Example sentences of "be viewed as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a senior officer were to be viewed as no more than a member of an amorphous managerial team , said Mr Roach , the public would be led to believe that any complaint against a policemen was merely being investigated by ‘ one of the boys . |
| 2 | The Grand Masters of Valiance argued long into the night with Implexion and his staff , claiming that Valiance should not be viewed as a rival religion , but simply as a fellowship that promoted justice for the weak and helpless . |
| 3 | However , the task of transferring the central focus from the child to the older relative has not yet been attempted , and this chapter can perhaps be viewed as a small beginning to such a process . |
| 4 | However , description is not a privileged area of objective study , and the presentation of socio-cultural conditions of other societies can not be viewed as a final explanation of other institutions and values , but must be thought of as part of the observer 's reconstruction of their own understanding of the institutions and values . |
| 5 | On Sept. 23 Bush said in his address to the UN General Assembly that the equation of Zionism with racism was " to reject Israel itself " , and that if the UN were to be viewed as a peacemaking body , the 1975 UN resolution on the subject [ see p. 27487 ] should be repealed . |
| 6 | By turning the show into a theatrical display , Laura felt comfortable ; it was so far removed from reality that it could be viewed as a staged drama with no intention of portraying a ‘ Laura Ashley ’ customer in real life . |
| 7 | Right cause , wrong leader : Prince Charles has come to be viewed as a drunken , disorganised fop . |
| 8 | The extent to which this should be viewed as a utilitarian calculus of some kind , or whether a more dignitarian approach should be pursued is of considerable importance . |
| 9 | Although in theory Postscript could be viewed as a general purpose programming language , it is strongly biassed towards visual representation . |
| 10 | Leaving aside his rather literal interpretation of child sexual abuse statistics , sexual abuse can not be viewed as a discrete phenomenon but must be placed on a continuum of abusive behaviour perpetrated by men and women . |
| 11 | However , an Indian External Affairs Ministry spokesman , when he was asked on the same day whether negotiations had been more constructive with regard to the long-standing Kashmir dispute , said only that " the talks should be viewed as a measured and gradual approach to stabilization of our relations " . |
| 12 | However , these are not attributes of an individual as such , which for fairness might be viewed as a necessary condition . |
| 13 | The Bank states that there is no attempt to undermine existing agreement and that its proposals can be viewed as a reasonable basis to provide permanent employment for all members in the long term temporary staff category . |
| 14 | Several colleagues remember her habit of turning a design to one side and the other and back again lest anything in it could be viewed as a tiny insect or wild animal 's eyes , thus creating horrible fear for an imaginative child . |
| 15 | For this reason , the years 1559 to 1625 need to be viewed as a distinct religious period , during the course of which the Elizabethan church founded in 1559 gradually came to acquire a deep hold on the affections of the English people . |
| 16 | This can be viewed as a familiar meditation on the theme of constancy and inconstancy between lovers , the reader being granted a glimpse into a private world whose terms of precise reference remain unknown . |
| 17 | It will be viewed as a turning point , just as the Strachan signing was , only this time in the opposite direction . |
| 18 | While profit used to be viewed as a sufficient objective in itself , creating benefits for stakeholders is seen as the ultimate objective . |
| 19 | But this is surely nitpicking , in what can be viewed as a significant contribution to our knowledge of so many aspects relating to the ordinary citizens of Florence over a period of more than 200 years . |
| 20 | Notice that the determination of such rates presupposes an understanding of what counts in a culture as ‘ deliberate ’ , and that a high rate need not necessarily be viewed as a bad thing by the culture concerned . |
| 21 | The major purpose in outlining the roles within the Rowdies group has been to demonstrate that football fans of this type are not simply to be viewed as a disordered bunch of maniacs . |
| 22 | The fluorite structure can be viewed as a face-centred cubic arrangement of cations within which the anions are arranged tetrahedrally . |
| 23 | There is no fixed investment period for a PEP although , to get the full benefit , it should be viewed as a longer term investment , ideally for a minimum period of between 5 and 10 years . |
| 24 | Also , eating is not likely to be viewed as a cardinal sin . |
| 25 | Furthermore , they would be viewed as a single entity from a collections point of view . |
| 26 | Each component part of the Ontos DB is separable from the rest , it claims , and provides a range of piping conventions for accessing different parts ( objects ) of the database(s) , whilst the system as a whole can still be viewed as a single object . |
| 27 | This resilience and flexibility of the system means that developments to meet the seemingly unrelated needs of different parts of the organisation may be viewed as a single process of continuing evolution . |
| 28 | Some observers believed that the new formation should not be viewed as a permanent body , but rather as a means for the republics to escape the central power exercised by the Soviet Union . |
| 29 | Consequently , secondary-school pupils in China have only a limited opportunity to go into higher education and in this sense , those who do make it can be viewed as a privileged elite . |
| 30 | A cynical observer might argue that the assembly of a £5 million bid might easily be described as ‘ something being done ’ , and the failure of the attempt can hardly be viewed as a positive step , even if the debate on the estate 's future is now reopened . |