Example sentences of "[was/were] see [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As it happened , re-emigration was a non-starter , but it remained government policy and , until the war , it was seen as the only long-term solution to the refugee problem . |
| 32 | Legislation clearly was seen as the only way to bring about that objective quickly . |
| 33 | It was the historic moment when the rule of the people , the idea of democracy , was seen as the only legitimate form of government and as the key to sweeping away the rule of individual despots and arrogant oligarchies , and when articulate voices were not afraid to proclaim their faith in the virtues and good judgement of the people as a whole . |
| 34 | An attack on July 9 in the Andean community of Santa Barbara was seen as the clearest evidence yet of military involvement in extra-judicial killings , allegedly sanctioned by the Armed Forces Joint Command as part of " special intelligence operations " against the guerrillas . |
| 35 | It was seen as the key element in the proposed transformation of the nation . |
| 36 | These nuances were lost in the United Kingdom , where rock 'n' roll was seen as another exotic American import like chewing-gum or cowboy films ; its explosive sexuality was seen as the key selling point of this product like the X-tail-fin on a new Ford — rather than as a process , and was thus isolated and marketed accordingly . |
| 37 | Centralization of authority within the parties was seen as the major obstacle to the implementation of their demands . |
| 38 | In the Keynesian era from 1945 to the end of the 1960s , fiscal policy was seen as the major weapon for controlling the economy . |
| 39 | Intellectuals of the age believed in parliamentary government , not a democratic system ; in liberty , not popular government ; and the spectre of social and economic equality itself was seen as the dark side of the claim for adult suffrage . |
| 40 | His ageing government showed insufficient energy in pursuing the effort of World War II and its prestige and confidence were undermined by the German air raids in April–May 1941 , indecision over conscription , the corruption of Belfast Corporation , what was seen as the weak and complacent handling of industrial relations , and confused planning for the post-war world . |
| 41 | On the one hand , large-scale machine industry was seen as the necessary prerequisite for socialism . |
| 42 | In each of the areas of major concern for the NVALA , there appeared to them to be influential individuals whose determination to ‘ push back the frontiers of permissiveness ’ was seen as the greatest threat to traditional Christian morality . |
| 43 | After the event it looks very much as if his campaigns overstrained the resources of his empire and made it impossible to hold together , but at the time he was seen as the greatest of conquerors . |
| 44 | Getting Microsoft Windows to run remotely on a Sun Microsystems Inc workstation was seen as the last step in the development effort . |
| 45 | As Jo Grimond he was MP for Orkney and Shetland for thirty-three years and was seen as the last traditional Liberal . |
| 46 | In each instance , the EC was seen as the last hope of halting the developments . |
| 47 | Even so , the machine factor remained an important consideration , in particular what was seen as the growing practice of instructing boys in a single process . |
| 48 | He had moreover made himself disagreeable to many contemporary naturalists , and his posthumous reputation has been well below what it was in his earlier life , when he was seen as the British Cuvier . |
| 49 | This surplus , combined with dramatically increasing Hungarian tourist spending in convertible currencies following the opening of the borders , was seen as the main reason for a convertible current-account deficit of $1,140 million compared with $591,000,000 in 1988 . |
| 50 | It blasphemed God 's goodness to declare that one day , the seventh , was holier than the other six ( the Christian Sunday was seen as the eighth day , pointing beyond time to eternity ) ; that some food or animals were clean and others unclean ; that some nations were less God 's children than others , or that a natural function , such as menstruation , made women unholy and hence unfit for contact with God . |
| 51 | ‘ The detestation of ‘ the profiteer ’ by Labour' , comments one historian , ‘ arose as much from an affront to its patriotism , as it did from latent class consciousness , and the victim of capital was seen as the patriotic community no less than the working class … . ’ |
| 52 | The intelligence test was seen as the direct means of overcoming class difference in access to schooling — although this remained a means of social reform , not reform itself . |
| 53 | Consequently , prescriptive analysis was ambiguous : sustained export demand , not subject to stop/go was seen as the driving force yet dependent on improved competitiveness ; whether this improvement was itself dependent on export demand was never clearly specified . |
| 54 | Indeed , by the end of the nineteenth century the incest taboo was seen as the very key to culture in anthropological works and occupied a pivotal position in Freud 's theorisation of the dynamic unconscious . |
| 55 | As was seen at the recent September Gala the old gentleman is feeling his age and his appearance on the Sunday was only possible after herculean efforts on the part of the staff who had to work on a hot locomotive , in the most trying conditions , to ensure an appearance at the Gala Weekend . |
| 56 | No statistically significant influence of sex , body mass index , or age was seen at the early recurrence rate . |
| 57 | This was seen at the very moment of James V 's death . |
| 58 | The tender has been in a finished condition for some time and was seen at the last Open Day some two years ago . |
| 59 | Philip H. , a 35-year old homosexual music arranger , was seen at the ENT department of a Midlands hospital with ringing in the ears . |
| 60 | A similar difference in urinary APGPR excretion postprandially was seen between the normal subjects and MO1 and MO3 and was significant at 15 , 30 , and 45 minutes after the start of the meal ( data not shown ) . |