Example sentences of "be see [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Truth , rationality , and hence science , are seen as intrinsically good . |
| 2 | Two specific sets of factors are seen as particularly significant in recent years : falling school rolls and cut backs in educational expenditure . |
| 3 | For most people who grew up before the sixties , skinheads are seen as yet another unpleasant and ugly aspect of modern youth . |
| 4 | Ms Botwin has found that a good clue to spotting a fear of intimacy is when someone can only have sex with people they do n't care about , but can confide and be intimate with people of the opposite sex who are seen as just good friends . |
| 5 | Too many allow themselves to be steered into what are seen as traditionally female jobs , or suffer discrimination if and when they have children . |
| 6 | Again , paradoxically , objects are seen as increasingly exchangeable with one another , but also increasingly specific in terms of the particular values assigned to them in the form of prices . |
| 7 | These two are seen as closely linked since it is the children of the migrants who collectively will have to resolve the clash of accents found in playgroup and school . |
| 8 | In the British case , forms and levels of national intervention are seen as closely allied to the particular class interests for which the state is responsible : ‘ the City ’ or financial capital ( for example , industrial capital ) or the trade unions . |
| 9 | Figure 8.1 , using the shape of a circle containing equal segments , gives an example of what religions have in common : they all teach very high ethical standards and ideals which are seen as intimately related to the metaphysical reality behind the world — a reality which in most religions is called " God " . |
| 10 | Furthermore , within nations , local governments and their intervention are seen as largely reflecting the demands made by class interests at the local level . |
| 11 | There is an unresolved tension between the fact that the perceptions of mystics are seen as fundamentally important to the human condition and the fact that they are given to so few . |
| 12 | What is wrong , however , is the comparison which places universities at the top because they are thought to be concerned with the abstract and academic , polytechnics below , because of their more technological emphasis ( which is itself , as often as not , a myth ) , and which deems schools to be worth considering only if they are seen as primarily devoted to academic ‘ standards ’ , imposed from above by the universities themselves . |
| 13 | There has been much discussion recently of the nature of literary canons ; university teachers of English are seen as both initiators and guardians of the canon ( as , for instance , by Kermode in his essay , ‘ Institutional Control of Interpretation ’ ) . |
| 14 | Farmers are seen as both victims and perpetrators of the increasing pressure on the countryside . |
| 15 | Although present developments are seen as both quantitively and qualitively different , they too will pass : what will happen to the land on which housing is built ? |
| 16 | Afro-Caribbeans are seen as both lazy and as extraordinarily successful in activities requiring considerable physical exertion and mental discipline such as sport and athletics . |
| 17 | Single mothers are seen as totally destabilising , a threat to life as couples know it . |
| 18 | If executive-assembly relations are seen as basically a struggle for influence over the policy-making process , what are the weapons available to each side in the struggle ? |
| 19 | And because their partners are seen as naturally more ambitious and less compromising than themselves , the women then go on to describe themselves as lucky and ‘ grateful ’ if their partners make even the smallest contribution to household affairs . |
| 20 | Not surprisingly , this doctrine has become especially important to those who feel as a matter of Marxist science that the proletariat ought by now to have enacted a revolutionary response to the crises which are seen as always present ; and their failure to do so is therefore commonly explained as an aspect of false consciousness , which prevented them from recognizing their proper historical duty . |
| 21 | In each case , the surviving field monuments are seen as only part of the original picture , with ‘ obvious ’ sites such as barrows probably occurring on the boundaries of territories attached to particular communities . |
| 22 | They are seen as very safe , with three engines — those dependable Lycoming 0-540-E4C5 piston units delivering up to 260 hp each . |
| 23 | Instead of the Commons controlling and checking the cabinet , the cabinet and prime minister are seen as very much in control of the Commons . |
| 24 | This kind of view is reasonably common in managerial literature , which attempts to come up with training and motivational techniques for dealing with conflicts which arise in what are seen as potentially ‘ conflict-free , organisations . |
| 25 | We need to be more sensitive to the messages underlying what are seen as politically neutral questions . |
| 26 | Psychodynamic psychotherapy , for example , is usually oriented around communications , behaviours or emotions which are seen as socially appropriate , such as success in relationships and paid work . |
| 27 | Young men and women tend to dislike the other more mechanical methods , such as using a sheath , diaphragm or cap , which although quite effective , are seen as too planned as well as being comparatively messy . |
| 28 | ( The Japanese , who once provoked riots , tend to invest in higher-tech operations and are seen as relatively generous . ) |
| 29 | But individual differences are seen as relatively much less significant in accounting for variations in criminal action between different individuals , different groups , and over different time-periods than are variations in the control exercised by perceived incentives and disincentives . |
| 30 | This suffices to keep the arms race a stable outcome , in the absence of mechanisms for making agreements between the players that are seen as absolutely binding and enforceable ( mechanisms that seem conspicuous by their absence in real life ) . |