Example sentences of "was see [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British government was seen as completely dominated by Jewish interests since the Marconi scandal , with Isaacs , Montagu and Mond allegedly pulling the strings behind Lloyd George . |
| 2 | Finally and perhaps most importantly , Lovell criticised the narrowness of Lacanian psychoanalytic concerns because of their focus on the construction of individual subjectivity rather than on ways in which a collective subject can be constituted , and because the Lacanian subject was seen as ultimately powerless . |
| 3 | After victory over China in 1895 made territorial control a reality , the haphazard search for political and economic influence ( direct or indirect ) of earlier years became a systematic one , in which emulation of Western imperialism was seen as both practicable and desirable . |
| 4 | At a time when scientific advance was seen as universally beneficial , the nuclear industry was judged to be at the cutting edge of technological endeavour . |
| 5 | Despite explanations that the various options had been carefully considered in advance in anticipation of a disappointing ballot result , her action was seen as yet further evidence of the style of government which had helped precipitate the leadership crisis . |
| 6 | The merger failed because , in the post-Westland environment it was seen as yet another sop to the United States , and more specifically , because GM insisted that Land Rover should be included in the package with Leyland Vehicles . |
| 7 | The star system , that ‘ Hollywood poison ’ , according to Hugh Castle , was seen as yet another concession to the masses , for , as Clifford Howard explained , ‘ the crowd ( and it is the crowd that supports the movies ) can not appreciate entertainment in the abstract , any more than it can thus appreciate art or religion ’ . |
| 8 | Its lack of a well-developed indigenous middle class to act as a focus for a national identity meant that the failure of the nobility to resist partition was seen as exactly that : not a failure of the Polish people , but a failure of the Polish nobility . |
| 9 | In this sense , the military was seen as simply part of the nation 's organizational structure under party control and direction , like everyone else . |
| 10 | It was seen as particularly acute in June for S4 pupils . |
| 11 | The decision was seen as particularly embarrassing for Aquino as the original charge had been selected because of its severity , in an attempt to deter further coup attempts by demonstrating a new determination to punish insurrectionists . |
| 12 | Kerrey 's withdrawal was seen as particularly good news for Clinton as it offered the prospect of removing from the campaign the rancorous legacy of the Vietnam war . |
| 13 | A place at grammar school was seen as hardly more genuinely open to everyone than a fee-paying place at a public school ; and so the move towards comprehensive schools was made , largely on grounds of justice . |
| 14 | Admittedly war with the USSR was seen as only a distant possibility . |
| 15 | When ‘ criminals ’ were seen to include protesters against war , pollution and the infringement of minority rights , or people who preferred cannabis to alcohol , such a view was seen as highly offensive . |
| 16 | Given these relatively small amounts of out-of-hours worked we wondered why duty was seen as so stressful ? |
| 17 | Although company policy , especially among the larger cartels , was seen as politically neutral , in practice the links between German business and political life were very close indeed . |
| 18 | Amongst the physical science students , however , personal utility was seen as crucially important , although sometimes social utility and personal utility were confused , students not distinguishing between the two . |
| 19 | Thus the loss was seen as mainly symbolic in that the school was regarded as a ‘ natural ’ part of the way of life in the community but no particular evidence was used in its support . |
| 20 | There had been some 400,000 arrivals since the 1988 elections ( including 240,000 from the former Soviet Union ) , and 240,000 of them were eligible to vote , which was seen as possibly a decisive factor in what was expected to be a close electoral contest . |
| 21 | Washington was seen as insufficiently appreciative of British efforts , nor was its main ally always properly consulted before major foreign-policy decisions were taken which affected its interests . |
| 22 | In both Classical and Christian thinking mysticism represents a way back to the source of being , but in Christian thinking from the fourth century on , the gulf between Creator and created was seen as mysteriously bridged by the love of God incarnate in Jesus Christ , God 's Word , the expression of himself manifest in time , which , in turn , enables human knowledge and love which are the way back . |
| 23 | He admitted , though , that Labour was seen as too producer-oriented : ‘ We should be able to give a value to unpolluted air , clean water , a safe environment , as the end-products of economic activity . ’ |
| 24 | Work itself with its complicated fluctuation of task was seen as too complicated for a worker to understand and the belief was that only management could do so . |
| 25 | His own popularity had declined amongst the Chinese people and he was seen as too old and unwell for the job . |
| 26 | Reich was seen as too political in his work and was eventually removed from the International Psychoanalytic movement . |
| 27 | Moreover , it was seen as too generous at a time when those parties had become more extreme . |
| 28 | The only possible arts organization , the National Association for Education in the Arts ( NAEA ) , was seen as too diffuse in its objectives and interests , and too uncertain in its arts educational stance to be useful in this respect . |
| 29 | Oil-spill experts from a number of countries flew into the area to assist with cleaning-up operations , which were largely limited to defending the intakes of desalination plants with the use of booms and " skimmer " vessels ; the slick was seen as too large for practical use of chemical dispersants , which might in any case damage marine life , and the best hope for its dispersal lay in a combination of the natural processes of evaporation and breakdown by marine bacteria . |
| 30 | In Britain the new anatomy was seen as especially threatening because the traditional sources of power and influence had committed themselves to Paley 's argument from design . |