Example sentences of "[was/were] see as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a close friend of the ANC president , Oliver Tambo — with Mr Mandela the three were seen as the organisation 's ruling ‘ troika ’ — he is certain to become a leading force in South African politics . |
| 2 | ‘ If Britain were seen as the cause of Maastricht 's failure , relegation to the second division of influence would be staring us in the face , ’ he warned . |
| 3 | It has often been pointed out that in less developed societies , old people were seen as the repository of wisdom needed for daily living as well as for spiritual guidance . |
| 4 | The forties were seen as the age of potential transition from ‘ young ’ to ‘ old ’ . |
| 5 | The enabling schemes were seen as the beginning and end of community care . |
| 6 | Individual conduct and moral reformation were seen as the key to public health . |
| 7 | Perhaps not surprisingly for some Americans , as Heath reported , it was not the Vietminh who were seen as the enemy but the French . |
| 8 | In the final analysis , neither specialization , nor " crude and slovenly workmanship " , nor technical inadequacies , were seen as the greatest dangers . |
| 9 | Together they 've got the attitude that comes with being a young band who 've just spent the last month in the studio recording an album , tentatively called ‘ Revelation/s ’ , which will more than fulfil the potential they displayed earlier this year when — along with the likes of near neighbours Ride ( both originally come from Oxford ) and Teenage Fanclub — they were seen as the frontrunners of the rising young guitar bands . |
| 10 | What , then , were seen as the essential elements of the British party model , and how do these elements add up so as to make for responsible party government and the popular control of public policy ? |
| 11 | The suburbans were seen as the epitome of clerkly conformism , complacency , and conservatism . |
| 12 | The allegations against Lacayo were seen as the latest attempt by right-wing elements in the ruling 14-party ruling coalition ( still known as the National Opposition Union , UNO ) to discredit the government , which it claimed was collaborating on security and economic matters with the left-wing Sandinista National Liberation Front ( FSLN ) , the main opposition party [ see p. 38957 ] . |
| 13 | This was interpreted variously but making secondary education free , providing better facilities and raising the school leaving age were seen as the most obvious means to that end . |
| 14 | Together they 've got the attitude that comes with being a young band who 've just spent the last month in the studio recording an album , tentatively called ‘ Revelation/s ’ , which will more than fulfil the potential they displayed earlier this year when — along with the likes of near neighbours Ride ( both originally come from Oxford ) and Teenage Fanclub — they were seen as the frontrunners of the rising young guitar bands . |
| 15 | In the medieval period these were seen as the custodians of an orthodoxy which was felt to be , if only potentially , challenged by self-authenticating mystical writings — a custodial role which seems to have lingered into the twentieth century . |
| 16 | They were seen as the agents of either an alien , infidel force ( the British ) or a dissolute secular power ( the Khedive ) . |
| 17 | Green activists have claimed that the Commission 's definition of development retains the mindset of the 1960s , when vast infrastructural improvement schemes were seen as the only way to improve depressed local economies . |
| 18 | Refuse collection was seen as the best service , pleasing 85% . |
| 19 | Sweeney Agonistes takes its audience back not simply to what was seen as the childhood , even babyhood of ritual and civilization , but further down the evolutionary ladder to the most primitive level of that ‘ amorphous protoplasm ’ which makes up the human egg . |
| 20 | For Engels its significance lies in the fact that it was seen as the basis of what was to be the most dramatic change in the history of mankind . |
| 21 | The Middle East was seen as the sea and , later , the air crossroads of the Eastern Hemisphere ; as the land bridge between Europe , Asia and Africa ; and as the main source of sterling oil upon which Britain and Western Europe were becoming increasingly dependent . |
| 22 | Geometry itself was seen as the science of ‘ simple motions ’ . |
| 23 | It blasphemed God 's goodness to declare that one day , the seventh , was holier than the other six ( the Christian Sunday was seen as the eighth day , pointing beyond time to eternity ) ; that some food or animals were clean and others unclean ; that some nations were less God 's children than others , or that a natural function , such as menstruation , made women unholy and hence unfit for contact with God . |
| 24 | Thirdly , as shown most clearly in the popular reactions to the massacre of the SA leadership in 1934 , Hitler was seen as the representative of ‘ popular justice ’ , the voice of the ‘ healthy sentiment of the people , the upholder of public morality , the embodiment of strong , if necessarily ruthless , action against the ‘ enemies of the people ’ to enforce ‘ law and order ’ . |
| 25 | Similarly , residential care has been preferred at some times more than others , so until the eighteenth century in the Netherlands and Flanders the foster family was seen as the best place for orphans , foundlings , and abandoned children and has long been extensively used to care for needy children in Scotland ( Packman , 1975 ; Pinchbeck and Hewitt , 1973 ; Pyck et al . , |
| 26 | The movement thus required economic programmes to parallel political ambitions , which would end what was seen as the domination of capitalism . |
| 27 | Recognizing the right to secede was seen as the means of securing the unity of the peoples of the old empire in a new State , not of precipitating disintegration . |
| 28 | As the Renaissance was seen as the most enlightened period in European history this was the style chosen for the following colourful buildings . |
| 29 | Almost as soon as he arrived at Highbury Chapman persuaded his chairman that the team needed Charlie Buchan , the long-shining star of Sunderland who , at thirty-four , was seen as the man to inspire and lend experience to the faltering Arsenal attack . |
| 30 | Even so , the machine factor remained an important consideration , in particular what was seen as the growing practice of instructing boys in a single process . |