Example sentences of "[adv] seen as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The army , long seen as standing above the fray , dirtied its reputation in Kashmir earlier this year . |
| 2 | Ozawa , 50 , who was widely seen as seen as the real leader of the new group , firmly committed himself to comprehensive political reform . |
| 3 | This clutch of appointments , together with her post-Falklands dominance in the Cabinet , was widely seen as heralding the introduction of a Prime Minister 's Department . |
| 4 | The lack of substantial commitments to action is widely seen as reflecting conflicting interests and clashes within the government , particularly among the Departments of Transport , Energy , Agriculture and Trade and Industry where the environment is a contentious issue . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The trial of Winnie Mandela had been marked by intense media and public interest , and was widely seen as having brought about the collapse of her personal popularity among ANC followers . |
| 7 | This view was widely seen as having implications for future legal actions by pressure groups . |
| 8 | Only the Lithuanians accounted for so large a proportion of the population of their own republic , and the measure was widely seen as blocking rather than facilitating a transition to fully independent status . |
| 9 | Johnny Hallyday 's Hamlet , for instance , was not widely seen as threatening the supremacy of Olivier and Gielgud . |
| 10 | The announcement , which followed a meeting of 364 UDF leaders , was widely seen as marking the end of an era in the anti-apartheid struggle . |
| 11 | Pressure will also be put on Serbia , widely seen as backing the Bosnian Serbs in the conflict . |
| 12 | The framework for an Asian Free Trade Area ( AFTA ) , and formation of a " non-institutional " discussion forum to be called the East Asian Economic Caucus ( EAEC ) , were widely seen as diluting the proposals put forward by Malaysia at the beginning of the year [ see p. 38101 ] for an East Asian Economic Grouping ( EAEG ) . |
| 13 | The Cabinet reshuffle on Sept. 16 — the first since January 1989 — was widely seen as paving the way for the next election , expected to be held ahead of the constitutional deadline of June 1992 . |
| 14 | Some firms have adopted a formula which reserves a power to prevent more than one partner departing in any given period ( say a year ) , with complementary provisions to determine priority as between notices served on the same day , though in these frantic head-hunting times when whole departments may be recruited at a stroke , such provisions are realistically best seen as providing a basis for negotiation ( and perhaps financial adjustment by way of compensation ) . |
| 15 | Given the price inelasticity argument , changes in duties in the annual budget are probably best seen as motivated by revenue-raising considerations . |
| 16 | Note that while the first three kinds of information are relative strictly to the deictic centre , here specifically the social standing of the speaker , formality is perhaps best seen as involving a relation between all participant roles and situation ( but see Irvine , 1979 ; J. M. Atkinson , 1982 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ It is somehow seen as trying to soften the cross-examination of an alleged victim , and is somehow seen as more acceptable . ’ |
| 20 | The move was generally seen as intended to draw centrist voters away from the conservative parties in the 1993 elections . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | By and large , these new firms are : ‘ overwhelmingly British-owned , single , independent establishments of relatively small size ’ , in which employee relations are generally seen as involving good informal communications and flexible working practices ( quoted in the Financial Times , 20 February 1987 ) . |
| 23 | Fundamental to British education is the aim to help all children achieve their full potential , and this is generally seen as involving building on the strengths children bring with them to schools . |
| 24 | So notions and functions are generally seen as replacing linguistic structures as units of content , and a notional/functional ( and therefore communicative ) orientation is seen to be incompatible with a concern for grammatical structure and meanings intrinsic in form . |
| 25 | appeared to have little interest in the sort of discussion groups generally seen as furthering mutual support and understanding … |
| 26 | Societies are thus seen as made up of three interconnected structures , each of which is seen as a mode of production , transforming raw materials into commodities . |
| 27 | A representative system of government , coupled with a division of powers , was thus seen as providing safeguards against the dangers of democracy . |
| 28 | The overconstrained product design process is thus seen as emphasizing the weight of the analysis phase and its direct influence on both the scheming and manufacturing stages ( see Figure I .4 ) . |
| 29 | Since the Harrods department store bombing of December 1983 [ see p. 32809 ] , the IRA had desisted from attacks on the mainland in which the public was directly endangered , and the station bombings were thus seen as marking a change in IRA tactics . |
| 30 | 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 . |