Example sentences of "can be see as [noun] " in BNC.

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1 To summarise , all the three models of management can be seen as metaphors to avoid the realities of-real relationships with other employees but , perhaps most important of all , as social fictions to mask what we then called ‘ social depression ’ .
2 It has been suggested that learner errors can be seen as evidence of learner achievement .
3 Many examples of animal behaviour can be seen as evidence supporting the assertion , ‘ Animals are designed so as best to fulfil the function for which they were intended ’ .
4 These changing attitudes can be seen as part of the general reaction against the older voluntarism .
5 Search unemployment can be seen as part of the annual turnover of the job market — firms rid themselves of workers who have proved to be unproductive or unsatisfactory in some way , and workers quit jobs which have failed to meet their expectations or which were intended only as stop-gaps in the first place .
6 The decision to accuse with serious crimes the Rathcoole UDA officers held in Long Kesh can be seen as part of the NIO 's strategy for forestalling a general strike confrontation with the combined physical force and political wings of loyalism in the context of the coming constitutional convention .
7 In this way much of the movement of exotic items which can be traced archaeologically , can be seen as part of a system of ceremonial exchange in the formation of alliances , that is used by the heads of lineages for important political and social transactions .
8 If that is true , Mr Robertson 's proposal can be seen as part of a grander drama : the battle for control of the Forest Service 's soul .
9 The press reporting of rape can be seen as part of the sexual titillation increasingly being employed to sell newspapers in a tight market .
10 In Wales , too , Gloucester can be seen as part of a wider court interest .
11 In general , the rise of female employment can be seen as part of a transcending trend which divides the workforce between two broad groups .
12 In Wales , too , Gloucester can be seen as part of a wider court interest .
13 The extension of policy since the passing of the initial Monopolies and Restrictive Practices ( Inquiry and Control ) Act of 1948 can be seen as part of a gradual and continuous process , which has led , in what might be described as an eclectic or ad hoc manner , to the complex pattern of current legislation , culminating in the Competition Act of 1980 .
14 Ideally , an approach is required which will narrow the focus of the " act of identity " in such a way that individual choices like the one just mentioned can be seen as part of systematic behaviour patterns which are simultaneously typical of speakers ' own fictive speech communities and conditioned by the immediate context of the interaction in which they occur .
15 In the school library , Prestel can be seen as part of the total information and learning environment .
16 No fewer than eight classic Stones ' tracks make up Rooster , the new work from leading choreographer Christopher Bruce , which can be seen as part of a triple bill at the Empire from tonight until Saturday .
17 A number of student ‘ tides ’ were underway which can be seen as forms of adaptive behaviour or strategies for improving their social position , either temporarily or on a more permanent basis .
18 Many norms can be seen as reflections of values .
19 Thus the various parts of the superstructure can be seen as instruments of ruling class domination and as mechanisms for the oppression of the subject class .
20 As illustrations , therefore , teaching materials can be seen as stimulants of enquiry calling for appraisal as a prerequisite for application ; as prescriptions , they call for application without the requirement of appraisal , and so constrain the users into conformity .
21 Fan letters , fanzines and the many SF conventions around the world can be seen as responses to such experiences of reading SF .
22 Yet in some areas still , their skills are not appreciated ; they can be seen as trouble-makers who regard doctor as fellow colleagues instead of seeing them as bosses who are there to give orders .
23 These changes can be seen as elements of a programme intended to open up more aspects of public sector provision to the market and to undermine the powers of state bureaucracy , particularly as highlighted by exponents of ‘ public choice theory ’ .
24 A large percentage of nursing consists of actions which , when analysed , can be seen as skills .
25 The concept of exchange has often been used to describe support in families , and this can be seen as expression of mutual self-interest .
26 Profiles of Development and other material based on the same principles can be seen as redefinitions of the National Curriculum .
27 In Glasser 's book , and in Fraser 's , the activities of the poor can be seen as activities which had been performed , and written about , in the past : but these are books which intimate that the lists and specifications of a caring naturalism — features by which they have indeed been influenced — were never exhaustive : that the truth-tellers did not tell it , and that the omissions were systematic .
28 The component parts of communication can be seen as clarity of problem definition , completeness of information and clarity of problem understanding .
29 He can be seen as representative of the pre-war analysis of social problem in biological , hereditarian terms although he was firmly on the dominant environmentalist wing of the Eugenics Society itself .
30 A variety of norms can be seen as expressions of a single value .
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