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

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1 Instead of being seen as fighters on behalf of those who struggle with the system , we are seen as architects and defenders of it .
2 Political conflicts of the sort which characterize the Northern Ireland problem are of a quite different nature because they are seen as part of a ‘ zero-sum ’ game .
3 ‘ Catholic schools will only be understood when they are seen as part of the mission of the Church , ’ said Mr Helvin .
4 Drawn from a more liberal tradition , they are seen as part of the permissive professions who encourage the delinquent and the feckless .
5 In simple societies , whose collective sentiments are based on religion , all crimes ( even crimes such as murder ) are essentially ‘ religious criminality ’ : they are seen as offences against God or the gods .
6 They are seen as exercises ‘ camouflaged as stories … and are accompanied by pictures depicting situations for the description of which the child knows he would use a wide vocabulary and a rather complex sentence structure ’ ( p.221 ) , a vocabulary and sentence structure very different from those used for the primer .
7 Nor , it is often argued , can they be seen as part of the proletariat .
8 The relatively puny Fascist and Communist movements in Britain gained attention because they were seen as projections of much more important European counterparts .
9 He could say sentences which would have been preposterous if they were seen as rhetoric but which he could carry because they were delivered with uproarious humour — ‘ Liberalism prolonged one 's youth , Liberalism did not decay ’ .
10 The 1989 NHS Reforms were greeted with great hostility by much of the medical profession , partly because they were seen as part of possible moves towards dismantling the NHS , but also because of the changed emphasis brought about by the consideration of terms such as : ‘ efficiency ’ , ‘ internal market ’ , and ‘ payment by results ’ in areas where the role of the market had previously been much less prominent .
11 They were sometimes denied the authority necessary for the fulfilment of their expected role , and it was critically important that they were seen as part of a school 's management team rather than being relegated to the position of mere facilitator .
12 If it is seen as part of control over quality of education , the parent might ask why the child should be given access at all .
13 But it is seen as part of a whole , differentiated from the central state only by an increased concern with social reproduction .
14 It is seen as competition between multinational corporations which requires each to adopt the most profitable organization of its production and that invariably affects the international structure of its operations .
15 In fact it makes its point more powerfully if it is seen as prose but heard or read as poetry since the meditation then enacts for the reader that speech-become-song meditation-become-poem that Rolle talks of in The Fire of Love .
16 Then he is seen as Mr Policey , serving ice cream from a van painted white to avoid suspicion — with the words Unmarked Police Car printed on the side .
17 Now , it would probably be regarded as good , but then it was seen as indiscipline . ’
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