Example sentences of "[be] not see [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Numbers of Americans and Britons have doubled in the past decade but , at 40,000 and 11,000 respectively , they are not seen as a threat to the social fabric in the same way as the Iranians and other Asians .
2 They arouse protectiveness in women and are not seen as a threat by other men .
3 The large numbers who are unable to find regular work are not seen as a phenomenon characteristic of underdevelopment , but part of the capitalist division of labour and , therefore , a similar feature to the industrialisation process of European countries , differing in terms of quantity rather than quality .
4 If the alternatives are to work , we must take care that they are not seen as a reward for those who become involved in such activities .
5 Great emphasis is put on writing and drawing skills and typewriters are not seen as a substitute for writing .
6 No novelist writing earlier than Dickens would , for example , have concentrated on a boarding house — not that fictional characters do n't stay in them occasionally , but they are not seen from the landlady 's ( or boarding house 's ) point of view .
7 The first advantage to the participating company of all of these types of activity is that they are not seen by the reader as advertising but as part of the editorial content of the magazine and therefore as having the endorsement of the editorial staff .
8 Therefore , the empirical evidence suggesting that reliable signals of each actor 's state are not seen in the course of animal conflicts may have been misinterpreted .
9 It should be noted that videos were not seen as a substitute for training but rather as a useful tool for the instructor .
10 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 .
11 Relativity and , more importantly , quantum mechanics , were not seen on the whole as a challenge to the idea of the certainty of physics ; on the contrary , they were often presented as proof of the exciting inroads physics was making .
12 The Act of 1918 set the scene of the entire political world between the wars , often through consequences that were not seen for a generation .
13 We 've reroofed the house completely rewired it , put in a fire detection system , resotred areas previously out of use and which were n't seen by the public .
14 From this point of view the state is not seen as a threat to freedom , but is rather regarded as a vehicle for securing broad community and individual rights against the power .
15 However , R/3 is not seen as a competitor to R/2 : ‘ It ( R/2 ) will exist as long as IBM is still investing in mainframes , ’ commented Plattner .
16 Quantity , essentially , is not seen as a compensation for weakness in technology .
17 The crisis is seen as being located very specifically within the prison system — it is not seen as a crisis of the whole penal system , or of the criminal justice system , let alone as a crisis of society as a whole .
18 It would appear we have too many priorities in education and although health education is included in the curriculum it is not seen as a priority unless something goes wrong !
19 Increasingly management is not seen as an end or goal in itself .
20 12.1 It is of fundamental importance that the compilation and introduction of guidelines on violence at work is not seen as an end in itself .
21 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 .
22 Describes an allele whose effect is not seen in the heterozygote , because of the presence of a dominant allele of the same gene .
23 Further studies showed that this effect on anomal weight and pellet consumption was not seen with the addition of porcine colipase alone and that there was a significant reduction in total weight of food consumed at six hours when 10 µg synthetic VPDPR was given intraperitoneally .
24 The princess , wearing a red jacket and black skirt and hat , was spotted soon afterwards making her way to the paddock , chatting happily with Andrew Parker Bowles , husband of the Prince of Wales ' friend Camilla , who was not seen at the meeting .
25 The much-rumoured move was not seen as a surprise at Westminster where Mrs Currie , who entered the Commons vowing never to just ‘ sit around adorning the backbenches ’ , had slim prospects of ministerial rehabilitation .
26 In contrast , it is noteworthy that pupils skipping a lesson here and there , having registered as present , was not seen as a problem by headteachers .
27 Truancy within the school day ( by pupils skipping individual lessons ) was not seen as a problem by headteachers ; 14 schools reported that they did not keep period attendance records .
28 Lung cancer was not seen as a sequel to smoking until the middle of the twentieth .
29 Whereas in Victorian England the provision of libraries was not seen as a matter of political contention , in modern England the political factor has operated directly in the closure and cutbacks of libraries .
30 Moss escaped with his life but the famous " Lucky No.7 " car of his was not seen in a Formula One Grand Prix again although he did later return to saloon car racing .
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