Example sentences of "[adv] seen as [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This clutch of appointments , together with her post-Falklands dominance in the Cabinet , was widely seen as heralding the introduction of a Prime Minister 's Department . |
| 2 | Parliamentary and media responses to the Report varied greatly , although it was widely seen as making an important contribution to the debate about how to respond to the riots and prevent the outbreak of violence in the future . |
| 3 | Johnny Hallyday 's Hamlet , for instance , was not widely seen as threatening the supremacy of Olivier and Gielgud . |
| 4 | The announcement , which followed a meeting of 364 UDF leaders , was widely seen as marking the end of an era in the anti-apartheid struggle . |
| 5 | Pressure will also be put on Serbia , widely seen as backing the Bosnian Serbs in the conflict . |
| 6 | The framework for an Asian Free Trade Area ( AFTA ) , and formation of a " non-institutional " discussion forum to be called the East Asian Economic Caucus ( EAEC ) , were widely seen as diluting the proposals put forward by Malaysia at the beginning of the year [ see p. 38101 ] for an East Asian Economic Grouping ( EAEG ) . |
| 7 | The Cabinet reshuffle on Sept. 16 — the first since January 1989 — was widely seen as paving the way for the next election , expected to be held ahead of the constitutional deadline of June 1992 . |
| 8 | Some firms have adopted a formula which reserves a power to prevent more than one partner departing in any given period ( say a year ) , with complementary provisions to determine priority as between notices served on the same day , though in these frantic head-hunting times when whole departments may be recruited at a stroke , such provisions are realistically best seen as providing a basis for negotiation ( and perhaps financial adjustment by way of compensation ) . |
| 9 | Note that while the first three kinds of information are relative strictly to the deictic centre , here specifically the social standing of the speaker , formality is perhaps best seen as involving a relation between all participant roles and situation ( but see Irvine , 1979 ; J. M. Atkinson , 1982 ) . |
| 10 | Apparently ruling out any form of legislative veto for minority groups ( a point on which the government side had long insisted ) , the document was nevertheless seen as containing a notable concession in its acceptance of a bicameral parliamentary system . |
| 11 | The overconstrained product design process is thus seen as emphasizing the weight of the analysis phase and its direct influence on both the scheming and manufacturing stages ( see Figure I .4 ) . |
| 12 | Since the Harrods department store bombing of December 1983 [ see p. 32809 ] , the IRA had desisted from attacks on the mainland in which the public was directly endangered , and the station bombings were thus seen as marking a change in IRA tactics . |
| 13 | The notion of acquired distinctiveness was originally devised by theorists wedded to an associationist interpretation of all forms of learning ( Miller and Dollard ( 1941 ) , drawing heavily on the S-R theory of Hull ( e.g. 1939 ) ) , who were thus seen as offering an associative account of perceptual learning . |
| 14 | The ‘ societal reaction ’ that defines crime and deviance was also seen as having a profound effect on the criminals and deviants themselves . |
| 15 | Roh 's decision was also seen as marking a clear break in the increasingly tense relationship between himself and his designated heir , Kim Young Sam . |
| 16 | As well as being , then , a means of administration and management of social relations , the state , and its symbols of home , land , family , nationhood and communal experience , are also seen as offering a sense of identity and security : especially to people who have little understanding and control over the processes affecting their everyday lives . |
| 17 | Bannon 's resignation was also seen as increasing the difficulties of federal Prime Minister Paul Keating whose ALP government was recording poor popularity ratings and was due to face a federal election not later than May 1993 . |
| 18 | If account is to be taken of what has been described as concern with the well-being of the system , then " the best way of earning public confidence is the most direct : to be clearly seen as doing a good job " ( Becher et al 1981:156 ) . |
| 19 | It is also important to remember that where jobs are indeed a problem , as in Ireland , postgraduate research positions should be clearly seen as making a major contribution to employment — where else would employment cost so little and the employee undergo intensive training ? |
| 20 | According to leaked Cabinet documents , planned compensation would total £135 million , although the farms were currently valued at £850 million , and the proposal was inevitably seen as posing a threat to the position of the country 's white farming community . |
| 21 | At the time , however , they were accepted ( indeed assiduously pored over and frequently quoted by Citrine and others ) as embodying two widely-approved aspirations : firstly , a general desire to spread the benefits of cheap electricity widely ( with the ‘ public interest ’ implicitly seen as overriding the tyranny of the profit-and-loss account ) ; and secondly ( but not entirely consistently ) the view that these economic objectives should be pursued not through political or civil service channels but by the ‘ business ’ board of a public corporation with some genuine independence . |
| 22 | Such a theory is then seen as explaining the deference of politicians to the interests of minorities ; and a new and perhaps superior version of democratic theory is presented which has as its hallmark the achievement of a political consensus in which minority interests are protected . |
| 23 | The disorder is sometimes seen as serving a homoeostatic or stabilising role in the family . |
| 24 | Human beings are therefore seen as having a seventy million year old ‘ wiring ’ . |