Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] see [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Things which were previously seen as obviously true come to be seen as obviously false . |
| 2 | It was acknowledged that some of the party 's previous policies had been potentially divisive , and the review was widely seen as both an attempt to attract new voters and as a means of attracting potential coalition partners from among the opposition parties . |
| 3 | The British interpretation of Nato 's " trip-wire " strategy was already seen as disturbingly simplistic . |
| 4 | By the time that Captain Cook was engaged in his voyages of exploration in the Pacific in the late-eighteenth century it was taken for granted that the inhabitants of the newly discovered islands would be men and not monsters , but cannibalism was still seen as somehow sub-human . |
| 5 | Co-ordination was still seen as predominantly a ‘ top-down ’ process by planners and did not at this time focus upon activities at the client level . |
| 6 | The emphasis of the legislation , as of philanthropic effort , was upon the removal of the child from a corrupting environment , rather than upon improvement within that environment which was still seen as too intractable a task . |
| 7 | As yet she was an unknown quantity , a mysterious figure who kept her distance from subordinate staff and was infrequently seen and then either alone or with one or several of the Senior Management team . |
| 8 | In this perspective also President Reagan 's ‘ Strategic Defense Initiative ’ was more than a Star Wars nuclear strategy ; SDI was also seen as yet another way of pumping more billions of government dollars into advanced research , much of it related to information technology . |
| 9 | Such confidentiality about the client was also seen as particularly important by Tesco . |
| 10 | While local councils were popular , all was well , even though town planning was often seen as yet another irksome irritant in the exercise of personal choice . |
| 11 | With specific regard to Franco , he was now seen as militarily and personally indispensable to a rebel victory . |