Example sentences of "[been] see [prep] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Proceedings initiated by Finland in July 1991 at the International Court of Justice were formally discontinued on Sept. 10 , removing what had been seen as an irritant in Nordic co-operation . |
| 2 | Whereas rejection of Soviet dominance had been seen as an element in the poor support for communists and ex-communists elsewhere , the Economist of June 16 suggested that Bulgarians were comparatively well disposed to Russians , regarding them historically as " Slav brothers who freed Bulgaria from the Turks in 1878 " . |
| 3 | But also in another sense , conservation has frequently been seen as an imposition , so much so that many local people rioted , formed armed resistance and used the issue as a nucleus for organising wide-ranging political dissent in eastern Africa against the British colonial administration ( Young and Fosbrooke 1960 ; Cliffe 1964 ) . |
| 4 | This has rightly been seen as an impetus towards the fusion of legacy and trust . |
| 5 | I think it is erm Greater York that has been seen as an area with special problems because of its er historic character , erm which we spent many hours debating at the York greenbelt local plan inquiry , and I think most participants there accepted that the er what was being protected was not just the historic core , but also the setting of York and its surrounding ring of villages , and the way which it is proposed to protect that setting and character is by a greenbelt , now it follows that if you are imposing extremely severe restrictions on new development in an area around a settlement , then you have to meet the legitimate development needs for that settlement in another location , the further away that new settlement or other policy response is located it seems to me the less likely it is to meet the er needs of that settlement , and that will give rise to erm , you know , additional pressures on the settlement you are proposing to protect and maybe those pressures could not be resisted , and I think that 's why there is this requirement that erm the development which might otherwise be built on the edge of York , but which is not proposed to be so built because of the greenbelt needs to be located close , as close to York as is consistent with the original environmental objectives greenbelt objectives for the greenbelt . |
| 6 | What has been seen as an aspect of the Roman catholic intellectual opposition to divorce in Chapter 5 can also be recognized as a feature of the defence of catholic schools too : the opposition contains an interpretation of the moral nature of contemporary society and of what happens to catholics who are not to some degree protected from it . |
| 7 | Traditionally this change has been seen as an aspect of progress , fuelled by humanitarian ideals . |
| 8 | Also to early Christians the story may have been seen as an anticipation of the Last Supper . |
| 9 | But this goes against all trade union traditions : invoking laws and the courts has been seen as an infringement of worker 's freedom of action and power of collective bargaining . |
| 10 | In the British context of the 1980s the political project that has come to be identified as ‘ Thatcherism ’ has commonly been seen as an attempt to legitimate both the reintegration of a restructured British economy into the global economy and the revision of the relationship between the state and civil society that the preferred version of restructuring required . |
| 11 | More recently he had been seen as an impediment to the resolution of the continuing ethnically based dispute with Senegal , in the course of which at least 40,000 black Mauritanian nationals had been forcibly expelled by the Mauritanian authorities [ see pp. 36579-80 ; 36840 ] . |
| 12 | Freud has been seen as an inheritor of the Hobbesian problem of order . |