Example sentences of "not [be] seen [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question of the Selby coalfield has not been seen as a constraint on other forms of development erm peripheral expansion , expansion of villages and so on within the coalfield area . |
| 2 | I 've never not been seen by a kid . |
| 3 | During a shift when the men considered that very little was happening , they responded to calls concerning a house fire and an attempted break-in , calls to check on the whereabouts of a pensioner who had not been seen by a neighbour for a few days , a request to pick up and transport a prisoner , and a call to move on some youths . |
| 4 | Pleasure and pain can not be seen as a lowering of tension and a heightening of tension respectively ; there can be a pleasurable heightening of tension , as in sexual activity ( a new admission compared with the position Freud took in Beyond the Pleasure Principle ) and a painful lowering of tensions . |
| 5 | Just to finish up colleagues this should not be seen as a willingness for local authority workers to give up their jobs , but it needs to be sorted so that our brothers and sisters who are forced into redundancy receive fair recompense for their loss . |
| 6 | This will not be seen as a sign of weakness but a real sign of strength . |
| 7 | Punctuation should clarify and organise the essay , not be seen as a hindrance or unnecessary . |
| 8 | This should not be seen as a deterrent . |
| 9 | According to this version , the turn towards services — the shift in the balance of employment from manufacturing to services — is the direction in which all the major industrial economies are moving and in itself need not be seen as a problem . |
| 10 | But this should not be seen as a criticism ; the role and scope of audit is somewhat narrowly defined in law , and any change is almost bound to have legal ramifications . |
| 11 | On the other hand , remedial discretion should not be seen as a substitute for defining the grounds of judicial review more carefully and narrowly . |
| 12 | These phases of group problem-solving should not be seen as a model to follow but as an analysis of what tends to happen . |
| 13 | A judge should not be seen as a witness who held himself capable of comparing handwriting and reached conclusions of the comparisons . |
| 14 | If people do n't like the message they can discuss it , but the report must not be seen as a whitewash . |
| 15 | The fact that no powerfully theoretical recreation geography has emerged , however , should not be seen as a defeat for the subject , for the empirical work that has been produced has not only been very useful in its own right , but has also shown a significant mismatch between leisure aspirations and recreational resources . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 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 | To suggest that most complaints are problems of communication , amenable to resolution by doctors themselves , will not be seen as an improvement . |
| 19 | Similarly , older children 's possessive impulse would now not be seen as an instinct for ownership per se . |
| 20 | ‘ I ca n't be seen with a megaphone . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Many Americans who drive luxury European imports simply would n't be seen in a Cadillac or Lincoln . ’ |