Example sentences of "seen as [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By analogy , Riley 's paintings could be seen as operating within similar parameters : the coincidence of colour with a certain geometrical ordering re-enacts the function of myth . |
| 2 | He meant by this that the areas of colour in his painting were not to be blended by the eye but were to be seen as acting on each other reciprocally , thus producing pictorial form and space . |
| 3 | Mourning and depression are not seen as overlapping through different processes ; rather , early loss or bereavement actually produces the vulnerability to psychiatric disorder ( which may not necessarily be depression ) . |
| 4 | Even if my assessment of its implications concerning the relative order of emergence of the intentional ingredient and of syntactic structure were held to be incorrect , the mechanism of that evolution might be of independent interest , and be seen as bearing on other problems besides ( especially in developmental psychology and theoretical linguistics ) . |
| 5 | The gourd-breasts and the leather-thonged sorcerer 's switch can be seen as referring to indigenous culture , as can the snakes ' heads with which the yokes of her skirt appear to terminate . |
| 6 | Given the price inelasticity argument , changes in duties in the annual budget are probably best seen as motivated by revenue-raising considerations . |
| 7 | In the small forces of the late 1950s these separations were made much of , with those in the adjacent forces essentially seen as belonging to another tribe . |
| 8 | And in all three , what is autonomous ( or authentic ) is what is seen as originating in some way from within the self ; what is in some way untainted by the conditioning or manipulation to which a woman has previously been subjected . |
| 9 | Both Rasta and Skin can be seen as bids for some kind of dignity , for what the late Pete Meadon , original mod and one-time manager of The Who once called ‘ clean living under difficult circumstances ’ : grace under pressure . |
| 10 | It is this tension that can then sometimes be seen as leading to central efforts to curb the independence of agencies whose initial freedom was provided by government . |
| 11 | All the movement organisations are seen as falling within this area , which also covers all governing bodies of sport and recreation . |
| 12 | Alternatively , they may be seen as relating to foreign investments which should be translated at the year-end ( the closing rate method ) . |
| 13 | The 1917 announcement and the reforms of 1919 known as the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms ( Chelmsford being the viceroy ) , which introduced the principle of ministerial responsibility into provincial government , were seen as means to this end . |
| 14 | His candidacy was seen as suffering from factional conflicts in his home state . |
| 15 | In this way the various inter-relationships between all the many factors which make up an individual 's life can be seen as contributing to that individual 's health , or ill-health . |
| 16 | Training seen as contributing to personal development |
| 17 | To a decreasing extent , the same principle can be seen as applying to other blood relations . |
| 18 | The network can be seen as divided into four layers : the first shows the syntactic parse tree for the sentence ; the second , the actual input words ; the third , a cluster of meanings for individual words ( with mutually inhibitory links ) ; and the fourth , a contextual interpretation of the input ( with activatory and inhibitory links between lexical categories and meanings ) . |
| 19 | Black employment at stations continued to decline until working on the railway was seen as detracting from black dignity . |
| 20 | As we have seen in an earlier chapter , by gentleman or noble person Spenser is thinking of a distinctive class of person , but his desire to fashion gentlemen nevertheless might be seen as directed at individual development . |
| 21 | Horatian metres both dictate and accommodate Horatian syntax ; in every poem there are striking effects of word order which , on the one hand , may be said to have been contrived , or willed by the poet , but on the other can be seen as arising from metrical necessity . |
| 22 | Within the range of units available , a historical perspective is adopted and contemporary themes and problems are seen as arising from important currents of thought within the Western tradition . |
| 23 | For the purposes of my present argument , however , of even greater importance than the influence exercised by Les Annales is the fact that their approach is clearly governed by the idea — definitive of concessive holism — that individualist and holist explanations are best seen as answering to different interests , and therefore as contributing , at least to some extent , to independent projects . |