Example sentences of "be seen as the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In liberal democratic circles , those most strongly identified with the dissident tradition , the 1989 revolutions are seen as the chance to embark on a qualitatively new political future . |
| 2 | Eggs are seen as the symbol of new life . |
| 3 | Two of the main factors that need to be kept in equilibrium are heat and cold and most illnesses and diseases are seen as the product of excessive heat or cold . |
| 4 | This article tells the story of a community health centre which is committed to the principle of self-evaluation by its own staff and by village health workers who are seen as the interface between the health centre and the community . |
| 5 | The state is viewed as an instrument of capital and state policies such as immigration and race relations legislation are seen as the outcome of deliberate , thus ‘ rational ’ , manipulation by agents of capital and the capitalist state . |
| 6 | Anything less involves wasted potential and the limiting factors are seen as the time and energy of the carers . |
| 7 | Men are seen as the enemy and are fought through re-education away from the colonialist ideas that women should be quiet and biddable . |
| 8 | Women are seen as the source of compassion , love and harmony . |
| 9 | The second part of the book , " Models and methods " , proposes a view of literary communication in which the sylistic properties of texts are seen as the result of a complex process of mediation between a variety of situational , social and cultural forces . |
| 10 | Let us also celebrate and exploit the opportunities that have been created by new media , and ensure that bookshops are seen as the distribution channel of choice , and that we do all we can to make the book the natural bedfellow of these emerging products . |
| 11 | In social science , this has meant that women have been virtually ignored , except as they related to men , and that the male has been seen as the norm . |
| 12 | Five companies have been shortlisted in the bidding for 35% of the Greek Telecommunications Organisation , OTE , this summer , Reuter reports : their indicative bids are expected in June and the sale will be completed in August and the five are Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp , France Telecom , GTE Corp , Telefonica de Espana SA and STET SpA ; STET already has a $160m 20-year licence to develop a cellular mobile phone system in Greece ; AT&T Co , which had been seen as the favourite , withdrew from the bidding . |
| 13 | The library , in which the tradition of Warburg is enshrined , has always been seen as the Institute 's essential purpose . |
| 14 | While The School Curriculum might have been seen as the government 's definitive statement on the structure of the national curriculum framework , it was superseded in September 1984 by The Organization and Content of the 5–16 Curriculum , although the wording of the latest document conveyed the impression that the final nature and scope of the national framework has not yet been determined . |
| 15 | What needs to be explained is why Tory Anglicans , who had so strongly defended James 's right to the succession during his brother 's final years , and who have normally been seen as the Crown 's allies in an attempt to establish royal absolutism in the early 1680s , should have turned so quickly against the King . |
| 16 | Since the nineteenth century it has been seen as the cause and ‘ truth ’ of our being . |
| 17 | Although many of their fans are too young to realise , United have generally been seen as the town 's two-bit team , little more than camels in the eyes of the Dens Park faithful . |
| 18 | This has put pressure on the service sector to provide services that can perform tasks that have hitherto been seen as the province of being provided in the home ( e.g. more eating out in restaurants and more holidays — often two per year — because of increased disposable income ) . |
| 19 | While previously residential care had been seen as the solution for many young children , it was now considered as part of the problem . |
| 20 | For the last decade has been one in which short-term cost-cutting has been seen as the answer to any commercial or governmental problem . |
| 21 | Industrialization had been seen as the key to international strength , and industrial development had been pushed forward regardless of rural and urban poverty , environmental damage and social and economic dislocation . |
| 22 | We all like to think we stand out from the crowd and , in the past , the face has been seen as the key to unlocking our identity . |
| 23 | Utopian ideology has therefore been seen as the basis of Marxist theory . |
| 24 | Ruling class ideology has therefore been seen as the basis of functionalist theory . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ’ . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In an extension of this , the first species described can be seen as the type , or the typical member , of its genus . |
| 30 | 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 ’ . |