Example sentences of "[was/were] see [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Sexuality , in the sense of reproductive sex , was seen as a major instinctual factor by writers before Freud . |
| 32 | All in all , Anglo-Iranian was seen as a major tool in British control over Iran . |
| 33 | The Soviet situation was seen as a major factor in impelling the two countries to seek their current reconciliation . |
| 34 | The case was seen as a major defeat for the DEA particularly as , by acquitting the defendant rather than merely dismissing the charges , Rafeedie ensured that Alvarez could never again be tried by a US court for Camarena 's death . |
| 35 | Truancy condoned by parents who ‘ authorise ’ the child 's absence was seen as a real problem . |
| 36 | But because Hinkley C was seen as a virtual ‘ replica ’ of the Sizewell design , the NII had made it clear from the start that it had no major reservations . |
| 37 | Throughout the campaign he was deeply absorbed with the plight of the hostages in Teheran and when they were not released it was seen as a personal failure . |
| 38 | Professor John Greve of York University 's Centre for Housing Policy says it was ‘ a high-tech period where prefabrication was seen as a golden solution for building speedily . ’ |
| 39 | His ghost was seen as a negative force which might have something to do with my father 's illness . |
| 40 | It was seen as a temporary move to improve liquidity over Christmas , rather than an indication of a new trend in interest rates . |
| 41 | Initially after 1823 progress to the proper moral and natural economic order was seen as a gradual , almost automatic business which avoided irreconcilable conflicts . |
| 42 | Science fiction offered theoretical adventure and telling parallels ; travel in space was seen as a possible metaphor for earth preoccupations . |
| 43 | This engendered an ‘ us-and-them ’ attitude : information was seen as a divisional resource , only rarely to be shared with other operating units . |
| 44 | While this was also costly in staff time it was seen as a worthwhile investment . |
| 45 | The South-West — whose Bath-Bristol-Gloucester resources have appeared in the past to resemble rugby 's equivalent of the Bermuda Triangle — are set on improving their disappointing Divisional Championship record , and their success against Leinster in Dublin last week was seen as a first step in the right direction . |
| 46 | For the pacifists of the ILP , however , the Memorandum was seen as a first stage in the creation of a new diplomacy from below ; ‘ our own proclamations … our own diplomacy … our own international meetings ’ , as MacDonald had said at the Leeds Convention . |
| 47 | This was seen as a first step towards integrating the Soviet economy with international financial institutions , although this did not permit Soviet participation in GATT 's current multilateral Uruguay Round of trade discussions . |
| 48 | The CP acceptance of the offer was seen as a first step to its entering the CODESA process . |
| 49 | The only existing course , of 2 years ' duration , in the methodology of French teaching , was open only to those students who already had an A Level in the subject , and was seen as a holding operation . |
| 50 | The factory bench was seen as a crucial division , a ‘ watershed ’ structured by patterns of class and gender located in the wider society . |
| 51 | In what was seen as a crucial breakthrough for efforts to avert massive famine in the Horn of Africa [ see p. 37845 ] the World Food Programme announced on Dec. 18 that it had secured the definite agreement of the Ethiopian government and leaders of the Eritrean People 's Liberation Front ( EPLF ) guerillas to open the Red Sea port of Massawa , closed to shipping since its capture by the EPLF in February . |
| 52 | Calling itself La Rete ( the Network ) , the movement focused on what was seen as a crucial nationwide fight against the Mafia and organized crime . |
| 53 | The contest was seen as a crucial test of the LDP 's continuing ability to hold office . |
| 54 | The compulsory retirement of active , healthy elderly people who were willing to continue working was seen as a contributory factor to the high rate of suicide among the aged ( WHO 1959 ; Logan 1953 ) which peaked at age 70 ; deferred retirement was advocated as a preventive measure ( Batchelor and Napier 1953 ) . |
| 55 | Both Mr. Bennet and Elizabeth accept that Mr. Wickham would only have agreed to marry for £10,000 which was seen as a vast amount of money in those days . |
| 56 | Commitment to a particular ideology was seen as a rational choice originating in the individual 's assessment of the situation … |
| 57 | The commemoration of the dead in the First World War was seen as a triumphalist commemoration of those who died for Britain . |
| 58 | Gen. Emile Lahud , C.-in-C. of the Lebanese Army , announced on March 30 the opening of the port road between West and East Beirut , in what was seen as a conciliatory gesture towards the Maronite Christians supporting President Hrawi . |
| 59 | This positive curvature of space-time , which reflects the fact that gravity is attractive , was seen as a great problem by Einstein . |
| 60 | He was also a man who got on well with almost all his associates , and his early death in 1854 was seen as a great blow to natural history . |