Example sentences of "[adv] [be] see [prep] an [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This has rightly been seen as an impetus towards the fusion of legacy and trust .
2 Thus recorded crime can only be seen as an indication of criminal activity .
3 Structured systems analysis and design need not only be seen as an alternative to the conventional approach .
4 The election of Tatwine , a priest in the monastery of Breedon on the Hill in the territory of the Middle Angles , to be archbishop of Canterbury on the death of Beorhtwald in early 731 ( HE V , 23 ) , should perhaps be seen as an expression of Aethelbald 's influence , and likewise that of Nothhelm , a priest of London , to Canterbury in 734–5 , and of Cuthbert , probably the former bishop of Hereford , to Canterbury in 740 .
5 Although often dismissed as an opponent of evolutionism , Owen can thus be seen as an opponent of Darwinism who was quite happy to accept a theory of evolution based on preordained trends .
6 In all these market phases , the producer could still be seen as an originator , though in practice , throughout , there were qualifications .
7 The Child Poverty Action Group might also be seen as an expert and appropriate group to raise social security matters , having been for many years active in campaigning on such matters .
8 Fearful of punitive damages , companies will avoid doing anything that might later be seen as an admission of guilt .
9 Turbulent motion can now be seen as an example of deterministic chaos .
10 But also in another sense , conservation has frequently been seen as an imposition , so much so that many local people rioted , formed armed resistance and used the issue as a nucleus for organising wide-ranging political dissent in eastern Africa against the British colonial administration ( Young and Fosbrooke 1960 ; Cliffe 1964 ) .
11 It could equally well be seen as an attempt to draw attention to problems in the world that her audience might not be aware of .
12 Even mate-swapping or ‘ swinging ’ may sometimes be seen as an adjunct to a stable , adult family life .
13 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 .
14 The judges ' decision can therefore be seen as an attempt by enlightened amateurs to retain their position as arbiters of taste in the face of these threats , by sponsoring a style of architecture which they felt would be an appropriate form of building in Victorian England .
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