Example sentences of "[be] see as [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 An informal survey of the lunchtime customers suggests that the hotel is well established as a meeting place and that the lunches are seen as providing good value .
2 Similarly , moderate versions of indeterminism ( especially the classical version ) allow a degree of predictability : although we are seen as making free choices , this does not preclude the specification of circumstances that influence choices in a particular direction .
3 This will not , however , be achieved as long as IT is regarded as the province of mathematics , science and technology in the curriculum , and English — or other language — teachers are seen as having little part to play .
4 However , there is a danger that parents who can not raise their children appropriately , or find a job , or provide sufficient income to support their family , or whose children engage in delinquent activities , are seen as having some form of personal failing or character weakness .
5 The outcome of these cases is that the Chinese wall has not been seen as providing satisfactory protection for the interests of the former client and , despite the existence of a Chinese wall , the courts have required the law firms not to act on behalf of the new client .
6 A large proportion of the children have been referred to the school from mainstream schools where they have frequently been seen as having severe behaviour problems .
7 ‘ Functional ’ because such institutions have to be seen as serving certain value objectives , in this case primarily the avoidance of war and mutual destruction .
8 For these suggest that holism and individualism can fruitfully be seen as serving different interests in social explanation .
9 The professionalisation of management in the late 1950s and early 1960s coincided with other economic trends , which may be seen as providing fertile ground for the seeds of the search industry .
10 Including Irish women — six of the forty fell into this category — might be seen as contradicting this objective .
11 In all three cases the changes in the host , if we accept that they are Darwinian adaptations for the benefit of the parasite , must be seen as extended phenotypic effects of parasite genes .
12 Whether these types of initiative ought to be included within the development theme is arguable , but labour-supply considerations may be seen as constraining urban output .
13 They may be seen as lacking basic training which can be rectified by the intervention of psychiatrists , psychologists , social workers , probation workers or other similar welfare professionals .
14 They must be seen as inventing new rules for the future in accordance with their convictions about what is best for society as a whole , freed from any supposed rights flowing from consistency , but presenting these for unknown reasons in the false uniform of rules dug out of the past .
15 If we approach these tensions from the perspective of assuming that these represent the dialectical poles , or at least some of them ( for of course others could be discussed here had we the space : for example the tension between " knowing how " and " knowing that " in design activity ) of a design activity which encompasses all of these in a vertical moment of synthesis , a synthesis that is counterposed horizontally ( ie over time ) by the changing movements of the activity itself ( from product critique through to problem definition to cognitive modeling of potential solutions etc ) , a movement of understanding and practice which parallels in its sphere the circle of historical understanding and historical praxis ( and just as the latter is the " way in which history itself moves " so the former is the " way praxis itself moves " ) so design can be seen as embodying that movement in its movement from or across actuality ie in its activity of transformation from one set of " givens " to another ; in its movement from problem to product .
16 When anomalies come to be seen as posing serious problems for a paradigm , a period of ‘ pronounced professional insecurity ’ sets in .
17 And there are senses in which this music can be seen as representing wider experiences , of workers particularly , within twentieth-century capitalist society .
18 The ‘ sufficient interest ’ test as interpreted in the Fleet Street Casuals case can be seen as giving partial effect to such an argument .
19 As a language is variable at all times , the many different varieties can each be seen as having continuous histories , with influences passing to and fro between them , as represented in figure 3.2 .
20 A member of the Finance Houses Association put it to us that the development of consumer credit might be seen as having three phases : first , loans granted to buy tangible assets ; secondly , loans for intangibles such as holidays ; and finally , loans simply as loans .
21 If employed , they can be seen as having obsolete skills in which it is not worth investing .
22 Two objects may reflect the same wavelengths into our eyes yet be seen as having different colours .
23 This was particularly valuable at a time when the chemical profession was coming to be seen as having different needs and interests from the learned chemical community .
24 At first , new multi-disciplinary machinery and the procedures associated with it were seen as providing social workers with the necessary change of perspective .
25 Broadly the period 1951–87 can be divided into four parts : 1951–64 , a period of comparatively little social policy innovation which may be regarded as a time of consolidation or stagnation , according to one 's political viewpoint ; 1964–74 , a period of fairly intense policy change stimulated by both political parties , in which considerable difficulties were experienced in translating aspirations into practice ; 1974–78 , a period in which rapid inflation and government by the Labour party without a parliamentary majority administered a severe shock to the political and social system , and to all who believed that there was still a need for developments in social policy ; and 1979–87 , when much more explicitly anti-welfare state Conservative administrations reinforced that shock by deliberately treating inflation as more deserving of its attention than unemployment , attacking public services which were seen as inhibiting economic recovery and seeking ways to ‘ privatize ’ public services .
26 In September 1989 , it was reported that the Home Secretary had begun a series of private discussions with public officials including the Lord Chancellor , the Lord Chief Justice ( who had hitherto been reluctant to participate in such discussions lest they were seen as prejudicing judicial independence ) and the senior Lord Justice of Appeal .
27 Such forms of help were seen as enabling young people , in the long term , to have control over their own lives .
28 Accordingly , first up were East Village , Heavenly 's wild card from early on , when their timeless swoonings and groomings were seen as making some case for the plurality of the dance scene from which Heavenly first hatched .
29 Persistent truants , those truanting for weeks at a time , were seen as posing intractable problems for schools .
30 The action of Jesus is seen as fulfilling Messianic prophecy :
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