Example sentences of "has [been] seen [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alexander III has been seen as a great lawyer pope : he made pronouncements , gave judgments and held a council for the whole Church in which the law was defined . |
| 2 | This status group — the establishment — emerged as an important social and political force during the nineteenth century and has been seen as a central element in the ‘ antique ’ or patrician' character of the British state … |
| 3 | It 's really come to the fore and has been seen as a political force for a much shorter time than , say , a hundred years , and I am wonder if , in that short time , because that 's how we can judge things , I mean presumably you were aware of the way women were treated before the Women 's Movement started raising it 's profile , and you 're aware of the way things are now , do you see much change ? |
| 4 | In rock too , the ‘ refusal of sentimentality ’ — as Dave Laing calls it — has been seen as a radical subversion of the culture represented by Tin Pan Alley song , and many of the formal innovations of 1960s and 1970s rock have been viewed in quasi-modernist terms ( see Laing 1969 : 60 , 154–60 , 176–9 ) . |
| 5 | Indeed , autonomy has been seen as a general virtue in philosophical thought of the Western world . |
| 6 | Although this has been seen as a crucial error on the emperor 's part , he may not have been wrong in his assessment of his magister militum . |
| 7 | In the USA , NAEP 's use of conventional school subjects has been seen as a conservative influence , and the reduction to the 3Rs makes the backwash effect even more acute . |
| 8 | Ever since the thirteenth century a criminal offence , being an infringement of the King 's peace , has been seen as a direct injury to the sovereign . |
| 9 | There is even a list of offices which claims that a dux was in charge of twelve civitates , but although this text has been seen as a Merovingian document , it is almost certainly a school-book , originating perhaps in the British Isles . |
| 10 | Eckholm 's book ( 1976 ) does this more than adequately , and less recent accounts ( e.g. Jacks and Whyte 1939 : Hyams 1952 ) have also documented what has been seen as a widespread and serious problem . |
| 11 | It has been seen as a significant feature of contemporary Britain and has been variously offered as a partial explanation of the continuing success of the Conservative party and its socially atypical leadership . |