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

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1 Both spoken and written texts are seen as sites where the tensions between " competing discourses " are realised .
2 Prescriptive rules , on the other hand , are seen as directions for action .
3 IBM Corp has created five new senior vice-presidents , all of which are seen as front-runners to succeed John Akers atop the company .
4 Pupils are seen as recipients , with very little to offer to the curriculum .
5 In simple societies , whose collective sentiments are based on religion , all crimes ( even crimes such as murder ) are essentially ‘ religious criminality ’ : they are seen as offences against God or the gods .
6 In the critical approach to knowledge , both the commonsense view and the academic view of the world are seen as views and not as an absolute account of the world .
7 However , so long as the figures are seen as illustrations of typical developments and not as a catalogue of all possible types of flow , this may not matter much .
8 Other energies , such as heat , are seen as manifestations of prana , rather than energies in their own right .
9 The police and civil service are seen as oppressors and terrorists .
10 In public law , on the other hand , rules of standing are seen as rules about entitlement to complain of a wrong rather than as part of the definition of the wrong .
11 But in fact the dots are seen as lines due to the laws of proximity and similarity .
12 The general view was that yes , women are seen as females first and musicians second .
13 Though these developments are seen as part of moves to reduce Macao 's dependence on gambling ( which contributes 25 per cent of government revenue ) and Hong Kong ( which provides most of its gamblers ) , they leave some residents uneasy about China 's growing involvement in the local economy .
14 Political conflicts of the sort which characterize the Northern Ireland problem are of a quite different nature because they are seen as part of a ‘ zero-sum ’ game .
15 Of course one needs to exercise some common sense about the number of objectives written for any one piece of teaching , but if teaching sessions are seen as part of a series for a given student then objectives can be written for the whole series .
16 Secondly , library skills are seen as part of a group of several related skills , suggesting that library skills should not be taught in isolation from study skills , learning skills and communication skills .
17 The Christmas visits are seen as part of the long recovery process after the accident .
18 ‘ Catholic schools will only be understood when they are seen as part of the mission of the Church , ’ said Mr Helvin .
19 Child care policies are seen as part of a structure of political and economic relations in which dominant groups control subordinate and , in particular , deviant groups by a range of sanctions .
20 It is integrated in that the activities of each region are seen as part of a global process , i.e. the experiences and insights of each region are fed into , and compared with , those of other regions .
21 Fourth , and finally , the rejection of the Athenians by the Spartans makes more sense if the Ephialtic reforms are seen as part of a process rather than as an event , that is , if the qualities which the Spartans feared were gradually manifesting themselves over the whole thirty-year period , 487–457 .
22 Conservative criminology concentrates on crimes committed by those it considers members of the dangerous classes , those who are seen as part , either of the criminal underworld , or of the lumpenproletariat .
23 Drawn from a more liberal tradition , they are seen as part of the permissive professions who encourage the delinquent and the feckless .
24 This contrasts with Derrida 's view of différance which cuts across the distinction between diachrony and synchrony by including a temporal as well as a spatial dimension : elements are seen as part of a chain of relationships which can not be de fined as either diachronic or synchronic and so can not be reduced to the status of an object in the way that synchronically defined structures can .
25 In this way Christ 's suffering from sin at the Passion , and man 's penance , are seen as part of one sacramental healing process : Such perception is foregrounded again at the point when the meditator devotionally embraces the cross .
26 Notice that both teacher and learner are seen as evaluators , a view I subscribe to ( see also Alderson 1985 ) .
27 They are seen as exercises ‘ camouflaged as stories … and are accompanied by pictures depicting situations for the description of which the child knows he would use a wide vocabulary and a rather complex sentence structure ’ ( p.221 ) , a vocabulary and sentence structure very different from those used for the primer .
28 There are few Japanese managers at Smyrna , Georgetown and Washington , and the few are seen as teachers , not meddlers .
29 It is also a play in which mortals are seen as figures of infinite pathos in a universe controlled by the whims of a cruel fate and a capricious deity .
30 Symmetry about the vertical exerts powerful effects on figure-ground segregation in normal observers ; other factors being equal , symmetrical shapes are seen as figures against asymmetrical grounds .
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