Example sentences of "seen [adv] as the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus even though know has the operative sense in this use , the operation of obtaining knowledge is seen merely as the condition for predicating the infinitive 's event of the direct object . |
| 2 | In ancient Greek literature , joy was seen only as the delight of the gods , who alone were the lords of joy . |
| 3 | The wages quoted are low by today 's standards ; the examples can be dismissed as irrelevant in real life , and seen only as the means by which averages are learned — in which case they are what Cockcroft would describe as ‘ about nothing at all ’ . |
| 4 | But these were local efforts and as landlords , tenants and labourers were locked in a situation whose extent was only just becoming apparent , endemic poverty came to be seen less as the will of God than as a widespread indication of human failure . |
| 5 | They are seen not as the victims of social problems but as those who contribute to their own victimisation by their irresolution or fatalism or apathy . |
| 6 | To be understood in its own terms , his policy should be seen not as the implementation of a " vision " of some future world order radically different from anything existing at the time , but as a series of practical initiatives to accelerate and to exploit an already occurring transformation . |
| 7 | The contradictions that are built into the term ‘ inner city ’ have to be seen not as the root of analytical uncertainty but as the source of rhetorical utility . |
| 8 | The earliest theories of investment placed considerable emphasis on the importance of the rate of interest , seen here as the compensation required for forgoing current consumption . |
| 9 | The latter , named Pooldhooie , is the only one of the buildings which can be seen today as the Bispham Conservative Club , the others have been demolished in 1983 for a Sainsbury 's store . |
| 10 | More particularly the jury 's verdict in the Ponting trial may be seen then as the response of ordinary people to trends in government practices which seem to them to be , in perhaps indefinable ways , wrong . |
| 11 | Learning is seen primarily as the acquisition of knowledge rather than the development of understanding . |
| 12 | Taste is then seen principally as the cause of ‘ classism ’ , which can be defined as the kind of distaste the middle and upper classes feel for the vulgar in fun fairs , cheap commodities , artificial copies , or lack of style , and the contempt working people feel for the pretentious , cold and degenerate middle and upper classes . |