Example sentences of "seen [subord] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Problems which may arise in any family are those which may be seen as related to the Oedipal situation — the sexual attachment which arises between parent and child and which is not always worked through adequately . |
| 2 | Locate in Scotland , the agency charged with luring foreign multinationals to set up in Scotland , is generally seen as competing with the Welsh Development Agency and the Irish Development Authority to secure these coveted new tenants . |
| 3 | Ozawa , 50 , who was widely seen as seen as the real leader of the new group , firmly committed himself to comprehensive political reform . |
| 4 | On leaving Apple , Steve Jobs was described as ‘ its heart and soul ’ ( Patterson , 1985 ) and Lévesque was seen as speaking for the little people of Quebec , the average French Canadians whom he loved . |
| 5 | He took over 69 per cent of the vote , as opposed to just under 30 per cent for his rival , former senator Narciso Irureta , seen as belonging to the left wing of the party . |
| 6 | The erudition acquired in his Oxford years was displayed in copious references to the medieval doctors , to the Church Fathers , and to Plato and Aristotle before them , in order to show that no infallible revelation could dispossess reason from her task of pursuing truth : not only must the Scriptures be interpreted in the light of reason , but the Old Testament must be seen as leading to the New by progressive revelation . |
| 7 | In the case of the Mathematical Association , many of the older school-based members will have constructed their careers in terms of existing definitions of school mathematics and [ … ] will have had an interest , all other things being equal , in resisting changes which might be seen as leading to the relative devaluation of their ‘ knowledge ’ . |
| 8 | The South is seen as dominated by the Roman church . |
| 9 | This bi-partisanship is perfectly consistent with a rigorous exclusion of issues or ‘ minority ’ views seen as threatening by the established political elites . |
| 10 | This idea of a connection between the capitalist economy and a democratic political system appeared in various forms in accounts of the transition that was seen as occurring in the nineteenth-century European societies ( for example , as a movement from status to contract , or from authority to citizenship ) , and it has continued to have an important influence in political theory to the present day . |
| 11 | Thus the 1980s are seen as marked by the wholesale adoption of new technology replacing the legacy of the past and setting the terms of a future long boom . |
| 12 | An anomaly will be regarded as particularly serious if it is seen as striking at the very fundamentals of a paradigm and yet persistently resists attempts by the members of the normal scientific community to remove it . |
| 13 | Leavis does not question or problematize the existence of the materials of the literary tradition , and the moral force to be associated with the study of English resides , not in the " personalities " of great authors , but in the capacity of an intellectual and professional elite to " respond " , that is , to recreate in themselves that evaluative response to cultural change seen as inscribed within the literary tradition . |
| 14 | This further implies that the product life-cycle should be seen as shown on the revised McKinsey-GE grid of figure 4.4 , rather than as running diagonally across the matrix from top left to bottom right , as figure 4.3 implies . |
| 15 | Speech production is seen as relying on the reverse process — that is , the ability to translate abstract ideas into speech sounds and to articulate those speech sounds in such a way that they are comprehensible to other people . |