Example sentences of "see [subord] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that time local authorities could be seen as acting in the interests of the majority — the phrase from the last paragraph of the 1978 extract from the Library Association record above ( omitted from the 1989 policy statement ) ‘ either on grounds of … a desire to ‘ protect ’ public morality' suggests so . |
| 2 | Such an outcome would place priorities on their head and , accordingly , the receiver should be seen as acting in the right of the debentureholder . |
| 3 | The result was the development of strong anarcho-syndicalist tendencies within the labour movement in which the potential for revolutionary political change was seen as residing in the trade unions or syndicats , so that ‘ the workers , schooled by militancy , made irresistible by the all-powerful weapon of the general strike , would take over society themselves , without need of a political party ’ ( Kendall , 1975 , p. 17 ) . |
| 4 | This view is sometimes seen as represented in the Gospel of John . |
| 5 | They could only accept evolution if it were a process that gave rise to regular , predictable developments in accordance with some preordained plan that could be seen as originating in the mind of God . |
| 6 | The solution to the problems of shirking and positional conflicts of interest is traditionally seen as lying in the governance function performed by the shareholders . |
| 7 | Poland 's long-term security was seen as lying in the creation of a Euro-Atlantic security system , and future membership of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) was confirmed as an aim . |
| 8 | This idea of a connection between the capitalist economy and a democratic political system appeared in various forms in accounts of the transition that was seen as occurring in the nineteenth-century European societies ( for example , as a movement from status to contract , or from authority to citizenship ) , and it has continued to have an important influence in political theory to the present day . |
| 9 | From the medical perspective , the problem , if it is a ‘ problem ’ , is seen as located in the individual , its origin lying in an innate physiological disorder which brings it into the realm of medical jurisdiction . |
| 10 | The popular slogan ‘ This we will maintain ’ , that is the union with Britain , can be equally applied to the religious and moral values the loyalists pride so much and which they see as embodied in the protestant — loyalist statelet , with its appropriate state apparatus of coercion and alternative paramilitary units . |