Example sentences of "[pron] can be [vb pp] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is left , it is claimed , will be self-evident truths which can be accepted as such by all open minds . |
| 2 | On the other hand it does not provide remedies for production problems which can be applied as standard recipes or procedures . |
| 3 | This is a division problem which can be written as 30 ÷ 1 ½ . |
| 4 | She perceives the symbolism underlying stories from a mythology which can be regarded as patriarchal propaganda and she deconstructs established meanings to effect a shift in emphasis . |
| 5 | The topic of dynamics is based on the concept that forces create movements which can be described as spatial changes within an all-controlling time domain . |
| 6 | There is little in the Outer Hebrides at the present time which can be described as natural woodland . |
| 7 | These take the curriculum and re-present it in ‘ bite-sized pieces ’ , usually in courses of between 20 and 30 hours , which may be put together for an award like GCSE or which can be taken as free-standing units . |
| 8 | Although the ordering algorithms were developed for hybridisation mapping projects , the software can be used with other types of data which can be interpreted as hybridisation-like events . |
| 9 | One of the advantages of EDLIB is that it acts as a Computerized catalogue as well as an issue system , The catalogue system creates files in which each book or audiovisual item is allocated a record , which contains accession number , title , author , Dewey number , price , subject and one spare field , which can be used as another subject field . |
| 10 | Both titles will have the artwork on the dust jacket repeated on the cover , so that they can be treated as ordinary paperbacks as preferred . |
| 11 | Either we may see them as qualifying the properties inherent in the nouns , or we may take the view that lawfulness and distance serve to mark out certain generally recognized subcategories of heirs and cousins ( whereas one can scarcely argue for any generally accepted subcategories of strangers and kids marked out by totality and mereness ) , so that they can be treated as ordinary ascriptive adjectives . |
| 12 | People understand their own and other people 's lives not just in terms of class fractions or units of labour power even if they can be categorised as such . |
| 13 | If arranged along a low wire or rail like a single espalier , they can be trained as long dwarf hedges around borders and vegetable beds . |
| 14 | They can be seen as large-scale social variants of Piaget 's psychological processes of assimilation and accommodation ( see , for example , Piaget 1955 ) . |
| 15 | Although these are not paraphrases , they can be regarded as stylistic variants in a more liberal sense : as alternative conceptualizations , or ways of " making sense " of the same event . |
| 16 | There is disagreement , however , whether or not they can be interpreted as lateral time equivalents of one another . |
| 17 | They do not in themselves betoken infection , although they can be taken as indirect evidence of infection in many cases . |
| 18 | This partly reflects the fact that strikes are a dramatic form of conflict ( or at least they can be portrayed as dramatic events ) , and partly it reflects the fact that public opinion in Britain is firmly fixed upon strikes . |
| 19 | Describing natural phenomena under separate headings always has the unwelcome implication that they can be considered as separate entities , each in its own water-tight compartment . |
| 20 | Some problems in the Marxist theory of history , and various new interpretations of it which allow a greater autonomy to political changes for example , the emergence of the absolutist state — were discussed earlier ; and in the present context I would like to focus attention upon two more recent phenomena , and to ask whether or not they can be considered as major changes of political regime . |
| 21 | It is no surprise to discover its presence , since it must surely belong to a very early stage in the mental development of the human species ; indeed insofar as it represents one aspect of the principle of treating like as like , it can be seen as common perceptual property for all sentient organisms . |
| 22 | It can be regarded as private ownership at least as readily as it can public ownership . |
| 23 | Obviously in many cases the car is a ‘ family car ’ and as long as it is generally used for the benefit of the disabled person it can be treated as any normal family car . |
| 24 | If an insolvency practitioner is appointed as interim receiver , he must give security and if he fails to do so and keep it up , then he can be discharged as interim receiver ( rr 6.54 and 6.55 ) . |
| 25 | The development of an approach stating that the functionality of an item can be mapped on the geometric domain , leads naturally to the inverse argument that the domains themselves can be seen as logical spaces . |