Example sentences of "[was/were] seen [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And where they were seen or heard , to be treated and reflected as a person first — and as a black person , an Asian person , a woman or someone with a disability second or not at all . |
| 2 | Among old records there is evidence of irruptions in September 1890 , when single birds were obtained at Harting and Selsey ; October 1892 , when at least seven were seen or obtained between Eastbourne and Selsey , and August and September 1940 , when six were shot at Rye Harbour . |
| 3 | In the late 1940s and 1950s the fast reactor was held in such esteem that other forms of nuclear power generation were seen as filling in time until the FBRs were ready to go on stream . |
| 4 | Education and , to some extent , housing , were allocated only limited support , partly because they were seen as dominating mainstream local-authority expenditure . |
| 5 | They did acquit themselves well with heavier strings and a flat pick , but in the main they were seen as fingerpicking guitars . |
| 6 | Such invasions were seen as bringing about conflict , sometimes of an extremely violent nature . |
| 7 | At first , new multi-disciplinary machinery and the procedures associated with it were seen as providing social workers with the necessary change of perspective . |
| 8 | On the other , workers wanted more control , believing this would help them plan better , and court orders were seen as providing this . |
| 9 | Nevertheless the hospital beds and places to be opened in London were seen as facilitating the further development of comprehensive community services . |
| 10 | At one time both were seen as sustaining of democracy in Britain . |
| 11 | Sea-floor spreading and continental drift were seen as involving these lithospheric plates rather than just oceanic or continental crust . |
| 12 | Broadly the period 1951–87 can be divided into four parts : 1951–64 , a period of comparatively little social policy innovation which may be regarded as a time of consolidation or stagnation , according to one 's political viewpoint ; 1964–74 , a period of fairly intense policy change stimulated by both political parties , in which considerable difficulties were experienced in translating aspirations into practice ; 1974–78 , a period in which rapid inflation and government by the Labour party without a parliamentary majority administered a severe shock to the political and social system , and to all who believed that there was still a need for developments in social policy ; and 1979–87 , when much more explicitly anti-welfare state Conservative administrations reinforced that shock by deliberately treating inflation as more deserving of its attention than unemployment , attacking public services which were seen as inhibiting economic recovery and seeking ways to ‘ privatize ’ public services . |
| 13 | In September 1989 , it was reported that the Home Secretary had begun a series of private discussions with public officials including the Lord Chancellor , the Lord Chief Justice ( who had hitherto been reluctant to participate in such discussions lest they were seen as prejudicing judicial independence ) and the senior Lord Justice of Appeal . |
| 14 | Indians were seen as representing the Vietcong , nineteenth-century negro slaves spoke like members of the Black Power movement , and detailed blood-baths were presented as condemnations of violence . |
| 15 | Such personalities were seen as objectifying within the personality a particular sort of social and political ideology , which was the product of determinable social processes . |
| 16 | The contacts between the Lemass and O'Neill governments were seen as having been brought about by pressure from Britain , and as a result ‘ O'Neill has got his orders to play down discrimination ’ . |
| 17 | Women were already an issue in industrial sociology ; for example , married women with home responsibilities were seen as ‘ problems ’ for employers ( Brown et al , 1964 ) and women were seen as having difficulties accommodating their ‘ two roles ’ ( Myrdal and Klein , 1956 ; Klein , 1965 ; Komarovsky , 1962 ) . |
| 18 | Conversely , Home Office guidelines were only exceptionally ignored since ‘ They were seen as having a legitimacy stemming from the fact of representing the authoritative interpretation of the law by the elected government of the day ’ ( ibid.:211 ) . |
| 19 | They were more than the part-time special constables in the British tradition , in that they were seen as having a social role in the context of an individual 's responsibility to his or her community . |
| 20 | Finally , there was popular Catholic resistance to the implementation of the Civil Authorities ( Special Powers ) Act , and resentment at the retention of the B Specials , who were seen as drawn from , and biased towards , the Unionists . |
| 21 | The 1917 announcement and the reforms of 1919 known as the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms ( Chelmsford being the viceroy ) , which introduced the principle of ministerial responsibility into provincial government , were seen as means to this end . |
| 22 | Young black people were seen as engendering an anti-British culture that , because of its criminal overtones , inevitably lead to conflict with the forces of law and order . |
| 23 | These infringements of school rules were seen as triumphs . |
| 24 | The external signs of ageing , as at different points eyesight blurred , menstruation ceased , hair and teeth fell out , were seen as linked to signs of internal degeneration such as sclerosis which were being discovered through post-mortems . |
| 25 | Gummer 's comments were seen as highlighting the rift between the Environment and Transport Departments . |
| 26 | Hart , in criticising Devlin 's position , suggested that his conception of morality was like that of a ‘ seamless web ’ where attacks on one part were seen as threatening the life of the whole . |
| 27 | Such forms of help were seen as enabling young people , in the long term , to have control over their own lives . |
| 28 | Accordingly , first up were East Village , Heavenly 's wild card from early on , when their timeless swoonings and groomings were seen as making some case for the plurality of the dance scene from which Heavenly first hatched . |
| 29 | Some groups were not favourably received partly because they had little to offer the council but also because they were seen as making ‘ unreasonable ’ demands on the local authority — that is , demands which did not square with the councillors ' own policy predispositions . |
| 30 | The two sets of pressures on the state — to meet demands for social welfare and other expenditure tied up with the legitimacy of the political system , and to provide the conditions for capitalist accumulation — were seen as leading to a growing ‘ fiscal crisis of the state ’ ( O'Connor 1973 ) . |