Example sentences of "seen as [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The strength of the protest vote against the mainstream parties was seen as reflecting popular disillusionment with their unsuccessful attempts to resolve the country 's long-running linguistic problems and to complete constitutional reforms [ see p. 38465 ] . |
| 2 | Also , the fact that free , rational human beings are still seen as requiring organised discouragement from committing crime implies an acceptance of its ‘ naturalness ’ . |
| 3 | A person 's social life is seen as involving two kinds of performances . |
| 4 | They must be seen as inventing new rules for the future in accordance with their convictions about what is best for society as a whole , freed from any supposed rights flowing from consistency , but presenting these for unknown reasons in the false uniform of rules dug out of the past . |
| 5 | If we approach these tensions from the perspective of assuming that these represent the dialectical poles , or at least some of them ( for of course others could be discussed here had we the space : for example the tension between " knowing how " and " knowing that " in design activity ) of a design activity which encompasses all of these in a vertical moment of synthesis , a synthesis that is counterposed horizontally ( ie over time ) by the changing movements of the activity itself ( from product critique through to problem definition to cognitive modeling of potential solutions etc ) , a movement of understanding and practice which parallels in its sphere the circle of historical understanding and historical praxis ( and just as the latter is the " way in which history itself moves " so the former is the " way praxis itself moves " ) so design can be seen as embodying that movement in its movement from or across actuality ie in its activity of transformation from one set of " givens " to another ; in its movement from problem to product . |
| 6 | The professionalisation of management in the late 1950s and early 1960s coincided with other economic trends , which may be seen as providing fertile ground for the seeds of the search industry . |
| 7 | At first , new multi-disciplinary machinery and the procedures associated with it were seen as providing social workers with the necessary change of perspective . |
| 8 | The outcome of these cases is that the Chinese wall has not been seen as providing satisfactory protection for the interests of the former client and , despite the existence of a Chinese wall , the courts have required the law firms not to act on behalf of the new client . |
| 9 | For these suggest that holism and individualism can fruitfully be seen as serving different interests in social explanation . |
| 10 | In all three cases the changes in the host , if we accept that they are Darwinian adaptations for the benefit of the parasite , must be seen as extended phenotypic effects of parasite genes . |
| 11 | The key to this was seen as establishing close links with the private sector ’ ( Moore , 1986 , p. 9 ) . |
| 12 | Donald MacRae , a professor of sociology , for example , was seen as lending substantial support to the development of the polytechnics . |
| 13 | The civil service , the House of Lords , the Monarch , the judges , the police , the military , the security services , the Bank of England , a host of Quangos , and even the cabinet and the absolute premiership , are all seen as enjoying varying degrees of political power without any balancing responsibility to hold them in check — as we ourselves will suggest in Chapter 5 . |
| 14 | The vote was seen as marking another step towards ending the EP 's nomadic existence between Luxembourg , where the secretariat was based , Strasbourg , where its annual monthly plenary sessions were held , and Brussels , where committee meetings were held . |
| 15 | When anomalies come to be seen as posing serious problems for a paradigm , a period of ‘ pronounced professional insecurity ’ sets in . |
| 16 | Persistent truants , those truanting for weeks at a time , were seen as posing intractable problems for schools . |
| 17 | Accordingly , first up were East Village , Heavenly 's wild card from early on , when their timeless swoonings and groomings were seen as making some case for the plurality of the dance scene from which Heavenly first hatched . |
| 18 | However , there is a danger that parents who can not raise their children appropriately , or find a job , or provide sufficient income to support their family , or whose children engage in delinquent activities , are seen as having some form of personal failing or character weakness . |
| 19 | If employed , they can be seen as having obsolete skills in which it is not worth investing . |
| 20 | The consequent reactions , both at grass roots level in increasing lawlessness exemplified by the Mushala Gang , a guerilla group in the north-west , and among the elite in a coup attempt organized by Edward Shamwana , a well known Lusaka lawyer , were typical reactions to a regime which was seen as protecting vested interests from below and being inefficient and bureaucratic from above . |
| 21 | The ‘ sufficient interest ’ test as interpreted in the Fleet Street Casuals case can be seen as giving partial effect to such an argument . |
| 22 | This went back to the development of working-class antipathy to Thomas Malthus , who was seen as giving scientific justification to ruling-class opposition to reform , for after all the aim of his famous moral restraint was to convince the working class to postpone marriage as long as possible . |
| 23 | It was also seen as inflicting profound effects on individuals ' lives . |