Example sentences of "seen [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long experience suggests that magnetic disks have seen off a long series of challenges over the past 15 years — but a review of the survival and thriving of the technology gives a very partial and inadequate view . |
| 2 | Most common cavity episodes had a single transient UOS relaxation , but up to five were seen during a single episode . |
| 3 | He is seen as a reforming Communist and was , for a while , in charge of the youth section of the party and a provincial Communist Party leader . |
| 4 | They also perceive a danger that their skills in recruiting volunteers will be seen as a cheap way of providing care . |
| 5 | It was seen as a temporary move to improve liquidity over Christmas , rather than an indication of a new trend in interest rates . |
| 6 | Each individual organism should be seen as a temporary vehicle , in which DNA messages spend a tiny fraction of their geological lifetimes . |
| 7 | Passing on life to another generation is seen as a great privilege and joy . |
| 8 | However , since the project was designed for small samples , which would encourage certain types of analysis rather than others , the shortfall in the Ipswich control area was not seen as a great disadvantage . |
| 9 | However , if success can be measured by the number of governments in all parts of the world now privatising their state-owned assets , then privatisation can be seen as a great success . |
| 10 | In such an optimistic climate it was easier for national governments and interest groups to go along with the economic ambitions of the EEC ; it was not seen as a great threat to their own concerns . |
| 11 | Nonetheless , although for many people the rise in car ownership can be seen as a great success , for a significant minority either unable to drive or unable to afford a car , notably the old , the young , the unemployed , the housewife ( left at home without a car ) and the disabled the corollary of increased car ownership has been a rapid decline in rural public transport , a concentration of services into ever more remote central places with increased journey lengths as shown in Table 6.1a , and a real sense of isolation and deprivation . |
| 12 | This positive curvature of space-time , which reflects the fact that gravity is attractive , was seen as a great problem by Einstein . |
| 13 | Sometimes this initial encounter with the Spirit is seen as a great washing ( 1 Cor. 6:11 ) . |
| 14 | He was also a man who got on well with almost all his associates , and his early death in 1854 was seen as a great blow to natural history . |
| 15 | Alexander III has been seen as a great lawyer pope : he made pronouncements , gave judgments and held a council for the whole Church in which the law was defined . |
| 16 | His conduct of the crisis could be seen as a great achievement , yet something so negative and distasteful was not what he would have wished for his last service . |
| 17 | The eggs of the lacewing can often be seen as a tiny little cluster at the end of a thin hair-like little stalk usually attached to the undersides of leaves . |
| 18 | It was also seen as a stark warning for the ALP federal government which was due to face the electorate by mid-1993 . |
| 19 | To notice only the bad , when there is so much good , may be seen as a jaundiced view . |
| 20 | The South-West — whose Bath-Bristol-Gloucester resources have appeared in the past to resemble rugby 's equivalent of the Bermuda Triangle — are set on improving their disappointing Divisional Championship record , and their success against Leinster in Dublin last week was seen as a first step in the right direction . |
| 21 | By pressing actively for the payment of wages monthly instead of weekly , they have supported and contributed to the great growth or worker banking in those countries , where it has been seen as a first step to other ‘ staff status ’ privileges . |
| 22 | For the pacifists of the ILP , however , the Memorandum was seen as a first stage in the creation of a new diplomacy from below ; ‘ our own proclamations … our own diplomacy … our own international meetings ’ , as MacDonald had said at the Leeds Convention . |
| 23 | This was seen as a first step towards integrating the Soviet economy with international financial institutions , although this did not permit Soviet participation in GATT 's current multilateral Uruguay Round of trade discussions . |
| 24 | The CP acceptance of the offer was seen as a first step to its entering the CODESA process . |
| 25 | The Iranian , Syrian and Turkish governments were also reported to be concerned that the elections in Iraqi Kurdistan should not be seen as a first move towards the creation of an independent Kurdish state . |
| 26 | Others , however , including many of the heads of government who attended the conference , stressed that it should be seen as a first step towards sustainable development , and a welcome acknowledgement both of the seriousness of the problem and of the fact that global co-operation was needed to overcome it . |
| 27 | Others however , including many of the heads of state and government who attended the conference , argued that it should be seen as a first step on the road to sustainable development , a welcome acknowledgement of the seriousness of the problem , and of the fact that global co-operation was needed to tackle it . |
| 28 | It 's being seen as a first step towards opting out of the N H S. |
| 29 | That history , from one perspective , could be seen as a consistent struggle to retain Lukács ' legacy in which history , the dialectic and the totality are interdependent to the extent that each is essential to the operation of the other in the production of a Marxist science . |
| 30 | In this way change is seen as a developing social process the repercussions of which can not be completely forecast . |