Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] be seen as " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a statement issued on Sept. 25 he argued that " not all hostels are associated with violence and the problem should properly be seen as one of criminality in a limited number of hostels " . |
| 2 | They should rather be seen as complex social activities involving different expressions of human concern , the same individuals often participating in both . |
| 3 | The election of Tatwine , a priest in the monastery of Breedon on the Hill in the territory of the Middle Angles , to be archbishop of Canterbury on the death of Beorhtwald in early 731 ( HE V , 23 ) , should perhaps be seen as an expression of Aethelbald 's influence , and likewise that of Nothhelm , a priest of London , to Canterbury in 734–5 , and of Cuthbert , probably the former bishop of Hereford , to Canterbury in 740 . |
| 4 | Clovis 's campaigns and ruses against other Frankish rulers should perhaps be seen as power struggles within a small kin-group , and therefore as precursors of the civil wars that were to follow , but we know nothing about the connections between the petty kings of the years prior to 511 . |
| 5 | Geoffrey Elton has consistently argued that this revolutionary new strategy was the brainchild of the recently appointed secretary to the privy council , Thomas Cromwell , who should thus be seen as the sole architect of the Henrician Reformation . |
| 6 | When viewed in this light Robert Summers 's thesis that the legal realist movement should best be seen as part of a tradition of ‘ pragmatic instrumentalism ’ in American jurisprudence seems basically correct . |
| 7 | If , as Parsons puts it , there can never be an id-impulse as such for the individual , since it must always be seen as part of the expressive symbolism of a common culture , then it is not possible to envisage the possibility of someone being in conflict with their society 's common culture . |
| 8 | Today we see that women who have the right qualities can exercise authority equally with men , but we are also coming to a fresh recognition that Christian leadership should always be seen as service . |
| 9 | More generally , Unger ( 1979 ) , following Eagly ( 1978 ) , suggests that psychological gender should always be seen as the outcome both of social or contextual , and of psychological or process factors . |
| 10 | She thought it very bad for the image of women that they should always be seen as the people most likely to follow their hearts and not their heads . |
| 11 | In what must clearly be seen as an empire-building move , with particular reference to Christie 's ambitions in the Far East , Christie 's International plc have acquired Spink and Son Ltd , the adjacent fine art dealers and auctioneers , for £7.1 million ( $10.65 million ) . |
| 12 | It must also be seen as one interpretation of that theory : Marx 's extensive writings have been variously interpreted and , since his death , several schools of Marxism have developed . |
| 13 | But social policy making must also be seen as a political process . |
| 14 | Conservation , to architect and public alike , is not a fad , a fetter or a curse : it is a necessity which should also be seen as a stimulating challenge . |
| 15 | All existing buildings should also be seen as a potential resource . |
| 16 | On the contrary , ducal influence in East Anglia should probably be seen as another component of this influential court connection . |
| 17 | On the contrary , ducal influence in East Anglia should probably be seen as another component of this influential court connection . |
| 18 | He should probably be seen as a cleric of some piety ; in Gregory 's miracle stories he is associated with the cult of Stremonius at Issoire . |
| 19 | And in this case the workers engaged in the production of luxury goods should now be seen as a social cost . |
| 20 | But the point is that making profits for shareholders must now be seen as a mechanism for promoting the public interest , and not as an end in itself . |
| 21 | While pressure-group influence varies over time and from issue to issue , such groupings must now be seen as an integral part of local public administration . |
| 22 | Pellet structure must therefore be seen as an extremely variable character , and one that it would be difficult to quantify in any meaningful way . |
| 23 | These tax reforms must therefore be seen as part of the wider reform programme advocated here ( see also Frank Field and Paul Omerod , ‘ The low-tax springboard to freedom ’ , Guardian , 2 January 1989 ) . |
| 24 | For this reason alone , the introduction of Lates to Lake Victoria may soon be seen as one of the great biological disasters of the twentieth century . |
| 25 | The outcome may thus be seen as a situation in which there is considerable trade-union militancy with respect to wages , hours of work and related issues , but relatively little expression of class consciousness in the broader sense of any profound awareness or conviction of living in a society the nature of which is predominantly determined by class relations , and of being engaged in a continuing struggle to establish an alternative form of society . |
| 26 | The plants that these animals dispersed may thus be seen as vegetable anachrorlisms and the introduction of horses and cattle in historical times seems to have locally restored the ranges of such trees as jicaro ( Crescentia alata , Bignoniaceae ) and guanacaste ( Enterolobium cyclocarpum , Leguminosae ) , which may fall in this category . |
| 27 | The trench warfare of the early 1980s was replaced by more subtle forms of guerrilla conflict , in which the guiding principles are no longer so straightforward , yet the consequences of change may be rather more significant , to the extent that the '80s as a whole might justifiably be seen as a period of structural change . |
| 28 | Fearful of punitive damages , companies will avoid doing anything that might later be seen as an admission of guilt . |
| 29 | More generally , the Auvergne might reasonably be seen as representative of many Merovingian dioceses ; Clermont was not a royal capital , nor was it a cult centre of major importance . |
| 30 | The capitulation of the General Council on the 12 May , and its decision to call off the strike without any guarantees that those involved would not be victimized , might also be seen as evidence of failure . |