Example sentences of "not [be] seen [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly this method of drawing has not been seen at a later date , and it would have been difficult to produce this quality and style of work in quantity . |
| 2 | The concentration of power in the hands of the managers of the largest companies could not be seen as a necessary bulwark against the power of the state . |
| 3 | Every good game defines the parameters of what may or may not be seen as a legitimate action . |
| 4 | Those opposed to the ordination of women to the priesthood maintain that it can not be seen as a legitimate development because it is ‘ closely related to the central doctrines of the Christian faith ’ . |
| 5 | However , it can not be seen as a new problem area . |
| 6 | The Iranian , Syrian and Turkish governments were also reported to be concerned that the elections in Iraqi Kurdistan should not be seen as a first move towards the creation of an independent Kurdish state . |
| 7 | Elephants should not be seen as a mere single species in conservation terms . |
| 8 | The extensive consultation which takes place between central government and these associations should not be seen as a generous concession by government but as ‘ the inevitable response in a situation where the centre lacks detailed control . |
| 9 | Second , just as the onset of disability can not be seen as a one-off life event , neither can the intervening impact of ageing be considered as a self-contained life event , or even a series of discrete life events . |
| 10 | She argues that autonomy should not be seen as a psychological capacity , but as a social one , depending on public acknowledgement , and that this acknowledgement arises from the recognition of responsibility rather than of rationality . |
| 11 | In England , obtaining extracts of public records would not be seen as a judicial act , and the phrase ‘ other judicial acts ’ seems to remain a source of puzzlement . |
| 12 | Domestic life can not be seen as a balanced and equal relationship between men and women . |
| 13 | Again , it is a starting point for negotiations and should not be seen as a definitive version . |
| 14 | There is no duty upon the Commissioner to have regard to these vague considerations which should therefore not be seen as a potential fetter on the Commissioner 's discretion . |
| 15 | Similar anxieties exist about the morbidity and mortality of patients who can not be seen within a satisfactory time . |
| 16 | They are there to see in various books that have been published ; I suppose it is sad that they have n't been seen by a wider opera-going public . |
| 17 | I do n't see why Invermoriston or Loch Laggan ca n't be seen as a fixed address . |