Example sentences of "be seen [prep] a [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Leicester MP led a delegation representing BCCI victims in more than an hour of talks which are seen as a prelude to a meeting between MPs and Chancellor Norman Lamont on March 23 . |
| 2 | These are seen as a barrier to many Asians . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Most of these mountains can be seen on a walk to the watershed of Glen Nevis , but foreshortening robs them of distinctive summits . |
| 7 | If it is supported by the evidence ( 9 ) , then it can be seen as a contribution to theory ( 10 ) . |
| 8 | Any attempt to open up the convolutions of farm policy to public scrutiny is bound to be seen as a threat to those with an interest in the status quo . |
| 9 | What from the central perspective might be seen as an instrument of public expenditure control , from the local level might be seen as a threat to the fabric of local government itself . |
| 10 | An engineer may be seen as a threat to society when designing a plant which generates toxic waste , but to be protecting society if working on a flood prevention scheme . |
| 11 | The new system may be seen as a threat to status and job . |
| 12 | I do not want to be seen as a liability to you . |
| 13 | Secondary encopresis Children 's bowel control may have relapsed in response to a stressful event like the birth of a baby , a traumatic separation or loss , and this can be seen as a regression to an earlier level of emotional development . |
| 14 | As Professor Chapman observes , high status nursing can be seen as a route to social mobility ; the more closely the nurse works with a doctor as a member of the team , the more prestigious the job is assumed to be . |
| 15 | However , the drop in the share price could also be seen as a corrective to the excessive value placed on the shares in the company 's first months on the stock market . |
| 16 | Observers noted that Kravchuk 's offer , and specifically the offer to settle the ethnic Germans [ for whose status see below ] , could be seen as a snub to the Russian Republic , whose hesitancy in creating a Volga republic for the deported German population had been a topic of discussion in the Russian Foreign Minister 's recent visit to Bonn [ see also p. 38730 ] . |
| 17 | This thought casts the world in a profoundly different light from common sense in its materialistic moment ; and much of metaphysics can be seen as a response to it . |
| 18 | These proposals can also be seen as a response to the weakening of the claims of the shareholders as property owners due to the separation of ownership and control in the large public company . |
| 19 | The orientation here was more " collectivist " and it can be seen as a response to socialist challenges to policies based on political economy and philanthropy . |
| 20 | The behaviour of members of society can be seen as a response to the functional prerequisites of the social system . |
| 21 | For example , government provision of housing may be seen as a response to the inadequacies of the market as a provider of houses , but it has also transformed the character of that market . |
| 22 | The document recognises that informal patronage could be seen as a response to widespread deficiencies in medical education , postgraduate training , appraisal , careers guidance , and appointments procedures . |
| 23 | While integration in Europe can be seen as a response to this process , globalization does not necessarily promote co-operation . |
| 24 | This refusal is much more of a " classic " polite refusal : it is not immediate ( being offset instead by laughter , which also marks it as " non-serious " ) and is immediately followed by an excuse ( " I 'm gon na take Natasha over the park " ) , which could also be seen as a bid to be treated as doing something equivalently onerous : looking after a child instead of washing up . |
| 25 | If we think about the basic body plan of a phylum , it can often be seen as a solution to an engineering design problem facing an ancestor , but one which is no longer relevant to most living descendants . |
| 26 | It may be seen as a challenge to the dominance of bureaucrats and professionals characteristic of both statutory agencies and the more traditional voluntary organisations . |
| 27 | Labelling a particular SBU as a ‘ dog ’ should be seen as a challenge to the people involved with it to search out and propose new SBUs and not just a signal to give up and die . |
| 28 | But there remained large elements of his speech to Aberdeen Conservatives which are likely to be seen as a challenge to modern classroom practice and a potential increase in political interference in Scotland 's new curriculum for children aged between five and 14 . |
| 29 | In this context ‘ easing ’ has to be seen as a means to accomplishing routine community police work , not as an alternative to it . |
| 30 | Classroom organization and teaching strategies need to be seen as a means to an end , not as ends in themselves , and to allow this shift the ends or purposes need to be discussed and clarified . |