Example sentences of "see as [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 All 5 Christian traditions will use the new church and the Queen 's presence is being seen as cementing unity after centuries of conflict .
2 Quite distinct from the implications for increased efficiency , where managers are seen as holding positions of power for the purpose of furthering the public interest it is appropriate that there should be public participation in the formulation of appropriate performance standards and that those who have culpably fallen below them should be held to account in a public forum .
3 This action is seen as absolving Pilate of guilt for the death of Jesus .
4 Like Anne , she saw the current situation as none of her business — and wished not to be seen as taking sides .
5 Such behaviour is seen as taking place within ‘ the basic unit of society ’ , the family , ‘ which is founded on marriage ’ .
6 Fundamental to British education is the aim to help all children achieve their full potential , and this is generally seen as involving building on the strengths children bring with them to schools .
7 Similarly , the techniques and tools of structured systems analysis can be incorporated into the conventional approach or can be seen as forming part of an alternative methodology for applications development .
8 So far we have mentioned two reasons why theories must be seen as organized structures of some kind : the fact that historical study shows theories to possess that feature and the fact that it is only by way of a coherently structured theory that concepts acquire a precise meaning .
9 They did acquit themselves well with heavier strings and a flat pick , but in the main they were seen as fingerpicking guitars .
10 If competition generated raw aggression resulting in defeat or death this can hardly be seen as assisting fitness maximisation .
11 This is seen as using RDS as a data channel of very limited capacity in conjunction with a speech synthesis chip or possibly some form of printer in the car ( it could provide automatic translation when travelling abroad ) as a means of sending ‘ traffic telegrams ’ to cars without interrupting the radio programmes .
12 These processes could also be seen as embodying tendencies towards regional equality .
13 In fact , the rational expectations hypothesis is sometimes seen as providing support for the ‘ strong ’ version of the Friedman approach to monetary policy in which the x per cent rule is made constitutionally binding .
14 A representative system of government , coupled with a division of powers , was thus seen as providing safeguards against the dangers of democracy .
15 The vote for presidential reform was seen as expressing impatience on the part of Walesa at the speed of political change in Poland .
16 The Soviet government 's insistence on cash aid is seen as hampering efforts to develop cross-border co-operation in cleaning up the region 's pollution , 80 per cent of which is believed to originate from Soviet plants .
17 The £230 million package to provide more than 100,000 new opportunities for the long-term unemployed and the , widely expected , go-ahead for joint Government/private sector involvement in the three huge capital projects were also seen as underlining Mr Lamont 's commitment to a Budget for Jobs .
18 In so far as this book is a plea for some measure of reform in the priority given to sexual considerations in social work cases , public attitudes must be seen as creating obstacles .
19 The system was seen as creating dependency in that young people were passed from the hands of one professional to another , pressurised by the demands of each professional discipline , and had their ‘ needs ’ determined by others .
20 The 1980 Education Act , which extended parental choice of schools , was seen as creating pressures for the raising of academic standards .
21 In the 1960s and '70s it was seen as whisking people from a London roof-top to one in Paris in less than an hour .
22 In this conception of the state the bureaucracy is seen as drawing strength from different groups .
23 On the first few dates or longer , some young couples are too embarrassed to talk about it , let alone go and do anything about it , and girls do n't want to be seen as anticipating sex and run the risk of being labelled as slags .
24 Complex human behaviour is seen as established sequences or chains of S-R bonds .
25 The difference , however , between The Philosophy of Money and most of the later works is that in the early book the rupture created through the rise of money is seen to be inseparable as a historical moment from its positive aspects ; that is , it is seen as representing freedom and potential equality .
26 Most of these developments might be seen as making English less different , but the kinds of changes that go on in ‘ literary theory ’ are unlikely to be familiar to anyone but a philosopher .
27 Names mentioned as possibly on the short-list are Paul Stern , lately of Northern Telecom Ltd and seen as having enemies among IBM 's present top brass ; Perot Systems Corp chairman Morton Meyerson , Motorola Inc chief executive George Fisher and Louis Gerstner , chairman of RJR Nabisco Inc .
28 Women were already an issue in industrial sociology ; for example , married women with home responsibilities were seen as ‘ problems ’ for employers ( Brown et al , 1964 ) and women were seen as having difficulties accommodating their ‘ two roles ’ ( Myrdal and Klein , 1956 ; Klein , 1965 ; Komarovsky , 1962 ) .
29 Sleep had always been regarded as being in some way analogous to death ; the hypnotic trance was seen as having aspects of both conditions .
30 This view was widely seen as having implications for future legal actions by pressure groups .
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