Example sentences of "seen [subord] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Broadly the period 1951–87 can be divided into four parts : 1951–64 , a period of comparatively little social policy innovation which may be regarded as a time of consolidation or stagnation , according to one 's political viewpoint ; 1964–74 , a period of fairly intense policy change stimulated by both political parties , in which considerable difficulties were experienced in translating aspirations into practice ; 1974–78 , a period in which rapid inflation and government by the Labour party without a parliamentary majority administered a severe shock to the political and social system , and to all who believed that there was still a need for developments in social policy ; and 1979–87 , when much more explicitly anti-welfare state Conservative administrations reinforced that shock by deliberately treating inflation as more deserving of its attention than unemployment , attacking public services which were seen as inhibiting economic recovery and seeking ways to ‘ privatize ’ public services . |
| 2 | They may be seen as lacking basic training which can be rectified by the intervention of psychiatrists , psychologists , social workers , probation workers or other similar welfare professionals . |
| 3 | The lack of substantial commitments to action is widely seen as reflecting conflicting interests and clashes within the government , particularly among the Departments of Transport , Energy , Agriculture and Trade and Industry where the environment is a contentious issue . |
| 4 | The strength of the protest vote against the mainstream parties was seen as reflecting popular disillusionment with their unsuccessful attempts to resolve the country 's long-running linguistic problems and to complete constitutional reforms [ see p. 38465 ] . |
| 5 | Also , the fact that free , rational human beings are still seen as requiring organised discouragement from committing crime implies an acceptance of its ‘ naturalness ’ . |
| 6 | They must be seen as inventing new rules for the future in accordance with their convictions about what is best for society as a whole , freed from any supposed rights flowing from consistency , but presenting these for unknown reasons in the false uniform of rules dug out of the past . |
| 7 | Whether these types of initiative ought to be included within the development theme is arguable , but labour-supply considerations may be seen as constraining urban output . |
| 8 | The action of Jesus is seen as fulfilling Messianic prophecy : |
| 9 | The professionalisation of management in the late 1950s and early 1960s coincided with other economic trends , which may be seen as providing fertile ground for the seeds of the search industry . |
| 10 | An informal survey of the lunchtime customers suggests that the hotel is well established as a meeting place and that the lunches are seen as providing good value . |
| 11 | At first , new multi-disciplinary machinery and the procedures associated with it were seen as providing social workers with the necessary change of perspective . |
| 12 | The outcome of these cases is that the Chinese wall has not been seen as providing satisfactory protection for the interests of the former client and , despite the existence of a Chinese wall , the courts have required the law firms not to act on behalf of the new client . |
| 13 | So notions and functions are generally seen as replacing linguistic structures as units of content , and a notional/functional ( and therefore communicative ) orientation is seen to be incompatible with a concern for grammatical structure and meanings intrinsic in form . |
| 14 | ‘ Functional ’ because such institutions have to be seen as serving certain value objectives , in this case primarily the avoidance of war and mutual destruction . |
| 15 | For these suggest that holism and individualism can fruitfully be seen as serving different interests in social explanation . |
| 16 | In all three cases the changes in the host , if we accept that they are Darwinian adaptations for the benefit of the parasite , must be seen as extended phenotypic effects of parasite genes . |
| 17 | The key to this was seen as establishing close links with the private sector ’ ( Moore , 1986 , p. 9 ) . |
| 18 | Donald MacRae , a professor of sociology , for example , was seen as lending substantial support to the development of the polytechnics . |
| 19 | The civil service , the House of Lords , the Monarch , the judges , the police , the military , the security services , the Bank of England , a host of Quangos , and even the cabinet and the absolute premiership , are all seen as enjoying varying degrees of political power without any balancing responsibility to hold them in check — as we ourselves will suggest in Chapter 5 . |
| 20 | appeared to have little interest in the sort of discussion groups generally seen as furthering mutual support and understanding … |
| 21 | In September 1989 , it was reported that the Home Secretary had begun a series of private discussions with public officials including the Lord Chancellor , the Lord Chief Justice ( who had hitherto been reluctant to participate in such discussions lest they were seen as prejudicing judicial independence ) and the senior Lord Justice of Appeal . |
| 22 | When anomalies come to be seen as posing serious problems for a paradigm , a period of ‘ pronounced professional insecurity ’ sets in . |
| 23 | Persistent truants , those truanting for weeks at a time , were seen as posing intractable problems for schools . |
| 24 | Similarly , moderate versions of indeterminism ( especially the classical version ) allow a degree of predictability : although we are seen as making free choices , this does not preclude the specification of circumstances that influence choices in a particular direction . |
| 25 | As a language is variable at all times , the many different varieties can each be seen as having continuous histories , with influences passing to and fro between them , as represented in figure 3.2 . |
| 26 | They point out that in the history of science it is clear that social and political factors play a great part in determining which theories are held on to and which are rejected ; certainly they play at least as great a part as the degree to which a theory is seen as having evidential support . |
| 27 | So cities were again seen as having causal effects . |
| 28 | This was particularly valuable at a time when the chemical profession was coming to be seen as having different needs and interests from the learned chemical community . |
| 29 | Two objects may reflect the same wavelengths into our eyes yet be seen as having different colours . |
| 30 | If employed , they can be seen as having obsolete skills in which it is not worth investing . |