Example sentences of "[be] often see [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet in the first half of the century the number of unmarried women increased substantially , so that they formed a significant minority group Spinsters maintained an anomalous social position and were often seen as a threat to a society that assumed all women would marry and be subject to the control of their husbands [ Hill , 229–30 ] . |
| 2 | It is often seen as a subject with very limited aims , usually the acquisition of knowledge and information about ages remote from our own , and whose teaching is restricted to dictated notes , copying from textbooks and rote learning . |
| 3 | It is always hard to forgive people because forgiveness is often seen as a sign of weakness and we feel vulnerable enough after we have been hurt that we tend to build a wall between ourselves and those who have offended us , rather than to have the strength to forgive them and therefore become reconciled with them . |
| 4 | ‘ Our next guest is often seen as a maverick in the world of needlework ’ |
| 5 | F. H. A. Marshall 's Physiology of Reproduction ( 1910 ) , in examining current views , found that menstruation was often seen as a disease symptom so that ‘ the phenomenon of menstruation must be looked upon as belonging to the borderland of pathology ’ . |
| 6 | Furthermore , the harvest feast was often seen as a focus for the customary rights of agricultural workers , including the crucial right of access to common land . |