Example sentences of "see as the [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 He tried to empty his mind of all thoughts , preparing for what only the most naive would fail to see as the last meeting of the Academy .
2 This is seen as the great strength of the market order and an important condition for freedom : there is agreement on means but not ends , which makes it possible for society to reconcile the differing purposes of individuals within a catallaxy which is purely economic .
3 Indeed , so firmly did they reject the view that adults should be given the right to choose their own cinema entertainment — ‘ whatever turns you on ’ , as the saying went — that their Report marked the beginning of a historic swing of the pendulum away from what can now be seen as the libertarian heyday of British media law .
4 The intent behind these changes within the Labour Party constitution spills over to pose a challenge to the kind of democracy that has been seen as the essential hallmark of the liberal-democratic British constitution .
5 Geoffrey Elton has consistently argued that this revolutionary new strategy was the brainchild of the recently appointed secretary to the privy council , Thomas Cromwell , who should thus be seen as the sole architect of the Henrician Reformation .
6 Such projects , then , can produce important lessons , but there is a danger of temporary , inadequately funded special projects being seen as the sole response of adult education to the unemployment crisis .
7 The number of these passes was , and still is , widely seen as the sole criterion of ‘ standards ’ in education .
8 Nationalism and its vocabulary , then , is , in my view , best seen as the mobilising talk of located élites , over the structures of the political state in their regions .
9 For , to take just one aspect of this notion of danger , just as crawling things could be seen as the negative side of things approved , so the flow of female blood , again in symbolic terms , could be seen as the negative side of the ideal concept of society as whole and self-contained .
10 For , to take just one aspect of this notion of danger , just as crawling things could be seen as the negative side of things approved , so the flow of female blood , again in symbolic terms , could be seen as the negative side of the ideal concept of society as whole and self-contained .
11 So too are recent developments in what the Chicago School would have seen as the biotic level of instinctive behaviour affecting individuals and societies .
12 In the first four lines receding life is seen as the dying season of autumn giving way to bitter and bleak winter .
13 It may be seen as the effective adaptation of policy to the needs of the public , or it may be seen as the manipulation of positions of power to distort policy towards stigmatization , discrimination and petty tyranny .
14 This is part of a wider public policy in relation to health care , where Primary Health Care is being seen as the central component of the Health Care System and an accepted general principle that Health problems be dealt with at the lowest level of complexity , and acknowledges that a well-informed , well-motivated participating community is necessary for the achievement of health targets .
15 The fundamental question , as posed by Foucault , is how is it that in our society sex is seen not just as a means of biological reproduction nor a source of harmless pleasure , but , on the contrary , has come to be seen as the central part of our being , the privileged site in which the truth of ourselves is to be found ?
16 While these national liberation movements in the Third World were in theory modelled on the nationalism of the West , in practice the states they attempted to construct were generally the opposite of the ethnically and linguistically homogeneous entities which came to be seen as the standard form of ‘ nation- state ’ in the West .
17 Is national Sec right to expect that the national office will be seen as the normal point of contact with people in his nation ?
18 God was therefore seen as the ultimate explanation of everything , but not as the particular , immediate cause of specific , individual occurrences .
19 If one considers the Butte de Saran as separate from the headland of the Côte des Blancs , then the vineyards of Cuis can be seen as the northernmost edge of the Côte .
20 In fact , it is the facility to achieve high degrees of such co-ordination and control in its complex inter-market organization and state-facilitated integration which many commentators have seen as the strategic edge of Japanese capitalism .
21 The " drug barons " , importing from Thailand , Pakistan , or Colombia , are seen as the real cause of increasing " hard " drug addiction in the UK , rather than the fact that they would have no market if there were no demand .
22 Ozawa , 50 , who was widely seen as seen as the real leader of the new group , firmly committed himself to comprehensive political reform .
23 Kin altruism is not , however , seen as the only form of altruistic behaviour in which sociobiology sees people and animals engaging .
24 Hewlett-Packard expects COSE to deliver a measure of source code compatibility for applications across various Unix architectures in its initial guise — a binary compatible environment allowing applications to run on multiple systems is seen as the net result of future COSE specifications .
25 HP expects COSE to deliver a measure of source code compatibility for applications across various Unix architectures in its initial guise — a binary compatible environment allowing applications to run on multiple platforms is seen as the net result of future COSE specifications .
26 One was in the field of biogeography , where the migration of small populations to new areas could be seen as the chief cause of the branchings in the tree of life .
27 In the post-1945 period , national liberation has been seen as the first line of rebellion against capitalism .
28 The police is still seen as the first line of defence , but in recent years there has been increased co-operation between the police and the military , as in the joint exercises conducted at Heathrow in preparation for possible terrorist incidents .
29 The media often presented Jones ' results as supporting those of the two chemists whereas in due course , if not already , his work will be seen as the first refutation of the some of their claims ; his neutrons were orders of magnitude below theirs and he never made any direct measurements of heat .
30 Intellectuals of the age believed in parliamentary government , not a democratic system ; in liberty , not popular government ; and the spectre of social and economic equality itself was seen as the dark side of the claim for adult suffrage .
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