Example sentences of "[be] [adv] seen [prep] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has been widely seen as an area where employment can be created and economic vitality encouraged . |
| 2 | Gold prices are often seen as an indicator of inflation , a view reinforced by the high gold price during the inflationary years of the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 3 | Many gardeners — and visitors — are getting younger , partly because of the current ecological obsession and also because gardens are often seen as an extension of the living room . |
| 4 | What is forgotten is the limitations of coverage of both these works , as can be easily seen by an item by item comparison of sections of the two books . |
| 5 | The morning after the ark is put in Dagon 's temple , they discover the figure of their great god sprawled on the floor , his face to the ground , in what would have been readily seen as an attitude of worship . |
| 6 | Both these stories were widely seen as an attempt to ‘ shoe-in ’ Gordon Brown rather than Smith in the event of a leadership vacancy , although Brown , it must be said , had no part in them . |
| 7 | The orthodox gave the latter term a pejorative sense ; the apocryphal texts were correctly seen as an attempt to replace the books accepted by the mainstream communities and included in their church lectionary as authentic representatives of the apostolic tradition of faith . |
| 8 | Despite these criticisms , the new programme is widely seen as an advance on the Karnataka Social Forestry Project , inaugurated in 1983 with World Bank funding , which led to the expropriation of common land for eucalyptus plantations , and clashes between vilagers and foresters . |
| 9 | Decentralisation is thus seen as an alternative to the bureaucratic practices that we investigated in the previous chapter . |
| 10 | Increasingly management is not seen as an end or goal in itself . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Mannerism is usually seen as an RCA development ; but once again we find that it was already developing during the Sun period , notably in ‘ Baby Let's Play House ’ ( 1955 ) . |
| 13 | The state is still seen as an instrument which can and must be captured by the working class . |
| 14 | As well as being an aid then , being cool is also seen as an obstacle to digging deep into the ultimate reserves under stringent conditions to produce a better performance . |
| 15 | The notion of full employment is now seen as an ideal of the past . |
| 16 | Debt , as experienced by clients is often seen as an aspect of another problem . |
| 17 | The memorisation of the textbook is often seen as an end in itself . |
| 18 | Within academic circles , to cite a popular work , other than to condemn it , is sometimes seen as an admission that the author is a ‘ lightweight ’ or a populist , and there is considerable peer pressure not to include such citations . |
| 19 | A general degree is sometimes seen as an alternative for students who are not up to honours standard ; this is largely though not entirely the case with the Scottish ordinary degree . |
| 20 | The meeting was widely seen as an opportunity for both sides to stress the importance of the US-Japanese partnership , which had been under strain following the Gulf war . |
| 21 | The move followed the failure of " Operation Footloose " , an Army offensive launched in January 1990 , and was widely seen as an acceptance by the government that the escalating conflict could not be resolved by military means . |
| 22 | In fact , the action was widely seen as an attempt by George Bush 's close pal , President Turgut Ozal , to prove himself more militantly anti-Kurd than his chief rival , Suleyman Demirel , in the run-up to the October 20th general election . |
| 23 | Subsequently , Matiba 's wife and daughter were attacked on June 14 at their home in what was widely seen as an attempt to intimidate |
| 24 | The reshuffle was widely seen as an attempt to deflect allegations of corruption . |
| 25 | In what was widely seen as an attempt to give its efforts to improve relations with other countries greater domestic and international credibility , the Albanian government hosted a visit to Tirana by the Secretary-General of the United Nations , Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , on May 11-13 , when held talks with Alia and other senior officials and also visited other parts of the country . |
| 26 | The decision was widely seen as an attempt to support the Sri Lankan government in its war against Tamil guerrillas , and was announced as Foreign Minister Shukla completed a three-day visit to Sri Lanka . |
| 27 | In what was widely seen as an attempt to draw Israel into the conflict , Iraq had launched a number of missile attacks on Tel Aviv and Haifa [ see pp. 37936-37 ; 37984 ] . |
| 28 | In what was widely seen as an attempt to exact vengeance on Clinton , Nichols had issued a federal lawsuit which claimed that the Governor had had extra-marital affairs with at least five women , and that he had misused official funds in entertaining them . |
| 29 | The leadership change was widely seen as an attempt to rejuvenate the party , whose fortunes had been at their lowest since it first came to power in 1981 . |
| 30 | The Sejm had passed a resolution on May 28 calling for the exposure by June 20 of former security service agents in positions of authority , but its early implementation was widely seen as an attempt by the government to retain power . |