Example sentences of "see [subord] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will also need a plumbline to ensure that a frame or end panel is vertical ; this is more accurate and easier to see than using a spirit level . |
| 2 | Haughey 's espousal of liberal reforms was seen as a response to the shock result of the November 1990 presidential election [ see p. 37868 ] , in which the victory of Mary Robinson , a woman supported by the Labour Party and the Workers ' Party , was seen as reflecting a major shift in voters ' attitudes and a challenge to the traditional political dominance of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael . |
| 3 | It has said that Article 10 should not be seen as requiring a " balance " between , on the one hand , the value of freedom of expression and , on the other , the value of national security , crime prevention and the other exceptions in Article 10(2) . |
| 4 | Note that while the first three kinds of information are relative strictly to the deictic centre , here specifically the social standing of the speaker , formality is perhaps best seen as involving a relation between all participant roles and situation ( but see Irvine , 1979 ; J. M. Atkinson , 1982 ) . |
| 5 | It means that social science should not be seen as developing a stock of knowledge about an object which is external to us , but should develop a critical self-awareness in people as subjects and indeed assist in their emancipation . |
| 6 | Apparently ruling out any form of legislative veto for minority groups ( a point on which the government side had long insisted ) , the document was nevertheless seen as containing a notable concession in its acceptance of a bicameral parliamentary system . |
| 7 | In the early days it was seen as bringing a whirlwind of well-paid high-technology jobs to an area of record unemployment . |
| 8 | In other words , to the extent that Christianity is seen as providing a source of values which can legitimise the market economy , those same values undermine the assumptions from which a humanistic defence of the market economy starts . |
| 9 | This world system and its evolution are seen as providing a historical framework , an account of world history . |
| 10 | Elections are not seen as providing a pathway to power . |
| 11 | Plowden was seen as providing a medium-term strategy for economic control , though to function satisfactorily it required an adequate institutional structure . |
| 12 | Some firms have adopted a formula which reserves a power to prevent more than one partner departing in any given period ( say a year ) , with complementary provisions to determine priority as between notices served on the same day , though in these frantic head-hunting times when whole departments may be recruited at a stroke , such provisions are realistically best seen as providing a basis for negotiation ( and perhaps financial adjustment by way of compensation ) . |
| 13 | To this extent he can be seen as supporting a synthesizing discourse of the kind that had been increasingly welcomed by the Review of English Studies during the second half of the 1930s . |
| 14 | Too often a job , any job , for a refugee child was seen as bestowing a great favour in return for which sacrifices were expected . |
| 15 | The disorder is sometimes seen as serving a homoeostatic or stabilising role in the family . |
| 16 | And travel and tourism , while still not major polluters in the ‘ smokestack industry ’ mould , are increasingly being seen as bearing a particular responsibility for environmental improvements . |
| 17 | Thus these plants can be seen as creating a ‘ Trojan Horse ’ , whereby Japanese firms attempt to evade protectionist measures against imports from Japan by locating production facilities within the EC . |
| 18 | Similarly , the notion of social development through increasing differentiation and individuation has had a considerable place in later sociological theories , although its political implications have been judged in diverse ways ; from one aspect social differentiation may be seen as creating a mutual dependence of individuals and groups which is a fundamental element in a stable democratic system , while from another aspect ( as in Durkheim 's theory ) it may be regarded as a danger to the political order if it leads to excessive individualism , and then needs to be checked by a moral consensus embodied in the state . |
| 19 | So today the needs of the mentally ill and handicapped are seen as demanding a wide range of facilities : homes , centres , clinics and so forth , served by doctors , nurses , teachers , psychologists , psychotherapists , speech therapists and residential care workers , linked by a body of trained social workers and placed within a tolerant , accepting and truly caring community . |
| 20 | Similarly , one could not satisfactorily analyse modalism in rock music without also dealing with the decline of modal folk song , in its traditional social contexts ; the urban folk revival ; the use of modal techniques by elite composers , and the ‘ discovery ’ of modal medieval and renaissance music ; the commodification of major-minor tonality by Tin Pan Alley and Hollywood , against which modalism could be seen as ‘ exotic ’ or ‘ primitive ’ ; the internationalization of capital bringing , through American cultural imperialism , the influence of modal Afro-American musics which , at the same time , could be seen as offering a potential for critique vis-à-vis the dominant , major-minor musical language ; and so on . |
| 21 | As well as being , then , a means of administration and management of social relations , the state , and its symbols of home , land , family , nationhood and communal experience , are also seen as offering a sense of identity and security : especially to people who have little understanding and control over the processes affecting their everyday lives . |
| 22 | The Mountbatten Building in the Grassmarket , which is for sale , was seen as offering a 50 per cent increase in purpose-built teaching space , plus the benefits of a city-centre location . |
| 23 | Applications to the panel by auditors might be equally rare , since these could be seen as acknowledging a failure to establish an effective ( and durable ) professional relationship . |
| 24 | Since the Harrods department store bombing of December 1983 [ see p. 32809 ] , the IRA had desisted from attacks on the mainland in which the public was directly endangered , and the station bombings were thus seen as marking a change in IRA tactics . |
| 25 | Roh 's decision was also seen as marking a clear break in the increasingly tense relationship between himself and his designated heir , Kim Young Sam . |
| 26 | While prices were forcast to fall by about 10 per cent on average next year , a slow decline in interest rates over the next 12 months was seen as prompting a resurgence the following spring . |
| 27 | This puts black women directly in the firing line : firstly , because they are seen as playing a key role in reproducing the alien culture , and , secondly , because their fertility is identified as excessive and therefore threatening . |
| 28 | The appointment of new and conservative judges in the later 1980s was seen as posing a threat to the basic rights enunciated in Roe , yet in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services ( 1989 ) and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey ( 1992 ) the court condoned further restrictions being placed by the states on the circumstances under which women could obtain abortions , while refusing to decide directly to reverse the principles in Roe . |
| 29 | According to leaked Cabinet documents , planned compensation would total £135 million , although the farms were currently valued at £850 million , and the proposal was inevitably seen as posing a threat to the position of the country 's white farming community . |
| 30 | A referendum on self-government held on March 21 in Tatarstan was seen as posing a potential challenge to the integrity of the Russian Federation . |