Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] see as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the War , I suppose , and in the Fifties , when schools were seen as places preparing young people for a very different world , different kinds of resources were put in . |
| 2 | One has only to think of the Romantic period where poets became their own heroes , and their lives were seen as part of their poetic output . |
| 3 | Incongruities and idiosyncrasies were seen as strengths not as weaknesses , as indicators of a capacity for quiet change rather than as evidence of a tendency towards obfuscation . |
| 4 | These changes were seen as part of a comprehensive strategy to foster exchange rate cohesion . |
| 5 | The figures were seen as evidence that both the dollar and US interest rates should drop to correct the huge trade imbalance which was projected at a record level of about $165 billion for the year . |
| 6 | Beset by relative impotence in the international arena only rarely could abolitionists provide sustenance from ‘ agitation ’ for antislavery diplomacy or politics as when the 1814 petitions were seen as support for Castlereagh 's negotiations on suppressing the transatlantic slave trade at the peace congress . |
| 7 | There was an expression of terrible natural justice , and she was rendered breathless by a profound understanding of just why lions were seen as kings . |
| 8 | And er , it 's not one that 's er that 's currently practised , but it 's not all that long ago , in in folk memory that that that women in their particularly women who had practices and rituals were seen as witches . |
| 9 | In the early days of Minoan studies , this widespread network of trading links was seen as evidence of a powerful Minoan navy , a wholesale conquest by sea and political subjugation of the tributary lands . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , she said a lot of good things about how housework and things were essential social work — you know , saying it was work , hard work , servicing other people , not that airy fairy labour of love stuff , and how it ought to be recognised , and how it was because women were seen as wives and mothers that they got low wages , no money when they were at home looking after small kids . |