Example sentences of "seen [prep] [noun sg] to " in BNC.

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1 Those drastic price cuts instituted by Univel Inc last week ( CI No 2,128 ) are being seen as response to the nervousness engendered by Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT , the most threatening vapourware ever to descend on the market .
2 Other approaches , including those of Douglas and Bourdieu , are concerned with consumers themselves as groups with interests , both cognitive and material , which are projected in patterns of objects , and in this case it is industry which is seen as handmaiden to the pattern of consumer group demands .
3 And I think that 's a , you know and it 's the fact that society allows a lot of abuse to happen to women and therefore it 's not seen as hatred to women , it 's seen as perfectly acceptable .
4 Should the plan be discovered and Alianor be seen as party to the clandestine meeting , she could well find herself in danger , accused of shelving her responsibility for the lady Anne 's protection and honour …
5 The Thomas Harris referred to was closely associated with the composer , and his signature may be seen as witness to Handel 's will and to its first three codicils ; in the fourth and last codicil he actually becomes a beneficiary .
6 As the frequency of a periodic nonsinusoidal signal becomes lower and lower , it can be seen with reference to figure 11.2(b) that its harmonic spectral components become bunched closer and closer together .
7 The technique 's impact must be seen in order to be scored .
8 It should be noted that in the dog PYY release has been seen in response to intracolonic oleic acid in the absence of bile salts .
9 Less noticeable phosphorylation of the receptor was seen in response to EGF in liver plasma membranes isolated 24 hours after partial hepatectomy and in TAGH infusion ( Figs 3 and 4 ) .
10 In our study , however , no release of VIP was seen in response to luminal infusion of bile .
11 We have seen that when facts are assembled together and seen in relationship to each other generalizations can be made which help to develop theories .
12 Everywhere , however , farming would have to be seen in relation to other actual or potential economic activities which include tourism , crafts and small scale industry .
13 He went on to say that he realized that Hall 's larger scheme might not materialize , but he thought that Government Offices in a similar style to his building would eventually extend to Great George Street where they would be seen in relation to the Abbey and the Houses of Parliament .
14 The nature of the movement of goods can only be understood if it is seen in relation to the complex and changing framework of society .
15 It is an assertion that certainly needs bringing into the debate about the Primal Event , and the usefulness of that speculative hypothesis can be seen in relation to the content of Christianity , at least .
16 The laws cover ritual and worship and many aspects of life — but all seen in relation to him .
17 It is not that stylistics is uninterested in this or that local feature of a text ; but rather that local or specific features have to be seen in relation to other features , against the background of the pervasive tendency of preferences in the text .
18 To understand any part of society , such as the family or religion , the part must be seen in relation to society as a whole .
19 Talk of the sensual , the erotic , was so often seen in relation to the female body .
20 The rise of the purity movement in the 1880s needs to be seen in relation to these medical defeats , for state medicine had lost the initiative not only in the field of sexual regulation but in many other areas of social intervention .
21 The decline of purity feminism in the 1920s and 1930s needs to be seen in relation to the overall decline of feminism , and especially to the unmitigated hostility of male sex reformers .
22 Does he also agree that , where he has extended the competence of the institutions of the European Community , we shall increasingly see , as we have seen in relation to Sunday trading and British Aerospace , the emergence of two forms of law — first , British law , which we encourage the population to obey and honour , and , secondly , European law , which we try to avoid — and thus we shall succeed in undermining the rule of law here ?
23 Here in Mixed Life , a text that must be seen in relation to Scale 1 and Scale 2 , Hilton adumbrates the same progress in chapter fourteen : Following Augustinian theology , he locates the very essence of Christian life in the continual sustained desire for God — the only way in this life to perceive the nature of the love which joins God and man 's soul .
24 She starts off in chicken stuffer 's uniform as seen in Letter To Brezhnev and ends up in designer punk bondage dress and boxing boots .
25 In a sentence such as ( 1b ) not only does did situate its lexical supplement ( eat ) in time like any other auxiliary , but it also evokes all the time necessary to actualize the infinitive 's lexeme and so produces a representation of an event seen from beginning to end as something that really takes its place in time .
26 Henceforth it was to be seen from time to time on route 16/18 .
27 The king and his brother are seen from time to time , if infrequently — and appear lively and in good health .
28 The princes were seen from time to time when , with a strong guard , they rode through the streets of the City .
29 And that small , dark young man Simon Westward , who was seen from time to time around Knockglen , he was Eve 's first cousin .
30 Govan car sheds were reputedly haunted by a figure which was seen from time to time in a driving compartment of a car but on investigation the figure had disappeared and was nowhere to be found ; the cab was empty yet strangely cold !
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