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

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1 Aethelred 's initial acts on becoming king should perhaps be seen as primarily a securing of Mercian border territories .
2 The former proposal could be seen as just a way of improving the quality of decision-making by the High Court when hearing judicial review applications .
3 In structuralist accounts the state is seen as essentially a factor of cohesion in society , which functions to organize the dominant class and to disorganize the subordinate classes through the use of either repressive or ideological apparatuses ( Althusser , 1969 ) .
4 In traditional medicine , health is seen as essentially a matter of maintaining a balance within an individual as well as between the individual , the community and the environment .
5 Purchasing ought not to be seen as mainly a question of routine paperwork .
6 We find social relationships simplified , while myth and ritual are elaborated … if liminality is regarded as a time and place of withdrawal from normal modes of social action , it can be seen as potentially a period of scrutinization of the central values and axioms of the culture in which it occurs .
7 Erm , it 's been an important year for us , and I think that , you may recall that last year we talked a bit about the Nathan report , and er , if you look at the Directors er , report , you will see that quite a lot of the work that we talked about and was in the Nathan report , is now under way , and I think it 's very important .
8 He continued to look her up and down , with no evidence of warmth at what he saw but just a tightening of the hard lips and that aloof dark stare she had already witnessed .
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