Example sentences of "[be] [adv] see [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has been widely seen as an area where employment can be created and economic vitality encouraged . |
| 2 | The shamanic practices we have investigated are rightly seen as an archaic mysticism . |
| 3 | The reason these are best seen as an innate , given set of instincts is that such a view suggests it is not possible to conceive of how man could be man and not experience these unconscious impulses of hatred and killing which some human beings act out . |
| 4 | Manufacturers are encouraged to extend their range for this group who are also seen as an obvious growth area for alcohol , off-the-shelf medicines , hair colourants and restorers ! |
| 5 | Many gardeners — and visitors — are getting younger , partly because of the current ecological obsession and also because gardens are often seen as an extension of the living room . |
| 6 | Gold prices are often seen as an indicator of inflation , a view reinforced by the high gold price during the inflationary years of the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 7 | What is forgotten is the limitations of coverage of both these works , as can be easily seen by an item by item comparison of sections of the two books . |
| 8 | The morning after the ark is put in Dagon 's temple , they discover the figure of their great god sprawled on the floor , his face to the ground , in what would have been readily seen as an attitude of worship . |
| 9 | Since the communists were widely seen as an anti-national party , free elections would have been a disaster . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The orthodox gave the latter term a pejorative sense ; the apocryphal texts were correctly seen as an attempt to replace the books accepted by the mainstream communities and included in their church lectionary as authentic representatives of the apostolic tradition of faith . |
| 12 | Despite these criticisms , the new programme is widely seen as an advance on the Karnataka Social Forestry Project , inaugurated in 1983 with World Bank funding , which led to the expropriation of common land for eucalyptus plantations , and clashes between vilagers and foresters . |
| 13 | But a female 's induction into the domestic role unlike these other schemes — lacks a formal structure , and consequently is rarely seen as an occupational apprenticeship . |
| 14 | So , if our tiny survey is to be considered representative ( and I suspect that it is ) , then ‘ Meat Is Murder ’ is generally seen as an honest statement but not one which will cause a drastic change of thinking ( or eating ) patterns . |
| 15 | Decentralisation is thus seen as an alternative to the bureaucratic practices that we investigated in the previous chapter . |
| 16 | It is best seen as an anomalous departure from the general principle of self-determination . |
| 17 | The pattern of population redistribution around the country 's metropolitan regions is best seen as an evolving one ( Champion , 1983 ) , though the broad picture is one of absolute loss of population from the older urban cores in favour of the newer suburbs and ( increasingly ) the surrounding towns . |
| 18 | Whole group drama is best seen as an organisational strategy , a way of organising all the small group and individual work which takes place within a unifying fictional context . |
| 19 | Mannerism is usually seen as an RCA development ; but once again we find that it was already developing during the Sun period , notably in ‘ Baby Let's Play House ’ ( 1955 ) . |
| 20 | Although the recent decisions on the Channel Tunnel and the PBKAL ( Paris-Brussels-Cologne-Amsterdam-London ) line are signs that Britain may be coming in from the cold , the country is still seen as an isolated outpost of a European transport network in which the main traffic flows will run north to south linking the industrial areas of France , Germany and Italy . |
| 21 | The state is still seen as an instrument which can and must be captured by the working class . |
| 22 | As well as being an aid then , being cool is also seen as an obstacle to digging deep into the ultimate reserves under stringent conditions to produce a better performance . |
| 23 | The second myth is also seen in an early poem , The Rape of Lucrece , which has its origins in the story of Tarquin 's rape . |
| 24 | The notion of full employment is now seen as an ideal of the past . |
| 25 | Debt , as experienced by clients is often seen as an aspect of another problem . |
| 26 | The memorisation of the textbook is often seen as an end in itself . |
| 27 | Medical rehabilitation units attached to some hospitals specialize in helping disabled patients maximize their potential and overcome their disabilities , and rehabilitation is increasingly seen as an integral part of a full treatment programme . |
| 28 | The latter is increasingly seen as an important factor in rural development . |
| 29 | A general degree is sometimes seen as an alternative for students who are not up to honours standard ; this is largely though not entirely the case with the Scottish ordinary degree . |
| 30 | Within academic circles , to cite a popular work , other than to condemn it , is sometimes seen as an admission that the author is a ‘ lightweight ’ or a populist , and there is considerable peer pressure not to include such citations . |