Example sentences of "[adv] [be] see as the " in BNC.

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1 This has put pressure on the service sector to provide services that can perform tasks that have hitherto been seen as the province of being provided in the home ( e.g. more eating out in restaurants and more holidays — often two per year — because of increased disposable income ) .
2 Although many of their fans are too young to realise , United have generally been seen as the town 's two-bit team , little more than camels in the eyes of the Dens Park faithful .
3 What needs to be explained is why Tory Anglicans , who had so strongly defended James 's right to the succession during his brother 's final years , and who have normally been seen as the Crown 's allies in an attempt to establish royal absolutism in the early 1680s , should have turned so quickly against the King .
4 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 .
5 The library , in which the tradition of Warburg is enshrined , has always been seen as the Institute 's essential purpose .
6 The client could therefore still be seen as the organisation rather than the individual , with or without family and friends .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 But the BIS can also be seen as the project of a dissident Quakerism which led Elizabeth Pease Nichol to leave the Friends on her marriage ; the Peases found collaborators in the Dubliner Richard Webb whose contempt for the ‘ form and conventionalisms ’ of British reformers has already been indicated and his Unitarian associates such as James Haughton .
10 For the rural population these policies could also be seen as the direct answer to its immediate problems .
11 Although in a world under divine guidance their actions can be said to actualize the Lord 's will , these actions can also be seen as the expression of women 's resentment and rebellion .
12 Various other strands of penal policy — the prison building programme ( see Chapter 5 ) , privatization ( see Chapter 10 ) , and the Fresh Start on prison officers ' pay — can also be seen as the product of a combination of political ideology and material circumstances .
13 Instead we have the Master-Slave relation : one person partly being seen as the body desired by the other , but where this is not reciprocated .
14 Legislation clearly was seen as the only way to bring about that objective quickly .
15 An advocate of Copernican astronomy , an infinite universe , and a plurality of worlds , Bruno has often been seen as the archetypal scientific martyr .
16 Indeed , so firmly did they reject the view that adults should be given the right to choose their own cinema entertainment — ‘ whatever turns you on ’ , as the saying went — that their Report marked the beginning of a historic swing of the pendulum away from what can now be seen as the libertarian heyday of British media law .
17 The inclusion of penguins among the animals depicted can now be seen as the first indication that prehistorians have had that these birds were present in the Mediterranean during the palaeolithic era , and not proof , as was recently suggested , that the paintings are modern forgeries .
18 CPRW is firmly of the view that consent for the Meadow House application will send a clear signal to caravan site owners and developers everywhere that existing caravan sites can now be seen as the acceptable location for entirely new villages , however inappropriate their location , design or scale .
19 The examination , therefore , can now be seen as the culmination of the course rather than viewed as an unwelcome intrusion as it was previously .
20 By the end of his life , his position was somewhat more relativist , and that can fairly be seen as the result of the consistent working-through of his earlier principles .
21 A 3-0 thrashing suffered by Villa at Coventry on Saturday is now being seen as the turning point in their Championship drive .
22 His departure now is seen as the result of a power struggle between those who believe that some wildlife can be privately owned and managed for profit , and those who think all wildlife should belong to the state .
23 It seems that the situation we are witnessing is neither the effect of a biological underpinning of sex roles , nor can it simply be seen as the persistence of institutional inequalities .
24 Decision-making tended to be a complex process which involved bargaining between a plurality of different actors , and even in each of the specific policy areas the resulting decisions could not simply be seen as the result of the preferences of one elite group or actor .
25 Its exact interpretation remains debatable , but it can plausibly be seen as the more valuable possessions , perhaps the church plate , of a fourth-century Christian community focused on the town .
26 ( One Judge even going so far as to say , ‘ In ten years ' time , 1989 may well be seen as the year when Vauxhall redefined the sports coupé . ’ )
27 The second refers to the degree of formality in the physical arrangements and court room atmosphere ; the major obstacle here is seen as the adversarial system of examining and cross-examining witnesses ( JUSTICE , 1987 ) .
28 Utopian ideology has therefore been seen as the basis of Marxist theory .
29 Ruling class ideology has therefore been seen as the basis of functionalist theory .
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