Example sentences of "[adv] [been] see as a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 However , what is most interesting is that a deliberate attempt was made to sell it as a concept rather than as what might have hitherto been seen as a package of infrastructural measures .
2 Physical beauty has long been seen as a reflection of God 's presence in the world ; mystical texts describe the divine beauty to be found in creation as the female spirit , the bride and the beloved .
3 THE NEED FOR the majority of county cricketers to cobble together alternative employment for themselves for half the year has long been seen as a compromise on the professionalism of the game .
4 Monetary union has long been seen as a way of bringing about greater economic and political unity within the Community .
5 The organization had long been seen as a forum for developing countries to press their interests and often for confrontation between developing and developed countries .
6 The increase of State control which has already been seen as a feature of military organization in this period is also visible where navies are concerned .
7 For nearly thirty years that crusade has been regarded as one of his least successful , whereas a later British Crusade at Earls Court in London in 1966 has always been seen as a triumph .
8 The school library has always been seen as a source of information and resources for pupils and teachers .
9 His move to Giverny in 1883 has often been seen as a turning away from the Parisian avant-garde and a retreat into the private world of his own aesthetic affairs .
10 Christian growth and education has often been seen as a job for the church , which has robbed the home of its crucial importance for its shaping of Christian character .
11 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 .
12 That has never been seen as a constituent of self regulation , and I doubt whether any government would be willing to divert so many responsibilities already assigned to other existing bodies ( for example , the Medical Research Council and the Committee on Safety of Medicines ) — better qualified to carry them out — and concentrate them in the GMC alone under the sole control of the profession .
13 Financial need , even on the part of a close relative , has apparently never been seen as a situation which required an automatic response .
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