are still seen as the crystal clear teachings which are the pure source of revelation , and from which deviation is heresy .
3 The completeness of the fusion that has taken place varies greatly in different orders of insects , and indications of the original paired condition are clearly seen among the lower orders .
4 The genes producing these peptides are quite distinct but it is not clear whether both peptides are produced in all L cells , as dual localisation is only seen in a proportion of them .
5 Although these attitudes still persist , the general view has been transformed and reminiscence is now seen as a normal , if not essential , element of successfully growing old .
6 Despite these criticisms , the new programme is widely seen as an advance on the Karnataka Social Forestry Project , inaugurated in 1983 with World Bank funding , which led to the expropriation of common land for eucalyptus plantations , and clashes between vilagers and foresters .
7 There are in fact quite a number of exceptions to this proposition , so that in England a county court summons will normally be served by an officer of the court sending it by post and some writs in admiralty may be served by the Admiralty Marshal ; in the United States federal courts , summonses in civil actions are served by a United States Marshal ; but service by the plaintiff or his agent is nonetheless seen as the common law norm .
8 This instrument is thus seen to be a splendid complement to the other members of the woodwind fraternity .
9 The strength of neo-elitism is best seen against the background of pluralism ; as a critique of pluralism it introduces the concept of non-decision-making and points up the failure of pluralist methods to define properly what is meant by the term ‘ key issues ’ .
10 The software comp/decomp is then seen as a way of pushing the boat out for future Intel processors that will have video handling capabilities built into the main CPU itself .
11 Describes an allele whose effect is not seen in the heterozygote , because of the presence of a dominant allele of the same gene .
12 We now show that this effect is also seen in the transcriptional level , that IFN γ binds to colonic epithelial cells , and that this binding is reduced in the presence of salicylates .
13 If that cut is n't seen to by somebody qualified the boy could be scarred for life . ’
14 The role of pension funds in this outflow is often taken as indicative for , since the mid-1960s , pension funds have become the main channel for employees ' long-term savings and their overseas investment is sometimes seen as a ‘ diversion ’ of savings that could otherwise have been used to finance productive investment in British industry .
15 With the lower example covered , the upper figure is typically seen as green shapes against a red background because of the symmetry .
16 — It is not clear , though that the Review is best seen in terms of a " regression towards the traditional pattern that still held in English Studies " as Mulhern elsewhere suggests .
17 This anomaly is now seen to be largely explained by the intervention of the patron — the broker land agent — who set the objective for both lawyer and client in two of the three cases .
18 Environmental reporting is increasingly seen by companies as a competitive rather than a public relations issue , the study concludes .
19 Kin altruism is therefore seen by sociobiologists as the most basic form of co-operative behaviour .
20 The new government 's attitude to foreign investment was also seen as an important indicator of future economic policy .
21 Because AIDS was initially seen to be confined to particular groups , some countries which associated drug-taking and homosexuality with deviant or criminal behaviour took punitive measures .
22 In contrast with hepatic bile , a significant difference in the total lipid concentration was not seen in gall bladder bile and the total lipid concentration did not correlate with the nucleation time of gall bladder bile .
23 The recovery programme was also seen as an attempt by Keating to heal divisions in the ruling Australian Labor Party ( ALP ) after his 1991 leadership battle with former Prime Minister Bob Hawke [ for Keating 's replacement of Hawke see p. 38675 ] .
24 The vote was widely seen as a referendum on the LDP 's controversial UN Peace Co-operation Bill , which was withdrawn three days later .
25 The vote was widely seen as a test of voters ' attitude to greater integration into western Europe .
26 His achievement of only 7 per cent of the vote was widely seen as a decisive rejection of his racially oriented campaign .
27 Immunostaining for each enzyme was present in the cytoplasm of tumour cells ( Fig 3 and 4 ) , although in a few cases nuclear staining was also seen for the glutathione S-transferases .
28 Although wishing to increase membership , Council was anxious that direct entry was not seen as an easy option and instructed the M&R Committee to apply rigorously the requirement that the candidates demonstrate at least five years ' experience at senior level in credit management and to raise to 30 years the minimum age .
29 Considerable gaseous dilatation of the small and large bowel was consistently seen in the AL and the AH patients during their hospital stay ( Fig 1 ) , whereas the abnormal gas disappeared after treatment in 12 of 13 patients with AA ( Fig 2 ) .
30 The Sussex coast was best seen at a distance , though , for proximity to the sea causes human beings to create great ugliness .
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