Example sentences of "[was/were] see [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These measures were seen as indirectly reducing condoned truancy . |
| 2 | American-owned firms were seen as particularly bad . |
| 3 | The ‘ foreign interests ’ of the Federal Republic of Germany , in terms of Blackmun J. 's tripartite analysis , were seen as particularly compelling and no good cause had been shown for doing other than resort to the Convention 's procedures . |
| 4 | Local authorities were subject not only to central government-initiated legislative changes , but financially were seen as increasingly dependent on central government grants . |
| 5 | Many women of a previous generation , in which sex and reproduction were seen as inevitably linked , believed that sex stopped — or at all events should stop — with the " change of life " . |
| 6 | Overall , though the various criminal justice agencies were seen as differentially culpable with regard to racial discrimination , racially prejudiced attitudes were thought to be widespread . |
| 7 | Any joyous note there was came very occasionally from the sector managers , but they were seen as too much under corporate control to exercise real individuality of style . |
| 8 | Second , the division of responsibility within the county areas was seen as a weakness ; and many local authorities were seen as too small to accept the responsibilities appropriate to the needs of their areas . |
| 9 | Debbie was criticised in some quarters for including works that were seen as too ‘ traditional ’ , referring to older forms of artmaking such as drawing , painting and sculpture . |
| 10 | State policies were seen as merely modifying the particular application of the law . |
| 11 | Demands from local groups for increased participation in the processes of decision making concerning housing and welfare were seen as politically inspired and met with hostility . |
| 12 | The Office of Fair Trading 's Consumer Use of Credit Survey showed that the Citizens Advice Bureaux were seen as far the most obvious place to turn to for advice on problems of meeting credit payments with 69 per cent of the 2,155 respondents to the survey . |
| 13 | Religious conviction , in that age , and still more religious observance , were seen as naturally conservative ; and the Christian revival of the 1940s was openly regressive , anxious above all that the world might be changing too fast and too far . |
| 14 | The RMCs were seen as perhaps the major vehicle for such provision and it is encouraging that they are beginning to make a substantial contribution by developing a wide range of in-service short courses and workshops , which in some areas are showing signs of laying the foundation for longer qualification-based programmes . |
| 15 | This development was effected by a government white paper , The Reorganisation of Central Government ( Cmnd.4506 ) issued in October 1970 PESC , PAR and CFRS were seen as basically administrative procedures for facilitating political decision-making and subsequent managerial control of implementation . |
| 16 | In the Kerner report , police tactics and the role of the media were seen as especially significant . |
| 17 | The British government was seen as completely dominated by Jewish interests since the Marconi scandal , with Isaacs , Montagu and Mond allegedly pulling the strings behind Lloyd George . |
| 18 | Finally and perhaps most importantly , Lovell criticised the narrowness of Lacanian psychoanalytic concerns because of their focus on the construction of individual subjectivity rather than on ways in which a collective subject can be constituted , and because the Lacanian subject was seen as ultimately powerless . |
| 19 | After victory over China in 1895 made territorial control a reality , the haphazard search for political and economic influence ( direct or indirect ) of earlier years became a systematic one , in which emulation of Western imperialism was seen as both practicable and desirable . |
| 20 | At a time when scientific advance was seen as universally beneficial , the nuclear industry was judged to be at the cutting edge of technological endeavour . |
| 21 | Despite explanations that the various options had been carefully considered in advance in anticipation of a disappointing ballot result , her action was seen as yet further evidence of the style of government which had helped precipitate the leadership crisis . |
| 22 | The merger failed because , in the post-Westland environment it was seen as yet another sop to the United States , and more specifically , because GM insisted that Land Rover should be included in the package with Leyland Vehicles . |
| 23 | The star system , that ‘ Hollywood poison ’ , according to Hugh Castle , was seen as yet another concession to the masses , for , as Clifford Howard explained , ‘ the crowd ( and it is the crowd that supports the movies ) can not appreciate entertainment in the abstract , any more than it can thus appreciate art or religion ’ . |
| 24 | Its lack of a well-developed indigenous middle class to act as a focus for a national identity meant that the failure of the nobility to resist partition was seen as exactly that : not a failure of the Polish people , but a failure of the Polish nobility . |
| 25 | In this sense , the military was seen as simply part of the nation 's organizational structure under party control and direction , like everyone else . |
| 26 | It was seen as particularly acute in June for S4 pupils . |
| 27 | The decision was seen as particularly embarrassing for Aquino as the original charge had been selected because of its severity , in an attempt to deter further coup attempts by demonstrating a new determination to punish insurrectionists . |
| 28 | Kerrey 's withdrawal was seen as particularly good news for Clinton as it offered the prospect of removing from the campaign the rancorous legacy of the Vietnam war . |
| 29 | A place at grammar school was seen as hardly more genuinely open to everyone than a fee-paying place at a public school ; and so the move towards comprehensive schools was made , largely on grounds of justice . |
| 30 | Admittedly war with the USSR was seen as only a distant possibility . |