Example sentences of "[vb past] to [be] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | One aspect of this fear was the way in which the new notion of female impurity rapidly made inroads into the popular imagination , with the result that women came to be seen as a constant stumbling block to man 's improvement , a blight on the possibility of his attaining the now required ( i.e. post-exilic ) standard of personal purity . |
| 2 | Officers were no longer members , and increasingly education came to be seen not as a separate or specialized concern of local government but as a service to be considered alongside housing , transport , or rubbish collection . |
| 3 | In post-Neolithic religious ideologies , however , attitudes to nature and to animal suffering became dissociated , and nature — in the sense of wilderness — came to be seen as fundamentally antagonistic to human interests ; a source of weeds , pests , predators and the dark forces of chaos . |
| 4 | Local political activity came to be seen as part and parcel of changes taking place within capitalist society as a whole , especially within the capitalist state as it attempts to manage and transform a social and economic system in profound crisis . |
| 5 | The term ‘ local state ’ gained critical acceptance and helped place on a new conceptual stage the mass of research and political activity that had gathered around local , or community , politics since the late 1960s. for those on the radical left , the state , and of course the local state , came to be seen as a site of competing political interests rather than as a neutral set of administrative institutions . |
| 6 | This done , it was not long before the advantages of trusts in creating rights in third parties came to be seen and to be put to good use . |
| 7 | It came to be seen as yet another instance of the depravity of the Sussex poor , firmly pointed out in 1834 : |
| 8 | But these were local efforts and as landlords , tenants and labourers were locked in a situation whose extent was only just becoming apparent , endemic poverty came to be seen less as the will of God than as a widespread indication of human failure . |
| 9 | The dramatic and mythological language disappeared and was replaced by a doctrine more fitted to legalism or the language of the ledger : salvation came to be seen as a question of balancing the books , or paying debts to the debtor . |
| 10 | And it was a record that came to be seen and recognised by the local electorate , in particular the newly enfranchised women , not least through the efforts of Labour candidates to exploit it to political advantage . |
| 11 | They successfully politicised lived experiences of women in such a way that their concerns came to be seen as the concerns of Labour . |
| 12 | Similarly , the impact of GIST may have been as great in schools which had no contact with the project at all , because of the changing climate of opinion in which girls ' under-achievement in science and technology came to be seen as a serious educational issue . |
| 13 | The family came to be seen as a refuge from a harsh world in which men were pitted against each other in merciless competition . |
| 14 | Because grants to courtiers came to be seen as an abuse , monopolies to individuals were prohibited in 1624 , but corporations could still receive them and they continued to be the basis for trade outside Europe in the seventeenth century . |
| 15 | The Navigation Acts were not in the first instance devised to make up for the fact that some English revenue was devoted to colonial defence , but defending the colonies came to be seen as an integral part of the Old Colonial System . |
| 16 | Erm as it develops under the impact of the French revolution and Napoleonic rule and then later what nationalism came to be seen as it 's the basically the idea that erm that people of a common culture history and language should occupy perhaps that 's the wrong word . |
| 17 | And in a sense the holy alliance came to be seen as representing their interests . |
| 18 | The tax thus came to be seen as an impost on the whole community , to which the general assent of the community was required . |
| 19 | For most consensus theorists , the answer lies in a theory of social structure made famous by Durkheim in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and developed to such an extent by Talcott Parsons and his followers in the USA between the 1930s and 1950s that during these years it came to be seen as the sociological theory . |
| 20 | While these national liberation movements in the Third World were in theory modelled on the nationalism of the West , in practice the states they attempted to construct were generally the opposite of the ethnically and linguistically homogeneous entities which came to be seen as the standard form of ‘ nation- state ’ in the West . |
| 21 | Don Cupitt indeed suggests that the fact that Jesus , a human being , came to be seen as God , made for a situation whereby God the ‘ Father ’ also was conceived more anthropomorphically than was the case within the Jewish background . |
| 22 | In the 1960s , cloze procedure came to be seen by some researchers as the answer to many of the problems of validly measuring text difficulty . |
| 23 | The Berlin Wall came to be seen in the West as a symbol of the oppression of Communism , the most visible example of the ‘ Iron Curtain' . |
| 24 | In , his autobiography he is critical of the quality of his local officials who , under pressures from their members , came to be seen as " relieving officers coming to the assistance of every seaman who is down and out " whether their hard luck stories were true or not . |
| 25 | The cost of inter-imperialist rivalry and wars , as well as the cost of administering the colonies , eventually came to be seen as wasteful and this , with the economic crisis of the 1930s , led to a problem of low profitability and under-consumption ; in other words , a decline in effective demand . |
| 26 | Like it or not , democracy ( which at the time meant votes for male workers ) gradually came to be seen as inevitable . |
| 27 | Politics came to be seen as a social and collective activity which rose above the individual but which somehow fell short of the ideal of the nation or the whole community . |
| 28 | The post-war commitment to full-employment increased their bargaining power ; the strike weapon in the context of a complex and interdependent economy meant that they could exert considerable pressure " through their capacity to disrupt and delay ; and as inflation came to be seen as the problem ( and as a problem caused by " excessive " wages demands backed by strikes ) so trade unions found themselves in a new position of strategic importance and power . |
| 29 | Whereas the Shah came to be seen in Iran as doorman to the Great Satan , pushing Western goods and notions , Hassan had cleverly portrayed himself as resisting both Moroccos former colonizers the French , and , more recently , the American intrusion . |
| 30 | There was so much new knowledge in science , and degrees in science came to be seen as an alternative to degrees in classics or mathematics rather than as something to be done afterwards as an optional extra , or taken as a merely voluntary course of lectures . |