Example sentences of "[was/were] see [adv] as a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The elections , which involved well over a quarter of the electorate , were seen both as a dress rehearsal for the North-Rhine Westphalian Land elections in May next year and as a test of the political mood in the country . |
| 2 | As will be seen , literature and the discipline which was based upon it were seen primarily as a means of transmitting personalities , on the model of the Dictionary of National Biography . |
| 3 | The report was seen partly as a response to a document published by the UN Economic Commission for Africa ( ECA ) which had criticized the socially destructive effects of World Bank-supported SAPs [ see pp. 36991-92 ] . |
| 4 | But in all social discourse a stable home was seen both as a microcosm of stable society and a sanctuary from an unstable and rapidly changing one . |
| 5 | The Bush tour produced no substantial new initiatives , and was seen primarily as a US effort to reassure the region 's governments that they were not being ignored , even though US foreign policy was currently dominated by eastern Europe and by the Gulf crisis . |
| 6 | Once , stringing PCs together was seen primarily as a way of sharing equipment like printers . |
| 7 | And if the ‘ mixed economy ’ was seen only as a framework , then like the scaffolding surrounding a building , it would be dismantled when the task in hand had been completed . |
| 8 | Whereas in the 1970s , modularity was seen variously as a means of overcoming artificial subject boundaries , promoting student choice and clarifying course objectives , the main rationales now are administrative rationalization and the promotion of credit transfer between courses , institutions , modes of study , and between the educational system and ‘ corporate classrooms ’ , to use Eurich 's ( 1985 ) phrase , as exemplified by the CNAA Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme . |