Example sentences of "seen as [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er , it 's not one that 's er that 's currently practised , but it 's not all that long ago , in in folk memory that that that women in their particularly women who had practices and rituals were seen as witches . |
| 2 | The police and civil service are seen as oppressors and terrorists . |
| 3 | But these were seen as consequences , not causes . |
| 4 | Left-wing militancy a–d more especially the left-ward lurch of the Socialist Party are thus seen as responses to right-wing intransigence , and the right as bearing the main responsibility for political breakdown , ever-worsening social conflict , and ultimately , civil war . |
| 5 | Fan letters , fanzines and the many SF conventions around the world can be seen as responses to such experiences of reading SF . |
| 6 | They feel , for example , that St Paul 's restrictions on women 's activities — in the early Christian communities to whom he was writing — are to be seen as regulations applying in all situations in the Church for all time . |
| 7 | These changes can be seen as elements of a programme intended to open up more aspects of public sector provision to the market and to undermine the powers of state bureaucracy , particularly as highlighted by exponents of ‘ public choice theory ’ . |
| 8 | Paley was quite right to insist that the adaptation of each individual species to its environment was an indication of divine forethought , but it was equally important to demonstrate the existence of an underlying pattern that showed that all species could be seen as elements within a rational plan . |
| 9 | Notice that both teacher and learner are seen as evaluators , a view I subscribe to ( see also Alderson 1985 ) . |
| 10 | They are seen as exercises ‘ camouflaged as stories … and are accompanied by pictures depicting situations for the description of which the child knows he would use a wide vocabulary and a rather complex sentence structure ’ ( p.221 ) , a vocabulary and sentence structure very different from those used for the primer . |
| 11 | In Glasser 's book , and in Fraser 's , the activities of the poor can be seen as activities which had been performed , and written about , in the past : but these are books which intimate that the lists and specifications of a caring naturalism — features by which they have indeed been influenced — were never exhaustive : that the truth-tellers did not tell it , and that the omissions were systematic . |
| 12 | Despite the crises of the period 1945–50 , these years can also be seen as ones of great opportunity . |
| 13 | There are few Japanese managers at Smyrna , Georgetown and Washington , and the few are seen as teachers , not meddlers . |
| 14 | It is also a play in which mortals are seen as figures of infinite pathos in a universe controlled by the whims of a cruel fate and a capricious deity . |
| 15 | Symmetry about the vertical exerts powerful effects on figure-ground segregation in normal observers ; other factors being equal , symmetrical shapes are seen as figures against asymmetrical grounds . |
| 16 | THE APPROACH of the Eden Park Test initially was viewed with trepidation , and the majority of the five changes to the home team were seen as signs of disarray rather than as providing fresh blood . |
| 17 | Bankers and tourism may be seen as signs of economic insecurity . |
| 18 | There are therefore different aspects of the functionalist style which can most readily be seen as tensions between empiricism and rationalism or positivism and idealism . |
| 19 | Even if literary texts were not seen as copies of reality , they were nevertheless regarded as copies of structuralist models . |
| 20 | But , in so far as they are to be seen as sons of the lost primal mother , they clearly represent the manic alternative to the depressive self-punishment of the followers of Cybele or the castrated and killed sons of the Great Mother represented by Attis and Tammuz , by the dead and dismembered Osiris , or the crucified Christ . |
| 21 | Pupils are seen as recipients , with very little to offer to the curriculum . |
| 22 | It seems that all the things that we met with in life and thought of as advantages in the beginning , are found to be grave disadvantages ; and all those things that in our youth we thought of as severe disadvantages , at last come to be seen as benefits . |
| 23 | These jobs are usually seen as benefits , certainly by the workers who flock to take them up , and by the governments that have established incentive programmes to attract them in the first place . |
| 24 | Pornography , prostitution and homosexuality continue to be seen as variations on a theme to this day , something we implicitly acknowledged when we adopted the word ‘ gay ’ as our own . |
| 25 | The general view was that yes , women are seen as females first and musicians second . |
| 26 | However , so long as the figures are seen as illustrations of typical developments and not as a catalogue of all possible types of flow , this may not matter much . |
| 27 | All its imports could be seen as luxuries , and the Stuart government was very ready to see luxuries taxed ; as James II put it to his Parliament in 1685 , ‘ Lay it on Luxury , as chocolate , tea , coffee , East Indian commodities as not necessary for the life of man , and on wine . ’ |
| 28 | The relatively puny Fascist and Communist movements in Britain gained attention because they were seen as projections of much more important European counterparts . |
| 29 | In the critical approach to knowledge , both the commonsense view and the academic view of the world are seen as views and not as an absolute account of the world . |
| 30 | The retinues of other northern lords can also be seen as components of the ducal connection . |