Example sentences of "[was/were] see [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the final analysis , neither specialization , nor " crude and slovenly workmanship " , nor technical inadequacies , were seen as the greatest dangers . |
| 2 | The allegations against Lacayo were seen as the latest attempt by right-wing elements in the ruling 14-party ruling coalition ( still known as the National Opposition Union , UNO ) to discredit the government , which it claimed was collaborating on security and economic matters with the left-wing Sandinista National Liberation Front ( FSLN ) , the main opposition party [ see p. 38957 ] . |
| 3 | Refuse collection was seen as the best service , pleasing 85% . |
| 4 | Similarly , residential care has been preferred at some times more than others , so until the eighteenth century in the Netherlands and Flanders the foster family was seen as the best place for orphans , foundlings , and abandoned children and has long been extensively used to care for needy children in Scotland ( Packman , 1975 ; Pinchbeck and Hewitt , 1973 ; Pyck et al . , |
| 5 | Total care within a segregated institutional setting was seen as the best answer to the social and individual problems arising from mental disorder . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |