Example sentences of "[adv] been see as " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , what is most interesting is that a deliberate attempt was made to sell it as a concept rather than as what might have hitherto been seen as a package of infrastructural measures . |
| 2 | Within hours of the IDF departure Hezbollah militiamen returned to the villages , reportedly accompanied by members of what had hitherto been seen as their main rival within the Lebanese Shia population , the Syrian-backed Amal militia . |
| 3 | This has put pressure on the service sector to provide services that can perform tasks that have hitherto been seen as the province of being provided in the home ( e.g. more eating out in restaurants and more holidays — often two per year — because of increased disposable income ) . |
| 4 | This limitation has only been seen as a major crisis by Philips since the emergence of DVI compression-decompression . |
| 5 | Physical beauty has long been seen as a reflection of God 's presence in the world ; mystical texts describe the divine beauty to be found in creation as the female spirit , the bride and the beloved . |
| 6 | Monetary union has long been seen as a way of bringing about greater economic and political unity within the Community . |
| 7 | THE NEED FOR the majority of county cricketers to cobble together alternative employment for themselves for half the year has long been seen as a compromise on the professionalism of the game . |
| 8 | The organization had long been seen as a forum for developing countries to press their interests and often for confrontation between developing and developed countries . |
| 9 | This has rightly been seen as an impetus towards the fusion of legacy and trust . |
| 10 | Although many of their fans are too young to realise , United have generally been seen as the town 's two-bit team , little more than camels in the eyes of the Dens Park faithful . |
| 11 | The increase of State control which has already been seen as a feature of military organization in this period is also visible where navies are concerned . |
| 12 | What needs to be explained is why Tory Anglicans , who had so strongly defended James 's right to the succession during his brother 's final years , and who have normally been seen as the Crown 's allies in an attempt to establish royal absolutism in the early 1680s , should have turned so quickly against the King . |
| 13 | Freight and parcels had always been seen as distinct entities , and these naturally formed two of the new sectors . |
| 14 | Domination of the Middle East had always been seen as an important element of British strategy since Nelson defeated Napoleon at the Battle of the Nile in 1798 ; and it remained so into the 1940s and early 1950s . |
| 15 | For nearly thirty years that crusade has been regarded as one of his least successful , whereas a later British Crusade at Earls Court in London in 1966 has always been seen as a triumph . |
| 16 | In Christian thought , the family has always been seen as an essential unit in the community . |
| 17 | In America treacherous and corruptible insiders have always been seen as a potential danger . |
| 18 | The library , in which the tradition of Warburg is enshrined , has always been seen as the Institute 's essential purpose . |
| 19 | ‘ She has always been seen as a typical Sloane Ranger . |
| 20 | Patrilocal residence , where women join the households of their husbands rather than vice versa , and the continued strength of the system of domestic production , where families consume most of what they produce rather than buy and sell in the market , have always been seen as obstacles to capitalist development in the Third World and as strong reinforcements for the maintenance of feudal-patriarchal relations . |
| 21 | The school library has always been seen as a source of information and resources for pupils and teachers . |
| 22 | Those on the left who have dared not to act in moderation — the Hattons , Grants and Livingstones — have been violently pilloried , whilst their counterparts on the right — the Tebbits , the Brittans — have usually been seen as pioneers of reform . |
| 23 | But this brutality and coercion has been seen not merely as a question of physical or ‘ external ’ coercion or constraint ; the force of subjection has also been seen as a psychic one , invading women 's very selves . |
| 24 | Not only is this seen as an important element in strengthening the drive to promote ‘ value for money ’ but it has also been seen as an important cog in the machinery of accountability to Parliament . |
| 25 | Sweated trades have traditionally been seen as a residual sector , and in some traditional women 's occupations this was undoubtedly the case . |
| 26 | This proliferating self-examination , however , has often been seen as an unlikeable , irresponsible tendency in contemporary literature . |
| 27 | Christian growth and education has often been seen as a job for the church , which has robbed the home of its crucial importance for its shaping of Christian character . |
| 28 | His move to Giverny in 1883 has often been seen as a turning away from the Parisian avant-garde and a retreat into the private world of his own aesthetic affairs . |
| 29 | The continued dominance of City and Civil Service elites has often been seen as a barrier to dynamism in British industry ; in fact , it has merely been one aspect of a secure and integrated dominant class , linked by kinship , ownership of wealth and distinctive patterns of education . |
| 30 | An advocate of Copernican astronomy , an infinite universe , and a plurality of worlds , Bruno has often been seen as the archetypal scientific martyr . |