Example sentences of "may [be] see [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If Heidrick and Struggles may be identified as the most individualistic and entrepreneurial search firm , Spencer Stuart as the most discreet and quietly professional — in this sense closely related to Egon Zehnder — and Korn/Ferry as the most aggressive , then Russell Reynolds may be seen as the most elite , preppie and , according to Byrne , even arrogant , of headhunting firms . |
| 32 | They adamantly believed that ‘ at that time it was not done to ‘ ’ poach' ’ settled executives in any direct or overt way' ; but they may be seen as the precursors of headhunting in Britain , in so far as they acted as consultants in executive selection and advertising , within a general management consultancy practice . |
| 33 | But the first real headhunting boom began in the late 1970s and early 1980s , when the recession really began to bite ; executive search may be seen as one of the few industries which grew in this period . |
| 34 | In this way , the stylized clay objects may be seen as early forerunners of the more recognizable goddess-idols of the Late Minoan period . |
| 35 | Their appeals to the morality and mystery of their work in an attempt to establish a charismatic authority may be seen as a defence of their status since , as Paterson 's discussion of judges reminds us , there are social strata above the professions . |
| 36 | Such services may be seen as diminishing personal control and choice . |
| 37 | In the prevailing exclusionist literature , which is controlled by the professionally intelligent , the attitude that what professionals define as ‘ intelligence ’ does not matter , and that their child 's humanity does , may be seen as a symptom of pathology as severe as ( and similar to ) a child 's intellectual disabilities . |
| 38 | For example , the home situation may be seen as the single most important factor ‘ causing ’ the child 's behaviour problems . |
| 39 | Rather than being seen as partners in the search for a solution parents may be seen as part of the problem ( Moses and Croll 1987 , Wood 1988 ) . |
| 40 | Thus , reviewing the Zande material in the light of our widening experience , we can again detect what may be seen as a main morality religion ( the ancestor cult ) co-existing with a subsidiary , or ancillary , marginal witchcraft cult . |
| 41 | This pragmatic shift in philosophy may be seen as part of a broader ‘ revolt against formalism ’ in the USA . |
| 42 | This paper may be seen as an attempt to achieve the seemingly impossible in posing the question of why the Romano-Britons purchased vessels of local manufacture decorated with religious and other images in the third century . |
| 43 | This review may be seen as a follow up to the report by the Audit Commission ( 1986 ) and concern about the spiralling cost of social security payments to those in private residential/nursing home care noted above . |
| 44 | They may be seen as evidence of the insidious creep of sport climbing ethics into the mountains , but used sparingly they eliminate an unwanted and unnecessary risk and cause less visual intrusion . |
| 45 | To a certain extent , this process may be seen as part of the more established technology known as OCR ( Optical Character Recognition ) , but OCR has traditionally been associated exclusively with machine printed text rather than handwriting . |
| 46 | Prototype theory sees entries in the mental dictionary as being centred on a representation of the prototypical member of the class to which the word belongs ; e.g. a robin may be seen as the prototypical bird . |
| 47 | Word sense disambiguation may be seen as a knowledge-intensive problem . |
| 48 | This technique may be seen as an extension of the basic co-occurrence methods , as it includes the concept of matching using a group of semantic relatives ( rather than just the word itself ) and also matches according to specific syntactic relations . |
| 49 | This technique may be seen as an extension of the established corpus-based parsing techniques to include a limited coverage of semantic features . |
| 50 | An interesting type of instruction is the search or scan instruction , which may be seen as an iterated compare . |
| 51 | What is a development for one may be seen as a decline , a retrograde step , or sheer decadence by the other . |
| 52 | Perhaps we are more on our guard against the possibility of over-attachment by or to the adolescent or prepubertal child — or what may be seen as over-attachment . |
| 53 | We have noticed that Lawrence uses few pronouns , and to some extent the definite article may be seen as an alternative device of cross-reference , less ambiguous , because it is accompanied by a noun identifying a previous reference . |
| 54 | Thus , the combination of the anti-Zionist conspiracy theory with pro-Palestinian rhetoric and an absence of crude , anti-black rhetoric may be seen as a tactic designed to qualify for Libyan funds . |
| 55 | Thus , the degree of fit between phonological choice and network structure may be seen as an issue quite separate from the absolute level of use of a particular range of variants . |
| 56 | First , the ‘ working class ’ in Britain may be seen as a subset of the economically defined working class ( i.e. wage and salary earning employees separated from the means of production ) , although it probably also includes sections of the petty bourgeoisie ( in the strict sense of small-scale producers and traders employing their own means of production and labour power ) who regard themselves as ‘ working for a living ’ . |
| 57 | For example , a means of producing food and shelter may be seen as a functional prerequisite since without them members of society could not survive . |
| 58 | After discussing various loopholes in the law of theft the committee proceeded in what may be seen as a key paragraph . |
| 59 | Music 's place in our services may be seen as a gift of God which he uses to reveal something of himself to us . |
| 60 | This problem may be seen as the converse of the one discussed at the beginning of this section — defining a complete set of alternants for a variable — and is best demonstrated by example . |