Example sentences of "[noun sg] can [be] viewed as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Answer guide : The answers should show that the student understands that liabilities are amounts owed by the business to third parties whereas the owners ' equity can be viewed as an amount the business owes to the owners . |
| 2 | The coincidental publication of the Guidance notes on the Code of Professional Conduct during a major test of professional practice can be viewed as a piece of misfortune or as a superb opportunity to affirm the stature of the profession by using the Code to support the Library Association 's case . |
| 3 | Although there would undoubtedly have been job losses after the merger , the proposal can be viewed as a relatively straightforward attempt to restructure and then rationalise an industry with excess capacity , with firms which were insufficiently large to exploit economies of scale and thus unable to make a profit . |
| 4 | The campaign can be viewed as part of the pattern in contemporary Chinese politics suggested earlier : it was the inevitable backlash against a certain degree of liberalisation . |
| 5 | That is especially so when the actor in question can be viewed as a contender for the title of number one in a profession well populated with aggressively chauvinistic egocentrics . |
| 6 | The Gulf war can be viewed as an attempt to reverse the irreversible . |
| 7 | Similarly , abandonment can be viewed as a shift or a decline in population . |
| 8 | This offers an additional dimension to biogeography ( Simmons , 1979a ) and because it is infinitely renewable but subject to substantial modification by man , the NPP of an area can be viewed as what Eyre ( 1978 ) characterized as ‘ the real wealth of nations ’ . |
| 9 | An exhibition can be viewed as a means of getting noticed and attracting publicity and contracts : as a rare chance of seeing a good deal of your recent work together and thus creating an opportunity for self-evaluation and an assessment of the way your work is developing ; and , by no means least , as a way of selling work . |
| 10 | The functionalist style can be viewed as an attempt to develop a legal style compatible with the technically orientated , interdependent , and functionally ordered society which was emerging . |
| 11 | Just as laboratory bacteria are artefacts of the culture media , so the bacterial world can be viewed as an artefact of the rest of the biosphere . |
| 12 | They stated that their model can be viewed as an amplification of Clark ( 1973 ) . |
| 13 | The model can be viewed as a set of linked industry models . |
| 14 | While the new book can be viewed as a hypertext because it has a semantic net to which paragraphs are attached , print on paper remains the dominant medium for the delivery of books , and Hypertext has also been generated in paper , linear form . |
| 15 | One theory suggests that personality can be viewed as a series of concentric rings . |
| 16 | Thus the statement that That 's a dog entails That 's an animal can be viewed as a kind of shorthand for a pattern of normality like the following : |
| 17 | The fluorite structure can be viewed as a face-centred cubic arrangement of cations within which the anions are arranged tetrahedrally . |
| 18 | But , as Alison Lurie observed in the Language of Clothes ( Bloomsbury , £11.99 ) , ‘ The entire history of female fashion in this century can be viewed as a series of more or less successful campaigns to force , flatter or bribe women back into uncomfortable or awkward styles in order to handicap them in professional competition with men . ’ |
| 19 | The interpretative can be viewed as the broadest perception , into which the adaptive and linear models can be fitted . |
| 20 | Seen from this perspective , a customer base can be viewed as a population most of whose members are in a stable state of financial service equilibrium , with a set of financial accounts adequately matching their needs . |
| 21 | This component can be viewed as the means of authenticating the data . |
| 22 | Organisations involved in the creation and adoption of new technology can be viewed as part of a market and technical network and the research |
| 23 | Anyone who has ever played with a gyroscope will know that the object displays a distinct aversion to being turned upside-down ; in many ways the spinning Earth can be viewed as a sort of super-heavy gyroscope . |
| 24 | Insider dealing can be viewed as a tax on dealing in equities ( King and Roell 1988 ) . |