Example sentences of "[adv] be seen [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a huge margin of victory has rarely been seen in a tournament of this class . |
| 2 | However , what is most interesting is that a deliberate attempt was made to sell it as a concept rather than as what might have hitherto been seen as a package of infrastructural measures . |
| 3 | Physical beauty has long been seen as a reflection of God 's presence in the world ; mystical texts describe the divine beauty to be found in creation as the female spirit , the bride and the beloved . |
| 4 | THE NEED FOR the majority of county cricketers to cobble together alternative employment for themselves for half the year has long been seen as a compromise on the professionalism of the game . |
| 5 | Monetary union has long been seen as a way of bringing about greater economic and political unity within the Community . |
| 6 | The organization had long been seen as a forum for developing countries to press their interests and often for confrontation between developing and developed countries . |
| 7 | Also , once this perspective is established , any assurance from the other side of real interest in disarmament will naturally be seen as a trick , or at best as a propaganda move . |
| 8 | Once mistaken for a joker , he could henceforth be seen as a crank : an important advance in reputation , though this playful and darting mind was seldom so serious as when it was spoofing , or so earnest in intent as when making a joke . |
| 9 | They are so small that they can only be seen with a microscope . |
| 10 | Most fungi grow as long thin threads called hyphae — they are so slender that they can only be seen under a microscope , but a mass of intertwined hyphae is visible : this is what makes up toadstools and mushrooms . |
| 11 | Although Buckingham was to take possession in most cases only as offices fell vacant , the existence of such a powerful reversionary interest could only be seen as a threat by existing office holders . |
| 12 | Although Buckingham was to take possession in most cases only as offices fell vacant , the existence of such a powerful reversionary interest could only be seen as a threat by existing office holders . |
| 13 | The five-year-old is un- beaten in six races over hurdles , including one over the course , and his run today can only be seen as a dress rehearsal for the Champion Hurdle next year . |
| 14 | The refugee presence in neighbouring countries made the Palestine question highly visible , while from an Arab perspective the creation of Israel could only be seen as a smack in the face of the Arab nation . |
| 15 | Lord Osborne told the accused that it was a very serious offence and the happy feature of the case was that the baby had apparently not suffered very much at all in the long term — and this could only be seen as a miracle . |
| 16 | I wish to inject an addendum in deliverance fourteen after the words each other , helping each other to continue to mature add the words christian worship together is seen as a priority . |
| 17 | There was also then great concern that the appointment of erm er of independent members apparently was seen as a way of my Right Honourable Friend or anyone who then er held the office of er Ho Home Secretary would actually put in his own . |
| 18 | The question of the Selby coalfield has not been seen as a constraint on other forms of development erm peripheral expansion , expansion of villages and so on within the coalfield area . |
| 19 | I 've never not been seen by a kid . |
| 20 | During a shift when the men considered that very little was happening , they responded to calls concerning a house fire and an attempted break-in , calls to check on the whereabouts of a pensioner who had not been seen by a neighbour for a few days , a request to pick up and transport a prisoner , and a call to move on some youths . |
| 21 | The increase of State control which has already been seen as a feature of military organization in this period is also visible where navies are concerned . |
| 22 | The wide applications of Mouse Alert have already been seen by a variety of customers , whose needs range from protecting high technology equipment , ensuring that perishable foods leave premises uncontaminated , and knowing that pharmaceutical products remain sterile . |
| 23 | It can nevertheless be seen as a kind of charade whereby societies have in the past been held together but which , as a charade , is replaceable by something not involving the pretence element . |
| 24 | He will soon be seen as a bartender in the comedy The Linguini Incident and he has a cameo as a FBI agent in David Lynch 's Twin Peaks : Fire Walk With Me . |
| 25 | The outcome may thus be seen as a situation in which there is considerable trade-union militancy with respect to wages , hours of work and related issues , but relatively little expression of class consciousness in the broader sense of any profound awareness or conviction of living in a society the nature of which is predominantly determined by class relations , and of being engaged in a continuing struggle to establish an alternative form of society . |
| 26 | All these processes will be helped immeasurably by the imaginative use of computer technology which , like accountancy , will no longer be seen as a service but as an integral part of the whole process . |
| 27 | over a number of years I was subjected to domestic violence , erm , the last time I left I did n't report it right away , morally it was my son , I did n't want to drag him through the court , but when I did I was told no , your too late , you will just be seen as a woman scorned , your trying to get revenge , and that 's it , no , I 'm not taking a statement . |
| 28 | Cells can not normally be seen without a microscope , being about one-thousandth of a millimetre in diameter . |
| 29 | Pleasure and pain can not be seen as a lowering of tension and a heightening of tension respectively ; there can be a pleasurable heightening of tension , as in sexual activity ( a new admission compared with the position Freud took in Beyond the Pleasure Principle ) and a painful lowering of tensions . |
| 30 | Just to finish up colleagues this should not be seen as a willingness for local authority workers to give up their jobs , but it needs to be sorted so that our brothers and sisters who are forced into redundancy receive fair recompense for their loss . |