Example sentences of "[prep] be view as " in BNC.

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1 Her adolescent rebellion , seemingly involving immoderate sex and the moderate occult , was clearly supposed to be viewed as a stand against the social codes of her English middle-class tribe .
2 While profit used to be viewed as a sufficient objective in itself , creating benefits for stakeholders is seen as the ultimate objective .
3 For the people as a whole , therefore , the destruction of the Temple and the exile to Babylon came to be viewed as a dramatic realization of these doom prophecies , and proof of the absolute power of the jealous God Yahweh , and — harnessing these concepts to their own pragmatic ends — the exiles set about ridding themselves of all impurity in an effort to regain his favour .
4 Also , eating is not likely to be viewed as a cardinal sin .
5 If a senior officer were to be viewed as no more than a member of an amorphous managerial team , said Mr Roach , the public would be led to believe that any complaint against a policemen was merely being investigated by ‘ one of the boys .
6 Unfortunately , in the year 1880 , what came to be viewed as the greatest injustice ever to be perpetrated against deaf people occurred in September when the highly-misleading International Congress of Teachers of Deaf-Mutes was convened in Milan , Italy .
7 As events unfolded and the Library Association failed to act it is to be viewed as a piece of misfortune for the Code , and hence the Association and for the profession .
8 He 'd travelled half round the world , seen and done things she could only guess at , while she 'd never been further than Kingswood when she 'd been taken to be viewed as apprentice to a nailmaker .
9 They did not want their gesture to be viewed as part of that historical movement but as a genuine protest with genuine grievances .
10 For this reason , the years 1559 to 1625 need to be viewed as a distinct religious period , during the course of which the Elizabethan church founded in 1559 gradually came to acquire a deep hold on the affections of the English people .
11 This , said Mr Harcourt , would cause Clayoquot Sound to be viewed as a paragon of balance between the interests of industry and those of the environment .
12 Hence as the enemy of society the witch comes to be viewed as the embodiment of all those dark forces which threaten cooperation , group cohesion , and the entire moral order .
13 If this issue is not addressed , NT may come to be viewed as an American English system .
14 Instead of being perceived simply as agents of the shareholders the board of directors came to be viewed as an organ of the company which for many purposes could be treated as the company .
15 The major purpose in outlining the roles within the Rowdies group has been to demonstrate that football fans of this type are not simply to be viewed as a disordered bunch of maniacs .
16 So the network relationships contracted between individuals are functional , just as linguistic variation is also functional ( L. Milroy , 1987 , discusses examples in which social network relationships are important enough to be viewed as survival mechanisms ) .
17 Educational policy frequently becomes confused with social policy , as can be seen , for example , in the way that educational integration can come to be viewed as a sometimes misguided way of caring rather than a means of achieving access to society through education .
18 They argue that it is unnatural to break up a programme which was made to be viewed as a whole .
19 For ‘ proposing to carry lemons with us to Sky [ sic ] that he might be sure to have his lemonade ’ , Johnson ticked off Boswell — on two counts : that he , Sam , did not wish to be viewed as someone who could not do without his preferences ; and that it was ‘ very bad manners to carry provisions to any man 's house , as if he could not entertain you .
20 Right cause , wrong leader : Prince Charles has come to be viewed as a drunken , disorganised fop .
21 Initially the stated aim had been to promote economic and cultural co-operation , but the revolutionary developments in Eastern Europe since 1989 had added a new dimension , the grouping coming to be viewed as a vehicle for bringing emergent east European democracies into the Western fold .
22 On Sept. 23 Bush said in his address to the UN General Assembly that the equation of Zionism with racism was " to reject Israel itself " , and that if the UN were to be viewed as a peacemaking body , the 1975 UN resolution on the subject [ see p. 27487 ] should be repealed .
23 However , its purpose seems to be viewed as one of providing information .
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