Example sentences of "had been seen [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Formerly , socialization had been seen as a kind of ‘ clay moulding ’ . |
| 2 | The first round of voting last week had been seen as a referendum on a UN-backed ‘ set of ideas ’ to end the division of the island with the creation of a federal state comprising Greek and Turkish Cypriot zones . |
| 3 | At the beginning of his term as General Secretary , Brezhnev had been seen as a leader pursuing the art of the possible but by the end of his life , his leadership was seen , more pointedly , as the avoidance of the necessary . |
| 4 | Proceedings initiated by Finland in July 1991 at the International Court of Justice were formally discontinued on Sept. 10 , removing what had been seen as an irritant in Nordic co-operation . |
| 5 | Whereas rejection of Soviet dominance had been seen as an element in the poor support for communists and ex-communists elsewhere , the Economist of June 16 suggested that Bulgarians were comparatively well disposed to Russians , regarding them historically as " Slav brothers who freed Bulgaria from the Turks in 1878 " . |
| 6 | More recently he had been seen as an impediment to the resolution of the continuing ethnically based dispute with Senegal , in the course of which at least 40,000 black Mauritanian nationals had been forcibly expelled by the Mauritanian authorities [ see pp. 36579-80 ; 36840 ] . |
| 7 | Minutes before three youths had been seen in a car driving at high speed … as they crossed a junction they collided with another car and spun into Mr James . |
| 8 | He had suffered vomiting , dizziness , tiredness and headaches and had been seen by a doctor in Winchester before returning to his family home in Scarsdale Road , Norris Green . |