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

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1 Determinism , in the more general positivist sense , means that crime is seen as behaviour that is caused by biological , psychological or social factors , depending on the academic origins of the criminologist concerned .
2 Small scale thieving is seen as part of everyday life .
3 To supplement , strengthen or , as some think , to contradict the legislation of 1986 , the 1988 Education Reform Act made it possible for parents directly to intervene in their children 's schooling through a complaints procedure ( Maclure 1989:22 — 3 ) : In terms of a market ideology , this gives the consumers ( i.e. the parents , who throughout the Act are seen as surrogate consumers for their sons and daughters ) a chance to act if they believe there is a failure to deliver the curriculum to which they are , by law , entitled .
4 Firstly , the foal learns to behave like its mother , and to be bossy or passive towards the various other horses ; and secondly , and perhaps most importantly , because the foal is seen as part of its mother .
5 As in qualitative sociology , dialogue is seen as evidence and , therefore , to be presented and digested on its own .
6 Many people also feel that there is no necessity to deal with racial issues since the child is seen as part and parcel of the family and ‘ a child is a child ’ .
7 In the Great War , river clearance was seen as employment for prisoners , and in the 1920s as a way of relieving unemployment generally .
8 The package was seen as part of the transition from a labour-intensive to a capital-intensive economy in Mauritius .
9 The move was seen as part of the continuing attempts to end Albania 's international isolation .
10 The move was seen as preparation for ECOMOG to take on an offensive rather than merely a peacekeeping role .
11 In addition the teacher placement organiser is seen as part of the partnership ‘ team ’ and therefore expected to become involved in partnership activities as and when required .
12 Whether a given act or event is seen as pollution or not , to paraphrase Becker ( 1963 : 14 ) , depends in part on the nature of the act or event and in part on what other people do about it .
13 For if the station is seen as cathedral or chapel , it can also be seen to possess in its heyday a Bible every bit as imposing and sometimes even as impenetrable as the Authorized Version ( Bradshaw ) , incense ( steam ) , and liturgical chanting ( ‘ The train now standing at platform 3 is … ’ ,
14 Issued 46 years after the war 's end , the apology was seen as part of an on-going process whereby Japan was attempting to improve its relationship with its neighbours in order to enable it to play a diplomatic and political role within the region which was commensurate with its economic power .
15 Other debates and ideologies , originating both from state apparatuses and from capital , talked of affluence and a consumer spending boom , and more education was seen as part of the route to yet greater affluence .
16 Use of the microcomputer is seen as part of the syllabus , so skill reinforcement and development is assured and , as is well known , the best kind of learning occurs when pupils are doing work which they regard as useful .
17 If access is seen as part of the right of autonomy of the individual , one might ask why parents , rather than the children themselves , should have access .
18 Anselm 's definition is seen as part of a clever philosophical con trick whereby he argues that it is greater for something to exist than not to exist , and thereby that the definition of God ( as the greatest thing conceivable ) demands that He exist !
19 In this case the main stumbling block was seen as staffing for the new venture.as the church was already fully stretched .
20 And for reformers from above — based in Whitehall rather than Northern Ireland — the past operation of local democracy was seen as part of the problem .
21 ‘ Increasingly , communication is seen as community , an exchange of stories , life experiences , insights — functions which build relationships in a world which naturally works against relationships , against being in touch with one another ’ , said Rev Randy L Naylor , Director of the Division of Communication and President of WACC .
22 Applying this principle to insider dealing , it could be argued that a company has the right to bring an action against an insider for any profit made by reason of the fact that he has ( i ) abused his fiduciary position by using unpublished price sensitive information which he acquired by virtue of his position as an insider ; or ( ii ) misappropriated corporate property ( it is essential under this head that unpublished price sensitive information be seen as property ; whether it is , is not entirely clear ) .
23 But the fact remains that in France , where couture is seen as part of the national heritage , there would be questions in parliament before Dior or Chanel foundered .
24 On the one hand , unity is seen as equivalence .
25 The scheme is seen as work experience rather than as a ‘ parenting ’ class , but the spin-off could benefit the families of the future .
26 The measure was seen as part of an ongoing process designed to increase the reliability of both police and Army units .
27 Mugabe 's statement on March 4 , 1990 , that " all progressive forces " should prepare for negotiations with the apartheid regime in spite of the continuation of the armed struggle was seen as criticism of the Pan Africanist Congress ( PAC ) with which , rather than the ANC , ZANU had traditionally been aligned .
28 It is integrated in that the activities of each region are seen as part of a global process , i.e. the experiences and insights of each region are fed into , and compared with , those of other regions .
29 This stage is seen as characteristic of other elements of abstraction , such as the growth of intellectual abilities .
30 In " managing " the system at crucial moments ; in neutering the discontent of the working class ; and in holding out the prospect of socialism via Parliament , the Labour Party is seen as part of the problem blocking transformation and so has no part to play in securing socialism .
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