Example sentences of "[been] seen [prep] [art] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now it seems that — after nearly 40 years in which pop has been seen as a threat to our children — it is finally safe to unlock your daughters . |
| 2 | The chevauchèe may have been seen as a challenge to the enemy 's pride and ability to defend his territory , but it is doubtful whether the leader of a chevauchèe , often at the head of but a few thousand men , and needing to make the expedition profitable through the taking of booty and prisoners , was seeking battle . |
| 3 | The continued dominance of City and Civil Service elites has often been seen as a barrier to dynamism in British industry ; in fact , it has merely been one aspect of a secure and integrated dominant class , linked by kinship , ownership of wealth and distinctive patterns of education . |
| 4 | In the British context of the 1980s the political project that has come to be identified as ‘ Thatcherism ’ has commonly been seen as an attempt to legitimate both the reintegration of a restructured British economy into the global economy and the revision of the relationship between the state and civil society that the preferred version of restructuring required . |
| 5 | More recently he had been seen as an impediment to the resolution of the continuing ethnically based dispute with Senegal , in the course of which at least 40,000 black Mauritanian nationals had been forcibly expelled by the Mauritanian authorities [ see pp. 36579-80 ; 36840 ] . |
| 6 | For the last decade has been one in which short-term cost-cutting has been seen as the answer to any commercial or governmental problem . |
| 7 | Industrialization had been seen as the key to international strength , and industrial development had been pushed forward regardless of rural and urban poverty , environmental damage and social and economic dislocation . |
| 8 | We all like to think we stand out from the crowd and , in the past , the face has been seen as the key to unlocking our identity . |