Example sentences of "is seen [prep] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is , the support of the finite verb is seen at a point in time from which the realization of the infinitive event by the person of the infinitive is viewed as a subsequent potential . |
| 2 | An eight-petalled rosette divided into four by single , black lines is seen at the centre of a geometric spray pattern ( pI . |
| 3 | Molly herself is seen at the centre of the picture . |
| 4 | As with the shipping industry , this is seen as a conflict of interest . |
| 5 | He is the first of the so-called Marcos cronies to have stood up to the Presidential Commission on Good Government , and as a result is seen as a man of action . |
| 6 | Entitled This Common Inheritance : Britain 's Environmental Strategy , it describes many old policies as new and is seen as a mixture of hopeful and vague suggestions and promises simply to consult , consider and review . |
| 7 | For them , obesity is seen as a reflection of unmet oral needs , assorted sexual hang-ups , or an unconscious desire for recognition which is satisfied by becoming bigger than everyone else . |
| 8 | although on one level Balzac 's story is ‘ about ’ castration ( one of the characters is a castrato singer ) , in Barthes 's reading the theme of castration is seen as a pretext for a kind of reflexive anxiety on the part of the text itself concerning the very possibility of representation . |
| 9 | On this approach , a shape can be recognized as a whole without the constituent parts being recognized as such ( a part is represented in a radically different way if it is seen as a Gestalt in its own right ) . |
| 10 | Once behaviour is seen as a response to some external stimulus ( such as economic forces or the requirements of the social system ) the methods and assumptions of the natural sciences appear appropriate to the study of humans . |
| 11 | The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) has published a report on the environment , in what is seen as a response to environmentalist criticisms of the organization 's emphasis on free trade [ see SAFE report , below , and also EDs 51 , 52 and 55 ] in the run-up to final negotiations in the current " Uruguay round " of trade talks . |
| 12 | His appointment is seen as a concession to the DTA . |
| 13 | From now on the Spirit is seen as a person within the Trinity , though the New Testament is not interested in doctrinal formulations of this type . |
| 14 | Restoration is seen as a struggle against the forces of change and decay , which respect neither man nor materials . |
| 15 | Today infertility is seen as a problem for the couple and andrology has joined gynaecology as a discipline in scientific medicine . |
| 16 | The island is seen as a microcosm of the world and this is part of Golding 's style that has remained the same throughout the book . |
| 17 | Even the government 's re-entry into the gilts market as public borrowing has risen is seen as a sign of hope . |
| 18 | But in societies where infants are exclusively breast-fed from birth and in contact with their non-allergic , non-food-bingeing , non-smoking mothers , ‘ colic ’ is unknown and infant crying is seen as a sign of distress , which warrants immediate attention . |
| 19 | Everybody from taxi drivers to government ministers listens to foreign radios three or four times a day and every threatening sound from Washington is seen as a sign of a new attack . |
| 20 | Their achievement is seen as a sign of hope in a country where the seven-year civil war has forced half a million people into exile and a further half million to become refugees in their own land . |
| 21 | China has just freed the last of the students jailed after the pro-democracy demonstrations four years ago , and this is seen as a sign of wanting improved relations with the west . |
| 22 | Fundamentally the whole complex of hostility towards homosexuality is a reflection of a biological imperative to procreate , in which the homosexual is seen as a threat to the species , ‘ unnatural ’ , and therefore worthy of condemnation . |
| 23 | Not only is there a continuing fear of firms corrupting politicians in the search for contracts , this close connection between industry and the military is seen as a threat to the balance of the American economy . |
| 24 | Against such threats the ego has many defences , such as denial , distortion , forgetting , intellectualization , projection and so on ; and thus it comes about that , in the not uncommon tendency to confuse the theory with the fact of what is repressed , psychoanalysis itself is seen as a threat to the very process of repression which it was the first to discover and is itself subjected to these defensive reactions . |
| 25 | At first , the river is seen as a threat to Pip as Magwitch comes from it , but later when Magwitch returns to Pip in London , it is seen as a promising object , drowning the bad Compeyson , and uniting Pip and Magwitch . |
| 26 | Against this backdrop , the People 's Bank — which started in 1989 and now has branches in many of Nigeria 's 21 states — is seen as a godsend for poor Nigerians . |
| 27 | In some countries of Europe clearly the democratic institutions are stronger and more deeply rooted than in others ; but even where they are weak , the process of political development is conceived of as being one of moving towards a stronger form of democracy and dictatorship is seen as a deviation from the norm . |
| 28 | The ‘ intellect ’ is seen as a function for the direct apprehension of images — to illumine the products of sensory and mental activity , to distinguish , and this is aligned to the thought processes which offer seemingly fragmented views of reality , being centred on objectivity . |
| 29 | The motivation to perform is seen as a function of the beliefs that individuals have concerning future rewards multiplied by the value they place on those rewards . |
| 30 | However , as Haldane 's comment suggests , altruism is seen as a function of the proportion of genes shared by individuals . |