Example sentences of "seen not as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is seen not as a racial characteristic but as identical with race . |
| 2 | The martyr 's conflict was seen not as a fight against duly constituted authority in government , but against Satan . |
| 3 | Thus — and this is a critical point — refusal of consent is seen not as an assertion of will , but rather as a symptom of unsoundness of mind . |
| 4 | Officers were no longer members , and increasingly education came to be seen not as a separate or specialized concern of local government but as a service to be considered alongside housing , transport , or rubbish collection . |
| 5 | The contradictions that are built into the term ‘ inner city ’ have to be seen not as the root of analytical uncertainty but as the source of rhetorical utility . |
| 6 | The state is seen not as a neutral body , but as the key agency in the promotion of the interests and values of the ruling class in capitalist society . |
| 7 | Yet this , too , is often seen not as a value but as an additional reason for not taking the genre seriously . |
| 8 | the reproduction now functions as the original , the live performance is measured against the recording , and technical equipment is seen not as an external aid to reproduction but as a characteristic of the musical original , employed as part of the artistic conception ( ibid : 236 ) . |
| 9 | Reform tends now to be seen not as treatment which is imagined to work independently of the will of the offender , but as measures which enable or assist rather than force offenders to improve their behaviour — or , in Norval Morris ' terms , ‘ facilitated change ’ rather than ‘ coerced cure ’ ( Morris , 1974 : 13–20 ) . |
| 10 | The older coherence of a specialized literate culture was challenged alike by these genuine initiatives and by the eventually widespread reproduction of imputed popular material , in speculative and profitable works designed for an expansion seen not as a changing culture but as a new and decisive market . |
| 11 | These interventions , associated with the Keynesian revolution in economic thinking which called for the state to become involved in maintaining the level of aggregate demand in the economy through the use of budgetry policies , have been seen not as a triumph of democratic struggle but as a further example of the use of the state as an instrument of the interests of the ruling class . |
| 12 | They are seen not as the victims of social problems but as those who contribute to their own victimisation by their irresolution or fatalism or apathy . |
| 13 | From their views on the intentional and affective fallacies ( Brooks seems to have agreed entirely with Wimsatt and Beardsley about these ) it follows that this reconciliation of opposites must be seen not as an event in the mind of the author or reader , but as an objective fact about the text 's meaning or structure . |
| 14 | This implies that technological change should be seen not as an isolated activity , but as integral part of firm operations , and that change is evaluated via its contributions to market success . |
| 15 | To be understood in its own terms , his policy should be seen not as the implementation of a " vision " of some future world order radically different from anything existing at the time , but as a series of practical initiatives to accelerate and to exploit an already occurring transformation . |
| 16 | The Glorious Revolution is best seen not as a victory for one party , but as a compromise . |
| 17 | But it is vital that this is seen not as legitimizing self-centredness , introspection or social irresponsibility , but as a means to ever deeper exploration of life in its totality . |
| 18 | More importantly , they show how , even in what is regarded as the most basic type of communication , the context that is relevant to the disambiguation of deixis should be seen not as a physical setting that is fixed and given once and for all , but rather as a cognitive space that is actively constructed by participants in the course of the interaction . |