Example sentences of "[that] they can be [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | One of the consequences of holding instructions in store locations is that they can be treated as data , and manipulated as such by the computer . |
| 3 | Science , as it has developed right across the board since the end of the sixteenth century , has operated with the axiomatic assumption that events in the material world , out there , external to human minds , are governed by regularities which are so coherent and consistent that they can be treated as " natural laws " . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The difference between these sentences and [ 5 ] and [ 6 ] is that they can be interpreted as descriptions of the event portrayed in [ 3 ] . |