Example sentences of "not [be] see [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously , pollen grains are very small plant remains , and can not be seen without the aid of a microscope ; but larger remains ( macroscopic plant remains ) , such as seeds and grains , leaves , twigs , wood and charcoal also provide evidence about the vegetation that existed around a site , and can show if and how it was exploited by the people living there . |
| 2 | This should not be seen as a deterrent . |
| 3 | Every good game defines the parameters of what may or may not be seen as a legitimate action . |
| 4 | Those opposed to the ordination of women to the priesthood maintain that it can not be seen as a legitimate development because it is ‘ closely related to the central doctrines of the Christian faith ’ . |
| 5 | This will not be seen as a sign of weakness but a real sign of strength . |
| 6 | However , it can not be seen as a new problem area . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | These phases of group problem-solving should not be seen as a model to follow but as an analysis of what tends to happen . |
| 9 | The concentration of power in the hands of the managers of the largest companies could not be seen as a necessary bulwark against the power of the state . |
| 10 | On the other hand , remedial discretion should not be seen as a substitute for defining the grounds of judicial review more carefully and narrowly . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Pleasure and pain can not be seen as a lowering of tension and a heightening of tension respectively ; there can be a pleasurable heightening of tension , as in sexual activity ( a new admission compared with the position Freud took in Beyond the Pleasure Principle ) and a painful lowering of tensions . |
| 13 | In England , obtaining extracts of public records would not be seen as a judicial act , and the phrase ‘ other judicial acts ’ seems to remain a source of puzzlement . |
| 14 | Domestic life can not be seen as a balanced and equal relationship between men and women . |
| 15 | According to this version , the turn towards services — the shift in the balance of employment from manufacturing to services — is the direction in which all the major industrial economies are moving and in itself need not be seen as a problem . |
| 16 | Second , just as the onset of disability can not be seen as a one-off life event , neither can the intervening impact of ageing be considered as a self-contained life event , or even a series of discrete life events . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Punctuation should clarify and organise the essay , not be seen as a hindrance or unnecessary . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Elephants should not be seen as a mere single species in conservation terms . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | If people do n't like the message they can discuss it , but the report must not be seen as a whitewash . |
| 23 | There is no duty upon the Commissioner to have regard to these vague considerations which should therefore not be seen as a potential fetter on the Commissioner 's discretion . |
| 24 | And this need not be seen as a particularly innovative piece of verbal transvestism on the part of the Shipman . |
| 25 | Again , it is a starting point for negotiations and should not be seen as a definitive version . |
| 26 | A judge should not be seen as a witness who held himself capable of comparing handwriting and reached conclusions of the comparisons . |
| 27 | Mr Morrison was adamant that the envoy idea was an act of friendship and should not be seen as a ‘ hostile act ’ . |
| 28 | Just to finish up colleagues this should not be seen as a willingness for local authority workers to give up their jobs , but it needs to be sorted so that our brothers and sisters who are forced into redundancy receive fair recompense for their loss . |
| 29 | However , perhaps this increase should not be seen as the emergence of local politics , but should more properly be viewed as their re-emergence . |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |