Example sentences of "seen as [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Left-wing militancy a–d more especially the left-ward lurch of the Socialist Party are thus seen as responses to right-wing intransigence , and the right as bearing the main responsibility for political breakdown , ever-worsening social conflict , and ultimately , civil war . |
| 2 | Fan letters , fanzines and the many SF conventions around the world can be seen as responses to such experiences of reading SF . |
| 3 | These changes can be seen as elements of a programme intended to open up more aspects of public sector provision to the market and to undermine the powers of state bureaucracy , particularly as highlighted by exponents of ‘ public choice theory ’ . |
| 4 | Paley was quite right to insist that the adaptation of each individual species to its environment was an indication of divine forethought , but it was equally important to demonstrate the existence of an underlying pattern that showed that all species could be seen as elements within a rational plan . |
| 5 | Despite the crises of the period 1945–50 , these years can also be seen as ones of great opportunity . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | THE APPROACH of the Eden Park Test initially was viewed with trepidation , and the majority of the five changes to the home team were seen as signs of disarray rather than as providing fresh blood . |
| 9 | Bankers and tourism may be seen as signs of economic insecurity . |
| 10 | There are therefore different aspects of the functionalist style which can most readily be seen as tensions between empiricism and rationalism or positivism and idealism . |
| 11 | Even if literary texts were not seen as copies of reality , they were nevertheless regarded as copies of structuralist models . |
| 12 | But , in so far as they are to be seen as sons of the lost primal mother , they clearly represent the manic alternative to the depressive self-punishment of the followers of Cybele or the castrated and killed sons of the Great Mother represented by Attis and Tammuz , by the dead and dismembered Osiris , or the crucified Christ . |
| 13 | Pornography , prostitution and homosexuality continue to be seen as variations on a theme to this day , something we implicitly acknowledged when we adopted the word ‘ gay ’ as our own . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The relatively puny Fascist and Communist movements in Britain gained attention because they were seen as projections of much more important European counterparts . |
| 16 | The retinues of other northern lords can also be seen as components of the ducal connection . |
| 17 | The retinues of other northern lords can also be seen as components of the ducal connection . |
| 18 | These were seen as products of a new strategy on the part of Britain to ensure its continued domination of Ireland : |
| 19 | Prescriptive rules , on the other hand , are seen as directions for action . |
| 20 | Both were seen as sources of disease , bodily or spiritual , moral corruptions which were spreading throughout the land . |
| 21 | Findings discovered in this way should be seen as sources of hypotheses for further testing , not as results in themselves . |
| 22 | Those on the left who have dared not to act in moderation — the Hattons , Grants and Livingstones — have been violently pilloried , whilst their counterparts on the right — the Tebbits , the Brittans — have usually been seen as pioneers of reform . |
| 23 | The point is not that the theological pronouncements of scientists are to be discounted but rather that they do sometimes have to be seen as efforts at mediation . |
| 24 | As football has become a big-business enterprise in this country , and since the players , who once were seen as members of the same working-class community as the fans themselves , have become rich superstars , the close identity between fans and their team has been eroded . |
| 25 | They are essentially problems of the youngster concerned but , in becoming matters of concern for the parents , they are automatically seen as problems in the youngster . |
| 26 | Thus the various parts of the superstructure can be seen as instruments of ruling class domination and as mechanisms for the oppression of the subject class . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The boundaries of these crofts at Cosmeston can clearly be seen as earthworks in the field on the opposite side of the road to the village . |
| 29 | Patrilocal residence , where women join the households of their husbands rather than vice versa , and the continued strength of the system of domestic production , where families consume most of what they produce rather than buy and sell in the market , have always been seen as obstacles to capitalist development in the Third World and as strong reinforcements for the maintenance of feudal-patriarchal relations . |
| 30 | Both have contended with disease and suffering , and have been seen as near-saints by a grateful and admiring public . |