Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 31 | Rather , it treats them as ‘ given ’ , in the sense that it is seen as neither plausible nor fruitful to attempt a causal explanation of them . |
| 32 | Rather , it is seen as something having gone wrong : corruption by the ‘ commercial entrepreneurs of youth fashion ’ and ‘ social disorganisation ’ makes them ‘ vulnerable ’ to right-wing populism and racism ( ibid. , pp. 171–2 ) . |
| 33 | It is seen as crucial that all parties interested in broadcasting on the public channel should work together and seize the opportunity to make public television in Australia a reality . |
| 34 | It is seen as vital that a climate of tolerance is fostered in the School . |
| 35 | It is seen as ‘ always reactive , reactionary ’ . |
| 36 | It is seen as extending horizons , the means for communicating between generations the accumulated wisdom of a culture , offering opportunities to engage in more abstract context-independent learning . |
| 37 | Although this is designed for individual use , its flexibility and generality are such that it is seen as worth describing here . |
| 38 | The difference , however , between The Philosophy of Money and most of the later works is that in the early book the rupture created through the rise of money is seen to be inseparable as a historical moment from its positive aspects ; that is , it is seen as representing freedom and potential equality . |
| 39 | An anomaly will be regarded as particularly serious if it is seen as striking at the very fundamentals of a paradigm and yet persistently resists attempts by the members of the normal scientific community to remove it . |
| 40 | It is seen as being a vital component in the effort to regenerate the rural economy in North Wales . |
| 41 | They have to do this because it is seen as impossible to have both low inflation and a high level of employment since the former requires a low level of demand whereas the latter requires a high level of demand to keep people in jobs making things for sale . |
| 42 | Technology even enters into our gender identity , it is seen as manly ( not feminine ) to be technically-oriented . |
| 43 | It is seen as pulled not only by the reserves of cheap ex-agricultural labour in Third World countries but by the ready availability of large amounts of unskilled , young , frequently female labour for unskilled tasks . |
| 44 | As with the rest of Whitbread it is seen as natural for people to want top develop their careers within TGI Friday 's and they are encouraged to do so . |
| 45 | The new is made comfortable by being made familiar since it is seen as having evolved from the forms of the past . ’ |
| 46 | In doing so , it is seen as pre-empting a likely decision by the Bank itself , which had suspended the granting of the final $170 million of its $450 million funding package pending further examination of the Dam 's environmental and human impact , following a critical report last year [ ibid ] . |
| 47 | It is seen as significant , however , that there is not a greater correlation between the two measurements . |
| 48 | It is seen as very helpful in some areas but entirely unsuitable in others . |
| 49 | In 1405/6 it is given as Forsshey , in 1408/9 as Forshay ( the same spelling as Reaney gives for John fl . |
| 50 | This will be the reason for the oddity of ( 54 ) where one such basic property is related to its noun through assignment , by contrast with the normality of ( 55 ) where it is given as one of the initial identifying properties of the subject entity ( there is obviously no difference of truth-value between the two ) : ( 54 ) ? a ladle which was heavy came down on his skull ( 55 ) a heavy ladle came down on his skull Thus , other things being equal we expect properties of such basic sorts to be used predominantly for identification by ordinary qualification . |
| 51 | It is organized as follows : first the initial identification of variables is discussed , with attention to their embedding in linguistic structure ( 6.2 ) ; second , some problems ( and proposed solutions ) are explored , which arise from attempts to analyse data using the concept of the variable as it was originally developed ( 6.3–6.6 ) ; third , some difficulties in establishing lexical input to phonological variables ( 6.7 ) are described . |
| 52 | In the enterprise of seeking to understand consciousness as something more manageable and decently scientific than what it calls ghostly stuff , it is understood as yet less than ghostly stuff . |
| 53 | Once the carbohydrate has been consumed it is stored as glycogen in the muscles and stays there until it is required for energy . |
| 54 | The institutional church , preoccupied with orthodoxy and fundamentally opposed to Marxism because it is viewed as materialistic and atheistic , is made up of bishops , priests , laity and religious movements who , though not very numerous , are powerful , partly because the laity of the group belong to the wealthier classes . |
| 55 | These groups represent a minority opinion , she suggests , and it is up to the NVALA and groups like it to defend and reassert ‘ traditional ’ values before humanism takes a grip of society generally , rather than just at the BBC where it is viewed as already having a stranglehold . |
| 56 | An extremely useful model of the meaning of a word , which can be extracted from the contextual relations , is one in which it is viewed as being made up , at least in part , of the meanings of other words . |
| 57 | The Conservatives would continue to commercialise and privatise the NHS until it is run as just another business . |
| 58 | For example , a breaking wave has a form which is not random , because it is repeated as each successive wave breaks , but the shape is in no sense deducible from the shape of a water molecule : if the sea was made of alcohol , the waves would be much the same shape . |
| 59 | When this care of old people is short-lived , the inevitable prelude to death , it is accepted as natural . |
| 60 | It has important implications for sociology , if it is accepted as in any sense true . |