Example sentences of "often see as a " in BNC.

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1 The maturing of British cinema between 1939 and 1945 is often seen as a particular response to the conditions of wartime , when filmmakers were called upon to communicate to audiences an idea of ‘ what we are fighting for . ’
2 Yet in the first half of the century the number of unmarried women increased substantially , so that they formed a significant minority group Spinsters maintained an anomalous social position and were often seen as a threat to a society that assumed all women would marry and be subject to the control of their husbands [ Hill , 229–30 ] .
3 Furthermore , the harvest feast was often seen as a focus for the customary rights of agricultural workers , including the crucial right of access to common land .
4 Although legal intervention is often seen as a means of last resort in cases of extremely persistent truancy , the problem may , by then , have become too firmly entrenched .
5 The struggle , however , was most often seen as a defence of traditional liberties , not of ‘ liberty ’ itself .
6 This data is apposite because , like women , children are often treated as a particularly vulnerable audience , at risk from the material they consume : whilst , like the romance , television is often seen as a particularly potent source of ideological contamination .
7 It is always hard to forgive people because forgiveness is often seen as a sign of weakness and we feel vulnerable enough after we have been hurt that we tend to build a wall between ourselves and those who have offended us , rather than to have the strength to forgive them and therefore become reconciled with them .
8 ‘ Our next guest is often seen as a maverick in the world of needlework ’
9 Because that level was set by the government , the licence fee was too often seen as a political issue and a source of political pressure .
10 For rock climbers abseiling is often seen as a necessary evil , only because belays are often flimsy and safety ropes never used .
11 Power is often seen as a sinister concept .
12 F. H. A. Marshall 's Physiology of Reproduction ( 1910 ) , in examining current views , found that menstruation was often seen as a disease symptom so that ‘ the phenomenon of menstruation must be looked upon as belonging to the borderland of pathology ’ .
13 Often seen as a major stage in the humanisation of sexual relations and in the development of a single standard of morality , which was certainly the intention of feminists such as Josephine Butler , the changes nevertheless involved an extension of social regulation of sexual behaviour .
14 Commissioning research on the use of deprivation indices in allocating formulas is therefore often seen as a means of arguing more effectively for a bigger share .
15 It is often seen as a subject with very limited aims , usually the acquisition of knowledge and information about ages remote from our own , and whose teaching is restricted to dictated notes , copying from textbooks and rote learning .
16 Yet although often seen as a tough guy , Bob Hoskins has tried to avoid typecasting .
17 Yet although often seen as a tough guy , Bob Hoskins has tried to avoid typecasting .
18 Some of them can be issues relating to these energy matters that we have been discussing , and in fact one of the aims of introducing this form of discussion is that science is often seen as a very factual subject — that you just receive and learn the facts .
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