Example sentences of "see [prep] an [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Gospel faith is seen as an act of trust by which a person relies not on himself or herself but on Jesus . |
| 2 | Louis XVIII , another restored monarch , accepted a constitution in 1814 on condition that the constitution was reasonably ‘ balanced ’ and was seen as an act of grace by the crown and not as an imposition upon it . |
| 3 | It was seen as an act of prudence . |
| 4 | This could be seen as an approximation to a Ramsey-optimal price structure , though the analogy is probably rather forced . |
| 5 | In this subject the stomach is crescent shaped and the pylorus can be seen as an incisure at its distal end ( arrowed ) . |
| 6 | Also in America there is the singular example of Yvor Winters , sometimes seen as an equivalent of Leavis , who was a poet of conservative but original talents , and a fiercely judgemental critic , who weirdly redrew the canons of English and American literature , so that T. Sturge Moore and Elizabeth Daryush emerged as major twentieth-century poets . |
| 7 | The prices that different social groups are able to afford for land can be seen as an equivalent to natural species competing for space . |
| 8 | Investment is seen as an activity of firms . |
| 9 | Not every reflux event detected by a fall in pH was seen as an increase in counts as a result of reflux of food , and vice versa . |
| 10 | Not every reflux event detected , however , by a fall in pH to less than 4 was seen as an increase in counts because of reflux of food , and vice versa . |
| 11 | Proceedings initiated by Finland in July 1991 at the International Court of Justice were formally discontinued on Sept. 10 , removing what had been seen as an irritant in Nordic co-operation . |
| 12 | Furthermore , the data were based on assessments made by care staff ; in the public sector staff have an incentive to minimise the dependency of their clients as it is seen as an index of the quality of care being provided . |
| 13 | Art is seen as an exercise in fine motor skills or appreciation of nature and not as a creative activity . |
| 14 | I think it 's very undesirable that it should be seen as an issue of women versus men , because the chances of getting anywhere are reduced if it 's set up in that way . |
| 15 | When the CNAA consulted its related institutions and others about the future guidelines for the DipHE many of the polytechnics pointed out that the emphasis on an ‘ interlock ’ between the Diploma and degree programmes prevented the Diploma from being seen as an award in its own right , and devalued it : it appeared to be a failed degree . |
| 16 | Gold prices are often seen as an indicator of inflation , a view reinforced by the high gold price during the inflationary years of the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 17 | The ruling National Party ( NP ) on June 6 narrowly won a ( whites-only ) by-election to the House of Assembly in the suburban constituency of Umlazi ( Natal ) , in what was seen as an indicator of white opinion regarding President F. W. de Klerk 's reform measures . |
| 18 | Elections for the Kuwaiti Chamber of Commerce and Industry on May 25 were seen as an indicator of the likely outcome of the general election planned for the following October [ see p. 38789 ] . |
| 19 | The Renaissance then can be seen as an addition to the early modern period . |
| 20 | The established professions are said to be based upon an underlying logic which is essentially instrumental ; the individual is seen as an instance of a general category . |
| 21 | " Look/sniff " arbitrations , as these arbitrations have become known , have to be seen as an exception to this important guideline . |
| 22 | The morning after the ark is put in Dagon 's temple , they discover the figure of their great god sprawled on the floor , his face to the ground , in what would have been readily seen as an attitude of worship . |
| 23 | Landlessness was also seen as an element of poverty and encouraged large families so that children could earn and remit wages . |
| 24 | Whereas rejection of Soviet dominance had been seen as an element in the poor support for communists and ex-communists elsewhere , the Economist of June 16 suggested that Bulgarians were comparatively well disposed to Russians , regarding them historically as " Slav brothers who freed Bulgaria from the Turks in 1878 " . |
| 25 | For a country that almost defines itself in terms of its distinctive education system , such changes are seen as an attack on the Scottish way of life . |
| 26 | This should not be seen as an attack on a balding old Pole but on the institution he leads — ie the hierarchy of the Catholic Church , whose attitudes towards gays , women and other oppressed groups belong in the dustbin of history as do those of most religious hierarchies . |
| 27 | The Public Utilities Holding Companies Act was also seen as an attack on big business ; this gave powers to the Securities Exchange Commission to dissolve the giant holding companies that between them controlled over 90% of the nation 's electric power output . |
| 28 | Obviously , war is seen as an engine of destruction , not merely in the physical sense , but also in the sense of the destruction of all those social bonds that constitute the equilibrium of capitalism as a social entity . |
| 29 | Its most serious short-comings are its failure to be seen as an arena for national debate … and its incapacity to be a check on executive power . |
| 30 | Each field is seen as an overprint of a previously existing field and contains the characteristics of all our ancestors . |