Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] could be seen [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This study could be seen as a pilot study that gives an intimation that if one has the right methodology the data which is yielded can be richer than that created from other methods . |
| 2 | The success of this liaison could be seen through the arranging of seventeen day schools and six residential WETUC weekend schools . |
| 3 | Not only had Rahner been attacked by Ottaviani a little while before , but he had long suffered at the hands of the Holy Office and his public rehabilitation could be seen as a snub for Ottaviani . |
| 4 | This reluctance could be seen as part of the general strict interpretation of exclusion clauses , but in a line of cases it was suggested that there was a rule of law that an exclusion clause could never cover a fundamental breach . |
| 5 | In truth this land could be seen as drear , |
| 6 | Thus , some of the best examples of British painting could be seen in the National Gallery and the Modern Art Museum , while the less important , but , for some , equally interesting , would have ample space of their own . |
| 7 | Alternatively third party rights in this context could be seen as a particular application of general international law : that State practice of both the treaty States and third parties has been that the canals are open for international navigation , and that there is sufficient opinio juris ( demonstrated by protest to any closure ) to support the view that there is a customary international law of transit through each canal despite their treaty origins . |
| 8 | The inadequacies of management in state enterprises have been described in dramatic terms by several Nigerian academic observers , one of whom wrote in 1974 that the reasons for the poor performance of the state-owned sector could be seen in the words of one observer ‘ in the over centralization of authority … inspired by sheer love of power ’ or by another : |
| 9 | Of course a limited budget could be seen as a challenge . |
| 10 | Yet Pearson specifically rejected this interpretation by arguing that , in the context of the insecure industrial history of Accrington , such behaviour could be seen as an understandable response although not , of course , one to be approved of . |
| 11 | In the early-morning sun the incomparably beautiful Shwe Dagon pagoda with its gold-plated spire could be seen from some miles away . |
| 12 | In essence , the objective of a state-controlled natural monopoly could be seen as the maximization of social welfare emanating from the product in question . |
| 13 | But the fact is that there might be persons eager to oppose the operation of the trust , and vested interests in declaring that no legal intention could be seen in the words used by the testator . |
| 14 | At the conclusion to Chapter 1 we provisionally adopted a multilevel concept of style , whereby more or less equivalent choices at a particular linguistic level could be seen as STYLISTIC VARIANTS , and in which these variants could be associated with STYLISTIC VALUES , or special significances associated with one variant rather than another . |
| 15 | The document recognises that informal patronage could be seen as a response to widespread deficiencies in medical education , postgraduate training , appraisal , careers guidance , and appointments procedures . |
| 16 | Today she happened to be wearing the dress of violet-coloured wool which was the last thing Miss Statham had made for her — drifts of its full skirt could be seen at the front of her grey squirrel coat . |
| 17 | If culture and artistic developments are interpreted as integral aspects of the human social condition , a subgroup 's lack of artistic development could be seen as the result of its failure to develop an active social life , or as a reflection of the dehumanisation and suppression of that group . |
| 18 | A focus upon the urban physical environment could be seen as a replacement for regional geography courses of the past but as one reviewer has noted ( Clayton , 1984 , p. 26 ) : |
| 19 | Clive and Rose Greenacre 's initial commitment could be seen in these terms , Rose in effect saying , ‘ Keep me safe , let me cling ’ , Clive continuing to allow her to do so despite his irritation . |
| 20 | The watchfires of one force could be seen by the pickets of the other . |
| 21 | The result , in the aftermath of the Japanese coup , was that immediate help to the French , who were now fighting the Japanese in Vietnam , was denied to them at a time when the US 14th Airforce in southern China could be seen by the French in Laos and Vietnam as they flew on their predetermined attacks on the Japanese elsewhere in Southeast Asia . |
| 22 | In many respects the whole General Strike could be seen as an inevitable development which served notice to government , employers and trade unions that each party was not to be taken lightly . |
| 23 | The County Council 's environmental consultants had said of the inner northern routes , rather than damaging an irrepr irreplaceable sensitive landscape as could happen with the other routes , the inner northern route could be seen as a means of improving the landscape . |
| 24 | Not one of the little piece picking a little piece out , but an overall assessment and this was produced for the County Council by their environmental consultants and was specifically referred to in the County Surveyor and I think County Planning Officer 's joint report , and that er assessment said , rather than damaging an an irreplaceable , sensitive landscape as could happen with the other routes , the inner northern route could be seen as a means of improving the landscape . |
| 25 | The same influence could be seen in its early-20th-century chat-pieces , trumpeting cricket 's role in strengthening the bonds of Britain 's empire . |
| 26 | Much of the same inspiration could be seen in the army uniform , although soldiers will be allowed to choose between the kepi and a beret . |
| 27 | The pursuers were keeping up as best they could but held little hope of catching him , though at the first fence on the second circuit — the seventeenth in the race — Red Rum could be seen to be keeping on gamely . |
| 28 | In theory , Dustin 's man of reason forced into bloody revenge could be seen as a therapeutic investigation into the nature of violence , making audiences consider their own potential for brutality . |
| 29 | When this is combined with the fact that the Republic was an overwhelmingly Catholic country whose constitution recognized the special superordinate position of the Catholic Church , it is easy to see how any state recognition of the Pope or the Catholic hierarchy could be seen as a ‘ constitutional ’ issue . |
| 30 | The history of each new class could be seen as a sudden explosion of development followed by a gradual decline , just like the rise and fall of human empires : |