Example sentences of "was seen [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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1 | The report was seen partly as a response to a document published by the UN Economic Commission for Africa ( ECA ) which had criticized the socially destructive effects of World Bank-supported SAPs [ see pp. 36991-92 ] . |
2 | But in all social discourse a stable home was seen both as a microcosm of stable society and a sanctuary from an unstable and rapidly changing one . |
3 | What I am most conscious of is that I have been regarded as a controversial figure : until the age of sixty I was seen either as a subversive or as an enfant terrible . |
4 | As a matter of fact , a clinical benefit was seen even with an occasionally decreased amplitude in external sphincter contraction when improvement in squeeze duration was achieved ( Fig 1 ) . |
5 | Once , stringing PCs together was seen primarily as a way of sharing equipment like printers . |
6 | The Bush tour produced no substantial new initiatives , and was seen primarily as a US effort to reassure the region 's governments that they were not being ignored , even though US foreign policy was currently dominated by eastern Europe and by the Gulf crisis . |
7 | Another was seen later with a breast wound . |
8 | And if the ‘ mixed economy ’ was seen only as a framework , then like the scaffolding surrounding a building , it would be dismantled when the task in hand had been completed . |
9 | The levels of IgA anti-myeloperoxidase did not differ from the control group in any of the disease states , whereas IgA anti-lactoferrin was significantly ( p<0.01 ) more common in Crohn 's disease , although it was seen only in a minority of the patient sera ( 6 of 51= 12% ) . |
10 | It was seen more as a patriotic form of national self-expression than as a pro-nazi organization and hence was not closed down in September 1939 when war was declared . |
11 | Yesterday 's blast was seen less as a direct attempt on the police chief who has most vigorously pursued Colombia 's leading cocaine exporters , but as part of a campaign to terrorise non-combatants in the drug war into supporting negotiations and amnesty . |
12 | Yesterday 's blast was seen less as a direct attempt on the man who has most vigorously pursued Colombia 's chief cocaine exporters , but as part of a campaign to terrorise non-combatants in the drug war into supporting negotiations and amnesty . |
13 | Elsewhere , decentralization was seen less as a clean break , more as a part of the natural cycle of urban growth and change ( Hall 1981 ) . |
14 | For example , a small boy was seen once by an educational psychologist at his parents ' request on a problem of which hand he should write with . |
15 | Whereas in the 1970s , modularity was seen variously as a means of overcoming artificial subject boundaries , promoting student choice and clarifying course objectives , the main rationales now are administrative rationalization and the promotion of credit transfer between courses , institutions , modes of study , and between the educational system and ‘ corporate classrooms ’ , to use Eurich 's ( 1985 ) phrase , as exemplified by the CNAA Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme . |