Example sentences of "[prep] be see as [noun] " in BNC.

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1 American critics have already applauded Brian 's efforts , and his mother Jane — co-founder of the Muppets — and sisters Lisa and Cheryl feel he has earned the right to be seen as Jim 's natural successor .
2 But , in so far as they are to be seen as sons of the lost primal mother , they clearly represent the manic alternative to the depressive self-punishment of the followers of Cybele or the castrated and killed sons of the Great Mother represented by Attis and Tammuz , by the dead and dismembered Osiris , or the crucified Christ .
3 If they have stopped working , they are likely to be seen as dependents — to be looked after more or less generously by the provision of pensions and health services , but with little relevance to educational policy ; simply , they are seen as a cost .
4 In the event , the CEP evidence was eventually given by the individuals responsible under the banner of the then Cornwall-based campaigner George Pritchard , although it would undoubtedly have helped its status to be seen as part of the local councils ' case .
5 So they have to be seen as part of a larger whole within which they can somehow be related .
6 Local political activity came to be seen as part and parcel of changes taking place within capitalist society as a whole , especially within the capitalist state as it attempts to manage and transform a social and economic system in profound crisis .
7 Musical flair alone has n't been the reason why the jazz poets/warriors have hit the ground running , it always helps to be seen as part of a fashionable movement .
8 It indicates her willingness to be the dutiful wife yet refusal to be seen as part of a united couple .
9 I do n't really want to be seen as part of the team and it 's not because I do n't like them — they 're all nice people — it 's just that I do n't want to be The Word 's latest wanker .
10 Alongside the drawings will be displayed examples of metalwork and silverwork by architect/designers such as Adam and Kent , while the project is intended to be seen as part of a conceptual whole with the recently-opened ornament and twentieth-century galleries , as well as with the Lloyd Wright display .
11 In this paper the unfairness of this professional attitude is argued and encouragement given to the need for residential care to be seen as part of a continuum of services for children in care .
12 In general , however , the developments of BUF anti-semitism from a rather vague ideological formulation to a virulent political weapon has to be seen as part of the strategy of lining up fascist sentiments behind regional issues , which attracted popular attention in different localities .
13 At the turn of the century other ideas later to be seen as part of algebra were coming from the pen of Carl Friedrich Gauss , one of the greatest mathematicians who ever lived .
14 A reform suggested below , to introduce a flexible school leaving age so that some fourteen-year-olds can begin to undertake part-time training with part-time work , needs to be seen as part of this overall training programme .
15 It needs to be seen as part of the renewed offensive launched by militant evangelicalism in the 1880s , which influenced a whole range of single issue campaigns and brought pressure to bear on the Liberal Party hierarchy .
16 The individual and the nation needed to be seen as part of the evolutionary development of the race , through processes which obeyed observable and scientifically predictable laws .
17 In so far as people do move , they move wholly in response to capital 's demand ; in so far as they are active , they tend to be seen as part of a huge block of ‘ labour ’ .
18 It needs to be seen as part of a continuum of experience from the most ordinary and humdrum to the most sublime and special .
19 The point is not that the theological pronouncements of scientists are to be discounted but rather that they do sometimes have to be seen as efforts at mediation .
20 Its new pesticide proposals are regarded as the strictest in the world : " organic " and " biodynamic " farmers are to be seen as pioneers pointing to new chemical-free techniques for the rest of the agricultural community .
21 While the legislation is clearly to be seen as evidence of a government 's entitlement to legislate in connection with a national responsibility , it is also interpretable as evidence of the government 's impatience with local authorities .
22 If we are not to infer from Anderson 's breach of Grice 's Co-operative Principle that he is deliberately being rude ( unlikely , when McKendrick is a complete stranger to him ) then it is most likely to be seen as evidence of his vagueness or , less favourably , his self-centredness .
23 It seems that all the things that we met with in life and thought of as advantages in the beginning , are found to be grave disadvantages ; and all those things that in our youth we thought of as severe disadvantages , at last come to be seen as benefits .
24 In contrast , the sociological model outlined above , is also interested in why certain forms of behaviour come to be seen as abuse of children , and how certain individuals come to be labelled as child abusers .
25 For the purposes of this book , just two assertions will have to content us : first , some works have been intended by their makers to be seen as art ; second , there is a consensus today that other works are to be described as art .
26 They feel , for example , that St Paul 's restrictions on women 's activities — in the early Christian communities to whom he was writing — are to be seen as regulations applying in all situations in the Church for all time .
27 Pornography , prostitution and homosexuality continue to be seen as variations on a theme to this day , something we implicitly acknowledged when we adopted the word ‘ gay ’ as our own .
28 The standard of the bishop of Tours 's Latin used to be seen as ruling out this possibility .
29 Du Cann 's fundamental problem has been that he wanted to be seen as cross between a Tory grandee and country squire .
30 Attitudinal justifications and criticisms are not to be seen as epiphenomena , tacked onto some more basic psychological predisposition , but are integral to attitudes qua attitudes .
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