Example sentences of "was see [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You said your partner was seeing to the tourist board and the airlines here in Palma — ’ |
| 2 | But it was as if , for the first time , he was seeing beyond the image his assumptions had created . |
| 3 | He was later to become suspicious of Maine 's motives , however , as he was to see in the glorification of contract a subtle justification of the legal institutions of capitalism , and he was to seen in Maine 's insistence on the primacy of the monogamous family an attempt to prove that this institution was beyond historical change . |
| 4 | Sweeney Agonistes takes its audience back not simply to what was seen as the childhood , even babyhood of ritual and civilization , but further down the evolutionary ladder to the most primitive level of that ‘ amorphous protoplasm ’ which makes up the human egg . |
| 5 | Increasingly , privately-built housing for owner-occupation was seen as the norm while council housing was seen as necessary for the low-paid only . |
| 6 | which have been relevant there and the political factors during the Japanese war , the a need to form a united front , a need to moderate policy and then , over the course of nineteen forty six , forty seven , the need to move in a more radical direction , to go back to land reform and , and land reform a scale in terms of absolute egalitarianism because that was seen as the way of , of mobilizing mass peasant support , particularly amongst the poor , most quickly . |
| 7 | Imprisonment for ordinary civil debt was abolished by statute in 1970 — another hundred years had had to pass since the enactment of the 1869 measure which was seen as the triumph of liberal attitudes over the centuries-long stand of the powerful trader lobby . |
| 8 | The Commission was seen as the guardian and embodiment of the European ideal . |
| 9 | The Middle East was seen as the sea and , later , the air crossroads of the Eastern Hemisphere ; as the land bridge between Europe , Asia and Africa ; and as the main source of sterling oil upon which Britain and Western Europe were becoming increasingly dependent . |
| 10 | On the other , the pith and core of socialism was seen as the abolition of private property and the nationalization of the means of production . |
| 11 | When Douglas MacArthur returned to America , MacArthur had not been back to America since nineteen forty one this is ten years later , he 'd been running Japan in the meantime there was one of these huge ticker-tape parades in New York , he was the welcoming hero and President Truman was seen as the villain and some analysts argue that that decision , that single decision to sack MacArthur may well have cost Harry Truman the American presidency . |
| 12 | Almost as soon as he arrived at Highbury Chapman persuaded his chairman that the team needed Charlie Buchan , the long-shining star of Sunderland who , at thirty-four , was seen as the man to inspire and lend experience to the faltering Arsenal attack . |
| 13 | When the service faltered , therefore , everyone along the corridor was afflicted ; and Owen , as the person responsible in custom for Yussuf , was seen as the man to put it right . |
| 14 | Years ago when nobody went abroad because nobody could , a tanned face was seen as the preserve of the hoi polloi , the grafters who had to work outside . |
| 15 | With rabbit numbers low , this was seen as the opportunity for a further reduction but in response to public outcry legislation was also introduced making it illegal to spread myxomatosis by artificial means — by taking infected rabbits and releasing them near disease-free colonies . |
| 16 | Parents ' main interest was seen as the opportunity to influence the quality of their children 's education … the view was expressed that the APM should be seen as the climax to a continuous relationship between various parties and an opportunity for them to come together and ask questions about what had happened over the course of the previous 12 months . |
| 17 | Years ago this was seen as the dream of purists and unworldly cranks , but it is now one of the big growth areas in energy policy , with Wales leading the way in the UK . |
| 18 | As an alternative , Cannon proposed a centralist theory in which emotion was seen as the result of activating specific mechanisms in the central nervous system . |
| 19 | Non-violent resistance was seen as the answer to international aggression , and the job of the PPU was to train an élite core of resisters . |
| 20 | However , although new members flocked to the movement others resigned in protest against what was seen as the placing of fascist loyalties above patriotic considerations . |
| 21 | In the domestic sphere the policy was equally fundamental , for tariff reform was seen as the antithesis of socialism . |
| 22 | Legislation was seen as the key to securing reforms that were in women 's interests . |
| 23 | In the accounts of British politics which were published at the time , ministerial responsibility was seen as the key and essential principle of the whole system . |
| 24 | Control of investment was seen as the key to central direction of the economy . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , on Sept. 25 , in what was seen as the start of a Western military build-up to force Iraqi compliance with UN resolutions , the US Defence Department ordered the despatch to Saudi Arabia of 1,380 troops equipped with 96 US Patriot missiles . |
| 26 | Redknapp is determined to fight the charge but he is even more upset that his action was seen as the spark for crowd violence . |
| 27 | Rather more ideologically committed to a new form of politics were those for whom anti-semitism was seen as the reason for the changes in British and European society engendered by the first World War . |
| 28 | The action lacked that forceful superiority which had characterized Carolingian capitularies , at least in the time of Charlemagne ; but it revived the tradition whereby the crown was seen as the author of society 's moral norms . |
| 29 | Even conservatives could accept evolution , provided it was seen as the unfolding of a divine plan through forces built into Nature by its Creator . |
| 30 | The nineteenth century was seen as the age of liberalism and democracy and of the victory of money values . |