Example sentences of "[was/were] see as the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 The Commander of the Air Force since 1979 , Gen. Juan Rafael Bustillo , was appointed military attaché to Israel at the beginning of January 1990 in what was seen as the first step in reducing the power of senior right-wing officers .
2 The signature of a declaration on relations between the two countries was seen as the first step towards a future inter-state treaty .
3 Getting Microsoft Windows to run remotely on a Sun Microsystems Inc workstation was seen as the last step in the development effort .
4 As Jo Grimond he was MP for Orkney and Shetland for thirty-three years and was seen as the last traditional Liberal .
5 In each instance , the EC was seen as the last hope of halting the developments .
6 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 .
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