Example sentences of "[vb mod] not [be] seen [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ However , the law must not be seen to be an ass . |
| 2 | There 's a littleness about it all : again it must not be seen as mere chance that we encounter Swift 's Lilliput on the first page of the novel . |
| 3 | The American writer Leslie Farber has a great deal to say about ‘ the life of suicide ’ , which he insists , ‘ must not be seen as the situation or state of mind which leads to the act , but that situation in which the act-as-possibility , quite apart from whether it eventually occurs or not , has a life of its own . ’ |
| 4 | The Chairman of the Chambre Nationale , Yannick Guilloux , said the charges brought against Britain must not be seen as the stand of one European country against another but a bid to harmonise tax regulation , at as low a rate as possible , in order to protect the art market within the EC as a whole . |
| 5 | If people do n't like the message they can discuss it , but the report must not be seen as a whitewash . |
| 6 | The king must not be seen without his clothes . |
| 7 | Seeing the primal figure is dangerous ; tribesmen avoid the sight of their chief , and God can not and must not be seen by mortals . |
| 8 | This should not be seen as a deterrent . |
| 9 | However , perhaps this increase should not be seen as the emergence of local politics , but should more properly be viewed as their re-emergence . |
| 10 | Bertram argues that game theory and kin selection should not be seen as alternative explanations ( Nature , vol 302 , p 356 ) . |
| 11 | But this should not be seen as a criticism ; the role and scope of audit is somewhat narrowly defined in law , and any change is almost bound to have legal ramifications . |
| 12 | Instead , this increasingly popular element of dominant ideology should not be seen as an expression of social concern for the well-being of older people , but examined for its wider social purpose . |
| 13 | This should not be seen as an attack on a balding old Pole but on the institution he leads — ie the hierarchy of the Catholic Church , whose attitudes towards gays , women and other oppressed groups belong in the dustbin of history as do those of most religious hierarchies . |
| 14 | This can also be shown to be true in BSL , indicating that surface features of languages may be used in different ways to express conceptual material but that these differences should not be seen as deficits . |
| 15 | These phases of group problem-solving should not be seen as a model to follow but as an analysis of what tends to happen . |
| 16 | On the other hand , remedial discretion should not be seen as a substitute for defining the grounds of judicial review more carefully and narrowly . |
| 17 | She argues that autonomy should not be seen as a psychological capacity , but as a social one , depending on public acknowledgement , and that this acknowledgement arises from the recognition of responsibility rather than of rationality . |
| 18 | All this suggests that the institutions of more stable family patterns should not be seen as evidence of the success of an effort at ‘ social control ’ . |
| 19 | The fact that no powerfully theoretical recreation geography has emerged , however , should not be seen as a defeat for the subject , for the empirical work that has been produced has not only been very useful in its own right , but has also shown a significant mismatch between leisure aspirations and recreational resources . |
| 20 | The extensive consultation which takes place between central government and these associations should not be seen as a generous concession by government but as ‘ the inevitable response in a situation where the centre lacks detailed control . |
| 21 | Pest control and hygiene should not be seen as separate operations ; rather , they should be combined as essential components of good hygiene practice . |
| 22 | Privatization should not be seen as the signal for the government to withdrawn from the economy entirely . |
| 23 | The Group felt that the VG statement was too sweeping , and that the change in the balance between floristic and monographic research should not be seen as downgrading floristics . |
| 24 | Elephants should not be seen as a mere single species in conservation terms . |
| 25 | The Iranian , Syrian and Turkish governments were also reported to be concerned that the elections in Iraqi Kurdistan should not be seen as a first move towards the creation of an independent Kurdish state . |
| 26 | Data analysis is an iterative process : the final model will not be obtained until after a number of tries and this should not be seen as slowness , but care for accuracy . |
| 27 | Again , it is a starting point for negotiations and should not be seen as a definitive version . |
| 28 | A judge should not be seen as a witness who held himself capable of comparing handwriting and reached conclusions of the comparisons . |
| 29 | Mr Morrison was adamant that the envoy idea was an act of friendship and should not be seen as a ‘ hostile act ’ . |
| 30 | Four thought Christianity should not be seen as the prevailing ethic . |