Example sentences of "to be seen by [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This condition ought to be seen by all to be quite ridiculous and unacceptable , but it is all too common . |
| 2 | Even after the war turned sour he continued to be seen by many as the epitome of Germany 's unwavering will to certain victory . |
| 3 | Long after Branson had moved his office to the houseboat Duende and was seldom to be seen by most of the Virgin staff ; long after he had ceased to know everyone by name , or even by sight , Branson himself would continue to refer to a special Virgin ‘ atmosphere ’ , barely perceivable to the outside world . |
| 4 | A number of the farms have ornate towers based on Italian belvederes , which local legend says were fitted with semaphore arms to send messages to the tower on Grittleton , even though the Grittleton tower was too short to be seen by any of them . |
| 5 | Griffith therefore postulated that ordinary glass is full of very fine cracks , too small to be seen by any ordinary means . |
| 6 | Since both bodies are appointed by , or on the advice of , government they have come to be seen by some as a buffer between the state and the broadcasters but by others as an indirect mechanism by which the state can exert control over broadcasting . |
| 7 | In the 1960s , cloze procedure came to be seen by some researchers as the answer to many of the problems of validly measuring text difficulty . |
| 8 | They roused the occupants of some houses by knocking on the door and holding Bartle up to the windows to be seen by those inside . |