Example sentences of "[adv] see as the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As of mid-January , there was 50 per cent more over the northern hemisphere than Antarctica — hitherto seen as the focus of ozone depletion . |
| 2 | The arrest was widely seen as the response of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Mahathir Mohamed to the PBS 's defection from the ruling coalition before the October 1990 elections [ see pp. 37780-81 ] ; the PBS had won a comfortable majority in the Sabah Assembly [ see p. 37612 ] . |
| 3 | The rout of German self-opinion meant that while Britain , France , Holland and Belgium were busy shaking off the last vestiges of feudal restraint in order to industrialise , the Prussian reaction to defeat was to define their contribution to the world as Kultur — a commodity that was best seen as the absence of change . |
| 4 | And what emerged from the response to the article is that reincarnation is no longer seen as the domain of cranks and weirdos . |
| 5 | His wealth made him one of the principal paymasters of the English Catholic community , and in political circles he was generally seen as the leader of Catholic opinion . |
| 6 | When first envisaged , then , the lectures were not seen as the core of a forthcoming book , even though ( with their Wagnerian connection ) they bore on his current preoccupation — and even though he was currently casting around for a subject for a book . |
| 7 | While senior officials recognize this as a problem requiring constant monitoring , the level of anxiety about it remains low , and it is not seen as the forerunner of a future threat . |
| 8 | Indeed , the sea can be a dull subject when not seen as the setting for human activity and emotion . |
| 9 | How is it that the demand for an independent Sikh state , once seen as the beginning of a threat to the unity of India , suddenly looks like an idea whose time has gone ? |
| 10 | Snow , once seen as the bane of winter life , suddenly became the ‘ white gold ’ which was to change the face of the Alps in summer and winter . |
| 11 | That event is usually seen as the beginning of the Thirty Years War . |
| 12 | She had none of that innocence or boundless enthusiasm that the Princesse always saw as the stamp of the American girl . |
| 13 | The Cabinet changes were also seen as the result of an effort by the AD secretary-general , Luis Alfaro Ucero , to boost the image of his party in the run-up to municipal and gubernatorial elections later in 1992 . |
| 14 | Gloucester 's actions after his brother 's death are traditionally seen as the triumph of an over-mighty subject , and it follows that Edward IV had been making a rod for his own back when he allowed Gloucester to become lord of the north . |
| 15 | Gloucester 's actions after his brother 's death are traditionally seen as the triumph of an over-mighty subject , and it follows that Edward IV had been making a rod for his own back when he allowed Gloucester to become lord of the north . |
| 16 | In 1843 she translated a paper by General Menabrea , later to be prime minister of Italy , describing Babbage 's analytical engine , later seen as the forerunner of the modern computer . |
| 17 | This collection , often inadequately reviewed at the time , but now seen as the heart of his poetic achievement , contains poems described by Hardy himself as ‘ possibly among the best I have written ’ . |
| 18 | That the presidency is now seen as the heart of the American system and the congress is seen as a sort of unfortunate if necessary check and control on the presidency . |
| 19 | It is now seen as the marker toward the future for many people with learning difficulties . |
| 20 | However , the returned veteran was more often seen as the protagonist in a revenge story , typically involving drugs , crime and violence . |
| 21 | Small-scale practical support , given either on a regular or occasional basis , is often seen as the essence of kin relationships . |
| 22 | On the Unionist side men who had been fed with the heady talk of absolute resistance mobilized to resist what they now saw as the sell-out of the Southern Irish Unionists . |
| 23 | The last lines quoted , which are also the last lines of the Canto , reveal this clearly for those who know The Cantos : the paradoxical coupling of the fluid ( the waves ) with the fixed ( the crystal ) is what Pound regularly sees as the essence of the authentic artifact . |
| 24 | The difficulty of the term is then obvious , but can be most usefully seen as the result of earlier kinds of convergence of interests . |
| 25 | One factor was that although the motor car made up only one third of all motor vehicles , it was yet seen as the crux of the motor problem ( Plowden , 1971 ) . |
| 26 | The effective supervision and guidance of the party was officially seen as the key to the ever-improving welfare of the Soviet people . |
| 27 | By the end of the nineteenth century the lower middle classes were actually seen as the bulwark of respectability . |