Example sentences of "seen [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long experience suggests that magnetic disks have seen off a long series of challenges over the past 15 years — but a review of the survival and thriving of the technology gives a very partial and inadequate view . |
| 2 | Most common cavity episodes had a single transient UOS relaxation , but up to five were seen during a single episode . |
| 3 | They also perceive a danger that their skills in recruiting volunteers will be seen as a cheap way of providing care . |
| 4 | Each individual organism should be seen as a temporary vehicle , in which DNA messages spend a tiny fraction of their geological lifetimes . |
| 5 | It was seen as a temporary move to improve liquidity over Christmas , rather than an indication of a new trend in interest rates . |
| 6 | However , if success can be measured by the number of governments in all parts of the world now privatising their state-owned assets , then privatisation can be seen as a great success . |
| 7 | Nonetheless , although for many people the rise in car ownership can be seen as a great success , for a significant minority either unable to drive or unable to afford a car , notably the old , the young , the unemployed , the housewife ( left at home without a car ) and the disabled the corollary of increased car ownership has been a rapid decline in rural public transport , a concentration of services into ever more remote central places with increased journey lengths as shown in Table 6.1a , and a real sense of isolation and deprivation . |
| 8 | This positive curvature of space-time , which reflects the fact that gravity is attractive , was seen as a great problem by Einstein . |
| 9 | Passing on life to another generation is seen as a great privilege and joy . |
| 10 | His conduct of the crisis could be seen as a great achievement , yet something so negative and distasteful was not what he would have wished for his last service . |
| 11 | He was also a man who got on well with almost all his associates , and his early death in 1854 was seen as a great blow to natural history . |
| 12 | In such an optimistic climate it was easier for national governments and interest groups to go along with the economic ambitions of the EEC ; it was not seen as a great threat to their own concerns . |
| 13 | However , since the project was designed for small samples , which would encourage certain types of analysis rather than others , the shortfall in the Ipswich control area was not seen as a great disadvantage . |
| 14 | Sometimes this initial encounter with the Spirit is seen as a great washing ( 1 Cor. 6:11 ) . |
| 15 | Alexander III has been seen as a great lawyer pope : he made pronouncements , gave judgments and held a council for the whole Church in which the law was defined . |
| 16 | It was also seen as a stark warning for the ALP federal government which was due to face the electorate by mid-1993 . |
| 17 | To notice only the bad , when there is so much good , may be seen as a jaundiced view . |
| 18 | That history , from one perspective , could be seen as a consistent struggle to retain Lukács ' legacy in which history , the dialectic and the totality are interdependent to the extent that each is essential to the operation of the other in the production of a Marxist science . |
| 19 | There was particular concern in China over what was seen as a developing relationship between Taiwan and the Philippines , despite the latter 's formal recognition of China . |
| 20 | The Labour Party will need to develop a plausible vision for the future of the NHS if it is to be seen as a credible alternative to the present government . |
| 21 | In the form in which the proposals on community service appeared in the Bill they owed something also to the Government 's hope that the new measure would be seen as a credible alternative to custodial sentences , thus contributing towards the aim of bringing down the prison population . |
| 22 | Six months later , in June 1951 , after de Lattre had halted the Vietminh offensive in Tonkin and with the immediate threat removed , Heath reported from Saigon that the current phase in Indo-China was now to be seen as a holding operation . |
| 23 | The only existing course , of 2 years ' duration , in the methodology of French teaching , was open only to those students who already had an A Level in the subject , and was seen as a holding operation . |
| 24 | Lack of experience , along with the logical structures that contain it , are considered more responsible for failure in response than any lack of cognitive capacity , and the need to develop strategies designed to extend involvement is seen as a necessary way forward . |
| 25 | It can be better seen as a necessary precondition for the continuing existence , not of an individual , as is the case with hunger , but of the species . |
| 26 | It is seen as a necessary tool but it is not studied out of interest in the countries in which it is spoken . |
| 27 | While under capitalism the owning and accumulating of property is seen as the aim of life , in tribal conditions property is simple seen as a necessary pre-condition of life and social relations . |
| 28 | The concentration of power in the hands of the managers of the largest companies could not be seen as a necessary bulwark against the power of the state . |
| 29 | For rock climbers abseiling is often seen as a necessary evil , only because belays are often flimsy and safety ropes never used . |
| 30 | It has often been seen as a necessary evil for ensuring that the conduct of those responsible for operating the organization remains within prescribed rules , regulations and legislation . |