Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] see [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the communists were widely seen as an anti-national party , free elections would have been a disaster . |
| 2 | Both these stories were widely seen as an attempt to ‘ shoe-in ’ Gordon Brown rather than Smith in the event of a leadership vacancy , although Brown , it must be said , had no part in them . |
| 3 | The reforms were widely seen as a reaction to public controversy over insider trading practices sparked by the emergence in January 1989 of the Pechiney affair [ see pp. 36403 ; 36706 ] . |
| 4 | In January 1990 tense relations between the Justice Ministry and the warders ' unions , as well as low staff morale , were widely seen as the indirect cause of a series of 28 prison escapes in six weeks . |
| 5 | Although the PNP campaigned on local issues , the elections were widely seen as a test of the party 's popularity following the devaluation and austerity measures introduced in February [ see below ] . |
| 6 | The moves were widely seen as part of an attempt to end the 15-year civil war by meeting conditions demanded by the opposition UNITA rebels . |
| 7 | Remarks made on Dec. 6 by an APLA spokesperson were widely seen as a " declaration of war " on the white community , and APLA was also believed to have been responsible for various other incidents . |
| 8 | Turkey and Iran were widely seen to be vying for influence in the area . |
| 9 | An additional comment , raised during the plenary session , was that those from ethnic communities were rarely seen as a positive resource able to offer a new expertise , but that , rather , they were regarded as being doubly disadvantaged in that they were often seen as not being fluent users of English and not being part of the British culture . |
| 10 | Strangers were rarely seen on that private and closely guarded property . |
| 11 | Moustaches and beards were rarely seen on skins ; shaving was obligatory and stubble not accepted . |
| 12 | The couple had lived at the bungalow since 1938 , but were rarely seen in later years . |
| 13 | Most of the current generation of older people were born at a time when the motor car was an unusual sight on the streets , aeroplanes were rarely seen in the skies , telephones were rare , radio and television were many years from invention . |
| 14 | Nobody knew what legal matters they had to sort out as they were spied from Martindale 's Gate traversing the shrubbery paths of The Hall in deep conversation , and they were rarely seen in company in the village except on an occasional outing together to buy postage stamps . |
| 15 | Among his innovations was the provision of charts , bound up as atlases , for the use of officers in Her Majesty 's ships , in addition to those specially provided for the ship 's navigation , which were rarely seen by officers other than the captain and the navigator . |
| 16 | These houses were rarely seen by travellers who passed through the town on their way from Derby to Manchester . |
| 17 | In the eyes of such politicians , industrial managers were not seen as the creators of the nation 's wealth , and the providers of job opportunities for the people , but as despoilers of the environment ; obsolete men , peddling obsolete views , who did n't really fit in with the new social scheme of things . |
| 18 | Few results were expected ‘ from the bombing of these British spa and provincial towns ’ which were not seen as fitting retaliation for the destruction in Germany . |
| 19 | It should be noted that videos were not seen as a substitute for training but rather as a useful tool for the instructor . |
| 20 | When first envisaged , then , the lectures were not seen as the core of a forthcoming book , even though ( with their Wagnerian connection ) they bore on his current preoccupation — and even though he was currently casting around for a subject for a book . |
| 21 | Even if literary texts were not seen as copies of reality , they were nevertheless regarded as copies of structuralist models . |
| 22 | Relativity and , more importantly , quantum mechanics , were not seen on the whole as a challenge to the idea of the certainty of physics ; on the contrary , they were often presented as proof of the exciting inroads physics was making . |
| 23 | These authors found that whereas enhanced platelet function ( increased aggregation to ADP ) was detectable as early as three days following induction of diabetes , elevated levels of the Factor VIII components were not seen for 14–28 days . |
| 24 | The Act of 1918 set the scene of the entire political world between the wars , often through consequences that were not seen for a generation . |
| 25 | Animals who underwent proximal enterectomy alone demonstrated acinar cell degranulation typical of the response of raised CCK levels , but these changes were not seen after treatment with antagonist . |
| 26 | In these studies , however , the rise in PYY concentrations was not detectable until the end of a one hour infusion of oleate in the colon , and the highest PYY concentrations were not seen until one hour after the infusion had finished . |
| 27 | Often they were not seen by their owners for weeks . |
| 28 | In this study , the most striking histological finding was the presence of extensive amyloid infiltration of the smooth muscle in the AL and the AH cases , but such amyloid deposits were not seen in the AA cases . |
| 29 | A surprising observation is that the thrombosed grafts were confined to the patients who received a low dose of aprotinin ; graft occlusions were not seen in patients allocated to receive a high dose or placebo . |
| 30 | Early approaches which saw the state as the' instrument' or tool of the dominant class , faithfully tending to its needs , were soon seen to be inadequate . |