Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] see [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In January 1990 tense relations between the Justice Ministry and the warders ' unions , as well as low staff morale , were widely seen as the indirect cause of a series of 28 prison escapes in six weeks . |
| 2 | The 1900s were also to see for the first time deaf women beginning to acquire their own identity through achievement by their own talent although not one as yet played any prominent part in deaf organisations which remained the preserve of the deaf male . |
| 3 | Although the government eventually decided to accept royalties from sales of the chip rather than to take an equity share in the company , it was widely seen as the last straw in a conflict between Fields and the administration . |
| 4 | He wondered how many people in all the mental hospitals in the country — or the world " , — come to that — were really fallen Warriors who had either cracked up from the strain of trying to live in this hell-hole , or simply made the wrong choice and thought that the test was just seeing through the whole thing and then having the courage to stand out and make that challenge . |
| 5 | The tribunal allowed the appeal against the direction because VAT avoidance was not seen as the main reason for having two businesses . |
| 6 | This whole-school section was not seen by the vast majority of staff , again for reasons of confidentiality . |
| 7 | The government 's thinking was further developed in The School Curriculum ( 1981 ) , which was clearly seen as the culminating point of several years of public discussion . |
| 8 | He was also seen on the same Monday slightly later standing at Crown Point , Martlesham . |
| 9 | Efficient , though not complete , competition was also seen with the shorter single ( lanes 7–8 ) and double stranded ( lanes 9–10 ) DNA fragments . |
| 10 | The LFA Directive was also seen by the British government as a way of recouping EEC expenditure . |
| 11 | A wide variation among subjects was also seen in the total amount of food refluxed into the oesophagus . |
| 12 | The alteration was also seen in the 225-bp amplification product derived from lymphocyte RNA of the obligate carrier mother ( Fig. 5 b ) . |
| 13 | On the way back from that holiday in Provence , the party stopped in Paris , which John was also seeing for the first time . |
| 14 | While members were also sometimes heavily involved , the compensation was often seen as the academic and professional networks established through the board and the visits . |
| 15 | That was really seen as the crowning achievement , keeping your garden clear of weeds — not what you managed to grow in the space . |
| 16 | After forming the core of a post-war consensus for over three decades since the Attlee period , the bitter legacy of the old order was now seen in the uncollected refuse bins and undug graves which popular credence ( somewhat exaggeratedly ) identified with ‘ the winter of discontent ’ . |
| 17 | She felt sad and immensely tired that she was about to see for the first time how Eddie had died . |
| 18 | The Minister declared , however , that any form of property tax would constitute a betrayal of what was then seen as the Thatcherite mantle , of middle England — Conservative England — and of those who had scrimped and saved to secure their homes . |
| 19 | Although Park gave no detailed explanation for his decision to resign , the deep antipathy between him and Kim was universally seen as the key factor in his decision . |
| 20 | These reasons secured agreement among club workers because they offered an immediate , convenient , and popular response to what was universally seen as the major problem : how to keep adolescents , especially the young ones , ‘ off the streets ’ . |
| 21 | God was therefore seen as the ultimate explanation of everything , but not as the particular , immediate cause of specific , individual occurrences . |
| 22 | Inappropriate staining with antibodies to blood group antigens was therefore seen in the colonic mucosa of 10 of 11 ( 91% ) of PSC patients and in two of six ( 33% ) normal controls and seven of 18 ( 42% ) of disease controls . |