Example sentences of "[noun sg] is see [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 6.5 The avoidance and management of violence is seen as an integral part of good practice .
2 Teacher research is seen as a powerful means of bringing about effective curriculum development and promoting children 's learning .
3 Throughout the whole of Merseyside crime is seen as a major social problem but , as has been seen , it is in the poor areas where the victimisation rates are highest , the impact of crime is greatest and the anxiety most intense .
4 A similar effect is seen with a shorter ( GC ) n insert [ ( GC ) 4 G ) , data not shown ] for which the first GC step is cut with lower efficiency .
5 Alternatively the pop industry is seen as an amoral instigator — so unlike Fleet Street ! — of whichever moral panic is being associated with youth – his week : ‘ Never mind morals or standards … the only notes that matter come in wads ’ ran an emblematic headline after the public 's ‘ discovery ’ of Punk Rock in December 1976 .
6 Judicial review is seen as a basic right of all citizens which the legislature will be taken to have excluded only by the very clearest words .
7 Her action is seen as an irrational or emotional response to a particular situation ; she ‘ only did it for love ’ , for example .
8 Friendship is seen as a spiritual comfort , steadying her spirit for its last journey .
9 As long as health and safety at work is seen as an optional extra more so-called ‘ Acts of God ’ are in the making , and more workers and members of the public will pay the price .
10 It would seem that Parliament 's legal power has been limited only if : ( a ) community law is seen as a higher system of law ; and ( b ) our courts are willing to uphold the supremacy of community law .
11 The phone company reckons that while this evolution of integrated management is seen as a critical need for users , it has yet to be fully addressed by network service providers .
12 The phone company reckons that while this evolution of integrated management is seen as a critical need for users , it has yet to be fully addressed by network service providers .
13 In economic studies , similar weight is given to the state as guide or guardian within a liberal democratic Japan where the relatively small size of the public sector is seen as an important indicator of the limits to state economic control .
14 The 68 works on exhibit ( the majority of which are two-dimensional ) are divided into interlinking sections : ‘ The Family ’ where the child is seen as an integral part of a socio-economic unit ; ‘ A Sense of Identity ’ where questions of power , gender , sexuality and difference are explored ; ‘ Work and Play ’ and finally , ‘ The End of Innocence ’ .
15 Not only pornography , but also the general denigration of women , has been implicated in the construction of male sexual scripts in which aggression is seen as a positive masculine quality .
16 At this stage marketing is seen as an important provider of information to support the organization 's sales effort .
17 In their portrayal , delinquency is seen as a natural and rational choice for residents of these areas .
18 Localism is seen as a good thing in itself .
19 ‘ Our attitude is any demo band is seen as a potential album band and we always treat people like that .
20 Public transport is seen as a vital link to the shops and services of the town centre .
21 Indeed , the production of meaning is seen as an essential part of the activity of the text , and it is not subordinated to an ultimate signified .
22 This resolution of meaning is seen as an effortful activity on the part of the reader , which is balanced against the likely pay-off in terms of satisfaction gained from the reading .
23 Sailing is seen as an elitist sport .
24 Moreover , because Zionism is seen as an international force , it can be combated all the more easily once Jews are concentrated in Israel and ‘ nationalists ’ have strengthened themselves and their countries by being Jew-free .
25 If , however , the service is seen as a social institution , with aims which were , to a large extent , independent of market organization , then it is possible to see it as much more successful and of far greater significance .
26 Reinforcement of appropriate behaviour is seen as a key issue pervading the work of the school , as is enabling the children to experience regular feedback concerning their performance in any given area .
27 And this Self is seen as a unitary and harmonious one .
28 In either case , education is seen as an important means of perpetuating the system of capitalist relations as well as the system of patriarchal relations .
29 This spiritual transformation is seen as an active struggle on the part of a religious ( who is , of course , assisted by grace ) to rid the soul of sin and impurity .
30 But for Eliot now the choice was not between civilized and primitive society but between Christian , non-Christian , and anti-Christian orders.a Anthropology links with Conrad to counter the optimistic vision of a modern noble savagery , but the whole is seen in a new , explicitly Christian framework .
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