It became seen as the public face of the women's movement, but it was a magazine.
The act of shopping, once a straightforward financial transaction, was reinvented: it became seen as a delightful, diverting and even therapeutic experience in itself.
Suddenly, it became seen as a "safe haven" forpeople's savings, and while others pulled out of mortgage lending, Abbey sharply increased its share of the market.
Scores of big corporations have lost their AAA status in recent years — only four non-financial companies continue to hold the rating — as it became seen in board rooms as more of a straitjacket than a path to riches.
Remain in Light, and the shows that a hugely expanded Talking Heads played to support it, became seen as a defining moment for music in the early 80s, and its legacy still holds strong.
It became seen as one of a number of popular customs that the social elite believed it their duty to abolish, and women protested that it represented "a threat and insult to their sex".
Until the English Civil War the Chancellor of the Exchequer was a judicial office with little political standing; after the War, however, it became seen as a "stepping stone" to higher political appointments.
If something tries to distract you, it becomes see-through, inconsequential.
Anti-armed forces stuff actually gets said a lot, but because it's in a public space like Facebook, which is somewhere between publishing and everyday social space it becomes seen as sending a message to the world". .
The more a word is used, the more it crumbles and fades - the harder it becomes to see.
