Example sentences of "[was/were] seen as [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 The South-West — whose Bath-Bristol-Gloucester resources have appeared in the past to resemble rugby 's equivalent of the Bermuda Triangle — are set on improving their disappointing Divisional Championship record , and their success against Leinster in Dublin last week was seen as a first step in the right direction .
2 For the pacifists of the ILP , however , the Memorandum was seen as a first stage in the creation of a new diplomacy from below ; ‘ our own proclamations … our own diplomacy … our own international meetings ’ , as MacDonald had said at the Leeds Convention .
3 This was seen as a first step towards integrating the Soviet economy with international financial institutions , although this did not permit Soviet participation in GATT 's current multilateral Uruguay Round of trade discussions .
4 The CP acceptance of the offer was seen as a first step to its entering the CODESA process .
5 The declaration was seen as a last gesture by Annamalai Varatharaja Perumal , the Chief Minister of the Council and leader of the EPRLF , who subsequently left Sri Lanka along with his wife and family .
6 Finally , if the worst happened , Spain was seen as a last line of continental defence .
7 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 .
8 The signature of a declaration on relations between the two countries was seen as the first step towards a future inter-state treaty .
9 Getting Microsoft Windows to run remotely on a Sun Microsystems Inc workstation was seen as the last step in the development effort .
10 As Jo Grimond he was MP for Orkney and Shetland for thirty-three years and was seen as the last traditional Liberal .
11 In each instance , the EC was seen as the last hope of halting the developments .
12 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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