Example sentences of "be seen [prep] an [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a country that almost defines itself in terms of its distinctive education system , such changes are seen as an attack on the Scottish way of life . |
| 2 | Although highly inventive and productive , this questionnaire can provide only explicit responses , rather than insight into actual practices , and , through processing , has created a normative characterization of the diverse social fractions involved , which are seen as an exemplars of a larger , statistically-based model of class . |
| 3 | The killings are seen as an attempt by Sikh extremists to provoke Hindu-Sikh riots which could disrupt parliamentary polls in the state scheduled within a fortnight . |
| 4 | The ‘ agencies ’ proposed in the Ibbs Next Steps Report ( see Chapter 2 ) , for example , are seen as an alternative to government departments for the delivery of a wide range of executive functions in line with the Thatcher government 's emphasis on ‘ value for money ’ . |
| 5 | Proceedings initiated by Finland in July 1991 at the International Court of Justice were formally discontinued on Sept. 10 , removing what had been seen as an irritant in Nordic co-operation . |
| 6 | Whereas rejection of Soviet dominance had been seen as an element in the poor support for communists and ex-communists elsewhere , the Economist of June 16 suggested that Bulgarians were comparatively well disposed to Russians , regarding them historically as " Slav brothers who freed Bulgaria from the Turks in 1878 " . |
| 7 | This has rightly been seen as an impetus towards the fusion of legacy and trust . |
| 8 | I think it is erm Greater York that has been seen as an area with special problems because of its er historic character , erm which we spent many hours debating at the York greenbelt local plan inquiry , and I think most participants there accepted that the er what was being protected was not just the historic core , but also the setting of York and its surrounding ring of villages , and the way which it is proposed to protect that setting and character is by a greenbelt , now it follows that if you are imposing extremely severe restrictions on new development in an area around a settlement , then you have to meet the legitimate development needs for that settlement in another location , the further away that new settlement or other policy response is located it seems to me the less likely it is to meet the er needs of that settlement , and that will give rise to erm , you know , additional pressures on the settlement you are proposing to protect and maybe those pressures could not be resisted , and I think that 's why there is this requirement that erm the development which might otherwise be built on the edge of York , but which is not proposed to be so built because of the greenbelt needs to be located close , as close to York as is consistent with the original environmental objectives greenbelt objectives for the greenbelt . |
| 9 | What has been seen as an aspect of the Roman catholic intellectual opposition to divorce in Chapter 5 can also be recognized as a feature of the defence of catholic schools too : the opposition contains an interpretation of the moral nature of contemporary society and of what happens to catholics who are not to some degree protected from it . |
| 10 | Traditionally this change has been seen as an aspect of progress , fuelled by humanitarian ideals . |
| 11 | Also to early Christians the story may have been seen as an anticipation of the Last Supper . |
| 12 | But this goes against all trade union traditions : invoking laws and the courts has been seen as an infringement of worker 's freedom of action and power of collective bargaining . |
| 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 | 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 ] . |
| 15 | Freud has been seen as an inheritor of the Hobbesian problem of order . |
| 16 | An example of the Eleventh Labour — the stealing of the Golden Apples of the Hesperides may be seen on an altar from Whitley Castle ( fig. 14.39 ) , although it has been identified as the Hydra , however , a tree with apples is clearly visible on the edge of the stone and also the head of the protective snake . |
| 17 | This should not be seen as an attack on a balding old Pole but on the institution he leads — ie the hierarchy of the Catholic Church , whose attitudes towards gays , women and other oppressed groups belong in the dustbin of history as do those of most religious hierarchies . |
| 18 | This could be seen as an approximation to a Ramsey-optimal price structure , though the analogy is probably rather forced . |
| 19 | Finally , its admission must be seen as an advantage to the security industry and to the BSIA . |
| 20 | He was fortunate to be seen as an anti-appeaser by the time Chamberlain was negotiating with Hitler and coercing the Czechs into surrender during the Czechoslovakian crisis of September 1938 . |
| 21 | The prices that different social groups are able to afford for land can be seen as an equivalent to natural species competing for space . |
| 22 | " Look/sniff " arbitrations , as these arbitrations have become known , have to be seen as an exception to this important guideline . |
| 23 | Fearful of punitive damages , companies will avoid doing anything that might later be seen as an admission of guilt . |
| 24 | Even mate-swapping or ‘ swinging ’ may sometimes be seen as an adjunct to a stable , adult family life . |
| 25 | Its most serious short-comings are its failure to be seen as an arena for national debate … and its incapacity to be a check on executive power . |
| 26 | I think it 's very undesirable that it should be seen as an issue of women versus men , because the chances of getting anywhere are reduced if it 's set up in that way . |
| 27 | The Renaissance then can be seen as an addition to the early modern period . |
| 28 | Stedman Jones ' ( 1982 ) re-examination of chartism , for example , argues that its political form can not be understood as a simplistic response to the putative material experience of a class , nor can its political language be seen as an expression of that experience . |
| 29 | Instead , this increasingly popular element of dominant ideology should not be seen as an expression of social concern for the well-being of older people , but examined for its wider social purpose . |
| 30 | [ … ] This might be seen as an expression of concern by university mathematicians about the subject socialization of their potential students . |