Example sentences of "seen as [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Haughey 's espousal of liberal reforms was seen as a response to the shock result of the November 1990 presidential election [ see p. 37868 ] , in which the victory of Mary Robinson , a woman supported by the Labour Party and the Workers ' Party , was seen as reflecting a major shift in voters ' attitudes and a challenge to the traditional political dominance of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael . |
| 2 | Curiously , however , marriage was not seen as requiring an ecclesiastical ceremony before the twelfth century . |
| 3 | Apparently ruling out any form of legislative veto for minority groups ( a point on which the government side had long insisted ) , the document was nevertheless seen as containing a notable concession in its acceptance of a bicameral parliamentary system . |
| 4 | This world system and its evolution are seen as providing a historical framework , an account of world history . |
| 5 | Plowden was seen as providing a medium-term strategy for economic control , though to function satisfactorily it required an adequate institutional structure . |
| 6 | To this extent he can be seen as supporting a synthesizing discourse of the kind that had been increasingly welcomed by the Review of English Studies during the second half of the 1930s . |
| 7 | Too often a job , any job , for a refugee child was seen as bestowing a great favour in return for which sacrifices were expected . |
| 8 | And travel and tourism , while still not major polluters in the ‘ smokestack industry ’ mould , are increasingly being seen as bearing a particular responsibility for environmental improvements . |
| 9 | Similarly , the notion of social development through increasing differentiation and individuation has had a considerable place in later sociological theories , although its political implications have been judged in diverse ways ; from one aspect social differentiation may be seen as creating a mutual dependence of individuals and groups which is a fundamental element in a stable democratic system , while from another aspect ( as in Durkheim 's theory ) it may be regarded as a danger to the political order if it leads to excessive individualism , and then needs to be checked by a moral consensus embodied in the state . |
| 10 | So today the needs of the mentally ill and handicapped are seen as demanding a wide range of facilities : homes , centres , clinics and so forth , served by doctors , nurses , teachers , psychologists , psychotherapists , speech therapists and residential care workers , linked by a body of trained social workers and placed within a tolerant , accepting and truly caring community . |
| 11 | The notion of acquired distinctiveness was originally devised by theorists wedded to an associationist interpretation of all forms of learning ( Miller and Dollard ( 1941 ) , drawing heavily on the S-R theory of Hull ( e.g. 1939 ) ) , who were thus seen as offering an associative account of perceptual learning . |
| 12 | Roh 's decision was also seen as marking a clear break in the increasingly tense relationship between himself and his designated heir , Kim Young Sam . |
| 13 | Young black people were seen as engendering an anti-British culture that , because of its criminal overtones , inevitably lead to conflict with the forces of law and order . |
| 14 | This puts black women directly in the firing line : firstly , because they are seen as playing a key role in reproducing the alien culture , and , secondly , because their fertility is identified as excessive and therefore threatening . |
| 15 | A referendum on self-government held on March 21 in Tatarstan was seen as posing a potential challenge to the integrity of the Russian Federation . |
| 16 | In a similar way , the state 's provision of collective resources can be seen as ensuring a key commodity for competitive and anarchic capitalist societies ; that of a refreshed and productive workforce . |
| 17 | The second language list , which included those languages other than the ‘ major ’ EC languages , should rather be seen as representing a major step forward in the recognition of the importance of , for example , Urdu . |
| 18 | A surge by Tsomet from two to eight seats was seen as representing a new phenomenon in Israeli politics " right-wing anti-religious sentiment . |
| 19 | The modern western city remains the centre of many activities of society , but was seen as representing a large planning problem from the early 1960s . |
| 20 | It is also important to remember that where jobs are indeed a problem , as in Ireland , postgraduate research positions should be clearly seen as making a major contribution to employment — where else would employment cost so little and the employee undergo intensive training ? |
| 21 | Where the services can not be seen as making an economic contribution , they are clearly improving the quality of life for members of the community , which is presumably the ultimate goal of raising productivity and standards of living anyway . |
| 22 | Parliamentary and media responses to the Report varied greatly , although it was widely seen as making an important contribution to the debate about how to respond to the riots and prevent the outbreak of violence in the future . |
| 23 | She suggests that this was perhaps because women have traditionally been seen as having a passive relation to language which is similar to that of a simultaneous interpreter who translates the ideas of others but does not produce any of her own ( 32 ) . |
| 24 | Adultery therefore should be seen as having a symbolic quality , amounting to sexual conduct outrageous to the other . |
| 25 | They were more than the part-time special constables in the British tradition , in that they were seen as having a social role in the context of an individual 's responsibility to his or her community . |
| 26 | In all these versions the family is seen as having a direct relationship with the wider society , being that social form within which people are assigned a place in society and where they internalise the values of that place and which shapes sexual attitudes to conform to wider social needs . |
| 27 | Scientific computing is seen as having a high priority within RBG . |
| 28 | The ‘ societal reaction ’ that defines crime and deviance was also seen as having a profound effect on the criminals and deviants themselves . |
| 29 | Futhermore , the spatial aspects of this culture are seen as having a special significance . |
| 30 | If account is to be taken of what has been described as concern with the well-being of the system , then " the best way of earning public confidence is the most direct : to be clearly seen as doing a good job " ( Becher et al 1981:156 ) . |