Example sentences of "[adv] see [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , the MSc in Education is not only seen as a regular part of the national system of educational in-service education in Scotland , but it has a strong international appeal . |
| 2 | He is probably also right when he says that he is only seen as a Spanish artist because his interest lies in Spanish art , instead of in French art ‘ like everyone else' : in other words , within the accepted categories there is no room for a Mexican who is interested in Spanish art . ' |
| 3 | It can be better seen as a necessary precondition for the continuing existence , not of an individual , as is the case with hunger , but of the species . |
| 4 | Edward Bwanali , a veteran Minister hitherto seen as a possible successor to Banda , was dismissed from the Cabinet in the April reshuffle [ see p. 37558 ] , and in May was dismissed as MCP chairman for the populous southern region . |
| 5 | Miltiadis Evert , hitherto seen as a possible successor to Prime Minister Konstaninos Mitsotakis , was dismissed on Oct. 26 as Minister to the Prime Minister , a key post involving responsibility for intelligence and relations with the international media . |
| 6 | Jorge Risquet Valdés-Saldaña , a seasoned diplomat hitherto seen as a rising star in the party , was removed from the seven-strong PCC secretariat as part of the changes but retained his seat on the politburo which advised the secretariat . |
| 7 | We had unlimited German labour available , and also at our command their talent for organization , which is rightly seen as a German national characteristic . |
| 8 | Miles of sugar cane , followed by miles of flat desert country , all seen through a damp haze so that nothing seemed real . |
| 9 | The familiar is suddenly seen in a new way ; the student 's core discipline is illuminated under a different cognitive perspective . |
| 10 | One of the earliest military initiatives of the new state — the raising of an expeditionary force to suppress the Irish rebellion — was partly motivated both by security considerations and by the prospect of financial gain , but was also widely seen as a religious crusade ; this fact was clearly demonstrated in the autumn of 1649 , when Cromwell 's soldiers attacked the Catholic inhabitants of Drogheda and Wexford with a savagery which only religious conflict can engender . |
| 11 | Syria 's anti-Iraqi stance in the Gulf crisis [ see pp. 37694 ; 37636-37 ] was widely seen as a major factor influencing the UK decision to resume relations . |
| 12 | Although Sacheverell was found guilty , the decision by the House of Lords on 21 March to impose the mild sentence of three years ' suspension from preaching was widely seen as a moral victory for the doctor over the Whigs , and the news was greeted with ( often violent ) celebrations throughout the country . |
| 13 | His achievement of only 7 per cent of the vote was widely seen as a decisive rejection of his racially oriented campaign . |
| 14 | The imminent release of the " Birmingham Six " was widely seen as a foregone conclusion after Sir Allan Green , the Director of Public Prosecutions , said at a preliminary hearing of the appeal on Feb. 7 that the Crown no longer sought to uphold the convictions on the basis of the scientific evidence . |
| 15 | In what was widely seen as a veiled attack on the French government , the Moroccan authorities blamed the disturbances on " a conspiracy of foreign countries " . |
| 16 | The contentious proposals have been under consideration for a number of years , says English Heritage , and are not principally attributable to its new director , the controversial Jocelyn Stevens , widely seen as a hardline , Thatcherite free marketeer . |
| 17 | The act was widely seen as a direct challenge to local representational democracy , and revealed much about the capacity of labourism to respond to perceived threats to its authority . |
| 18 | Labour 's share of the vote fell from 35.9 per cent in 1987 to 30.5 per cent , a result widely seen as a popular rejection of the government 's positive policies toward the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 19 | Canova 's work , like that of Bates , was the product of a patriarchal system in which woman was rarely seen as a professional participant . |
| 20 | An additional comment , raised during the plenary session , was that those from ethnic communities were rarely seen as a positive resource able to offer a new expertise , but that , rather , they were regarded as being doubly disadvantaged in that they were often seen as not being fluent users of English and not being part of the British culture . |
| 21 | A collection so rarely seen as a compact whole , provided many with an eye opener as to the quality and range of the work housed in the University corridors and offices . |
| 22 | How royal conflicts could engage these various interests is best seen through a detailed investigation of one particular crisis . |
| 23 | Parliament is thus best seen as a cyclical phenomenon — it is born , lives , dies and is then reborn … . |
| 24 | It has a beautiful purple sheen which is best seen against a dark background , so have a well-planted tank with black gravel . |
| 25 | Faces are best seen against a plain background , so avoid heavily patterned wallpaper and fussy wall ornaments . |
| 26 | Water is therefore no longer seen as a simple collection of individual water molecules , but as a complex random network of molecules linked together by hydrogen bonds and forming extensive three-dimensional structures which are continually changing and reorganizing . |
| 27 | New secretary Paul Birks of Mason 's Ironstone , who has taken over from Peter Masheter , said : ‘ Golf is no longer seen as a rich man 's sport and is accessible to all ages and pockets . |
| 28 | There is one curious feature of sociology that is worth mentioning , namely that methods these days are largely seen as a distinctive branch of the discipline . |
| 29 | Nabiyev had led the republic 's Communist Party under Brezhnev , and was generally seen as a hard-line conservative . |
| 30 | His turn to diffusionism , however , was generally seen as a misguided shift towards a method of interpretation that relied too heavily on conjecture . |