Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] be [adv] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Working class marriages may perhaps be best considered as economic and emotional support systems . |
| 2 | What all this amounts to is a proviso that research based on samples of five hundred , a thousand , or more individuals should not be uncritically accepted as ‘ good ’ research while surveys using small samples , say a hundred or less , are dismissed as invalid . |
| 3 | However , this concern may not be wholly justified as he has been an active member of the CNAA and is known to be a keen supporter of public sector provision and an advocate of breaking down the barriers between the two sectors of higher education . |
| 4 | While he did not dispute that in many cases money had been levied that was twice what was necessary for satisfactory repair , and even then that the work carried out had been slovenly or even not done at all , the great laissez-faire economist had been convinced by the turnpikes that so far as public works " for facilitating commerce in general " were concerned , " the greater part may easily be so managed as to afford a particular revenue sufficient for defraying their own expense , without bringing any burden upon the general revenue of society " . |
| 5 | In cartoon form they can very often clarify points , focusing upon topics that might otherwise be hurriedly overlooked as being too difficult to comprehend . |
| 6 | A report on a pupil from within his own school will never be generally regarded as adequate , however conscientiously compiled . |
| 7 | Concepts , on the other hand , can not be meaningfully described as " temporal " in this sense . |
| 8 | As we discussed earlier and argue later , this ‘ ideology ’ has deep biological and emotional reverberations and can not be easily dismissed as generated by propaganda or clever oratory . |
| 9 | What the data show is that the issue of sign universality can not be easily described as confirmed or disproved . |
| 10 | An item can not be significantly posited as existing in any ontological sense , without at the same time , out of every pair of contradictory predicates , one , and only one such predicate can be correctly ascribed to it . |
| 11 | b , Transactivation by VP16-Myc N and Max103-VP16 together with Max or Myc N. VP16-Myc N and Max103-VP16 activities can not be directly compared as their relative expression levels are unknown and VP16-Myc N+Max is antagonized by Max+Max in cells ( see text ) . |
| 12 | Hard hitting criticism and savage satire can generally be successfully defended as honest comment , so long as the exaggerations are not so extreme as to indicate malice . |