Example sentences of "[be] seen as the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier in this book it was suggested that the idea of " popular power " could be seen as the core of the various ideas and conceptions of democracy . |
| 2 | But as attitudes changed labour came to be seen as the fight of the soldier of God through a hostile world , a fight in which the end justified the means . |
| 3 | By the end of 1981 and into 1982 , however , these new outbreaks were occurring with a rapidity and density which in retrospect can be seen as the building blocks for a full-blown heroin ‘ epidemic ’ . |
| 4 | More positively , Article 100A(4) may be seen as the price to be paid for the acceptance of a system of decision-making which may lead to the enactment of Community legislation in areas still subject to national measures . |
| 5 | In an extension of this , the first species described can be seen as the type , or the typical member , of its genus . |
| 6 | The implications for individual managers are that ‘ increasingly it will come to be seen as the individual 's responsibility to maintain , alter or boost his skills , to find the right market for his skills and to sell them to the appropriate buyer ’ . |
| 7 | He would be seen as the man responsible , in the last resort , for the safety record of motor racing , its code of conduct , its commercial viability and its image . |
| 8 | This idea can be seen as the converse of the mutational argument . |
| 9 | This problem may be seen as the converse of the one discussed at the beginning of this section — defining a complete set of alternants for a variable — and is best demonstrated by example . |
| 10 | The Chairman of the Chambre Nationale , Yannick Guilloux , said the charges brought against Britain must not be seen as the stand of one European country against another but a bid to harmonise tax regulation , at as low a rate as possible , in order to protect the art market within the EC as a whole . |
| 11 | In this context , then , approaches to education must begin from the notion , articulated by André Gorz and others , that ours is a post-industrial society where paid work on a full-time basis is no longer to be seen as the norm , and where ‘ education for life ’ rather than ‘ training for jobs ’ should be the objective . |
| 12 | It seems that the situation we are witnessing is neither the effect of a biological underpinning of sex roles , nor can it simply be seen as the persistence of institutional inequalities . |
| 13 | One can imagine that if Xerxes had been successful and absorbed Greece into the Persian empire , Greek archaic art might have crystallised in the decorative academic formulae which characterise Achaemenian ; while the threat and its repulse can be seen as the catalyst which released the spirit of Hellenism , flowering in the fifth century as richly in literature and thought as in the visual arts . |
| 14 | Readiness to learn can be seen as the possession of learning at lower levels of the hierarchy , necessary to begin learning the present task . |
| 15 | for example , a production manager may be stuck about ideas on how to improve factory efficiency but looking at a potted plant on the desk might suggest an improved working environment or employees being given more wages ( which may be seen as the equivalent of plant food ) . |
| 16 | The government 's 1983 de-hospitalization pilot programme , followed by Griffiths investigation into community care , could be seen as the beginning of central direction of mental health services . |
| 17 | Although this was a far cry from the power and authority of a body like the United States Supreme Court , it nevertheless could be seen as the beginning of a practical appreciation of the concept of constitutionality as understood in the West . |
| 18 | The process of monotheistic religions can be seen as the beginning of the rational approach to the world ! ’ |
| 19 | Furthermore , protesting one 's innocence will be seen as the kind of thing that everyone who is convicted does . |
| 20 | ( One Judge even going so far as to say , ‘ In ten years ' time , 1989 may well be seen as the year when Vauxhall redefined the sports coupé . ’ ) |
| 21 | ‘ The software package selected for implementation should be seen as the vehicle for a solution rather than the solution itself . |
| 22 | ‘ Industry should n't be seen as the problem but as a major part of the solution to environmental improvement , ’ he said . |
| 23 | The post-war commitment to full-employment increased their bargaining power ; the strike weapon in the context of a complex and interdependent economy meant that they could exert considerable pressure " through their capacity to disrupt and delay ; and as inflation came to be seen as the problem ( and as a problem caused by " excessive " wages demands backed by strikes ) so trade unions found themselves in a new position of strategic importance and power . |
| 24 | The client could therefore still be seen as the organisation rather than the individual , with or without family and friends . |
| 25 | Teenagers seem particularly unwilling to be seen as the caring and bright people they often are . |
| 26 | Parents ' main interest was seen as the opportunity to influence the quality of their children 's education … the view was expressed that the APM should be seen as the climax to a continuous relationship between various parties and an opportunity for them to come together and ask questions about what had happened over the course of the previous 12 months . |
| 27 | ‘ Other Costs ’ can be seen as the cost of developing the plot and their total will remain fairly constant in your budget , regardless of the size of dwelling you build . |
| 28 | She writes : ‘ The process of inspiration must be seen as the inspiration of those people , especially of poor women , struggling for human dignity and liberation from oppressive powers , because they believe in the biblical God of creation and salvation despite all experiences to the contrary . ’ |
| 29 | The contrast with West Germany is sharp , for although the 1965 German equivalent of Traffic in Towns echoed Buchanan 's views on the need for the establishment of environmental standards , the response can be seen as the departure point for much of the environmental traffic management practised there since . |
| 30 | The whole film could , in fact , be seen as the nightmare of a middle-aged divorce whose children are being brought up by another man . |