Example sentences of "[adj] could be seen [prep] " in BNC.

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1 This could be seen as a sign of healthy growth and change ; yet the new fittings and equipment installed are usually totally insensitive to the design quality of the original .
2 This could be seen as a special kind of ‘ robustness ’ .
3 It was clear that things had improved considerably in recent weeks and that this could be seen as a consequence of her having taken the tablets .
4 This could be seen as indoctrination and not education .
5 Richards recognises that , saying : ‘ This could be seen as an unsettling tactic and I 've asked Trevor Francis to take David Hirst on one side and put him fully in the picture .
6 If they then still chose to seek engineering jobs , this could be seen as evidence of commitment .
7 This could be seen as an approximation to a Ramsey-optimal price structure , though the analogy is probably rather forced .
8 This could be seen as an example , from the other side , of the dangers of seeking to impose legal and compulsory arbitration over industrial relations .
9 Since then about ten new sites have been scheduled each week , and this could be seen as a deliberate blocking measure as it only takes place where the owner wants to do something with the site .
10 This could be seen as evidence that there is a level of automatic syntactic processing which is not always used in sentence comprehension .
11 Although this could be seen as evidence that subjective risk was not present for this subject , it could equally be regarded as a self presentational bias on the part of the subject who may have felt that feeling risk would imply dangerous driving .
12 Such a test has not been routinely available in our Department and this could be seen as a shortcoming in the service that has been offered , as well as a limitation to the scope of this study .
13 English , on the other hand , has to be able to distinguish dental from labiodental and alveolar places of articulation for to be distinct from and and for to be distinct from and ; this requires an additional feature that most languages do not need , and this could be seen as specific task for the learner of English .
14 This could be seen in standards of literacy and taste .
15 An echo of this could be seen in the fascination expressed by many middle-class men with the physical features of working-class women and in the concurrent attempts at sexual colonisation embodied in prostitution of working-class girls .
16 Some could be seen in lay-bys , others turned up in Shropshire and Wales .
17 Indeed , if they did appear to be hesitant because of the mixedness in the message , that could be seen as a weakness .
18 That could be seen as a minor complaint when the Forestry Commission 's marketing efforts in the past 20 years have attracted investment of more than £1 billion in wood processing .
19 Three screens showed views of the slim man 's shelter of rocks , but all that could be seen of the target were the streams of laser fire that issued from his blaster .
20 All that could be seen of Daak was his chainsword , silent now and held aloft as Daak disappeared through the hole he had cut in the floor .
21 There still remain three sites , all north-west of the Fosse Way — Alcester , Droitwich and Worcester , and these could be seen as part of the fortified road network round the rich agricultural lands of the Lower Avon .
22 Similarly , the good and great could be seen as noble types appearing before their time .
23 The contradiction between the two could be seen in the nationalist movements which paved the way for independence , in which there was a constant tension between the attempt to build a genuine nationalist movement and the tendency for support to be delivered on a tribal basis .
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