Example sentences of "it can [be] regard " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may be able to claim constructive dismissal even if the incident which directly leads to your departure is minor , if it can be regarded as the last straw . |
| 2 | It can be regarded as a principle apart from morality on which morality can be based since it provides a reason why it might be worthwhile for a man to act morally . |
| 3 | It can be regarded as private ownership at least as readily as it can public ownership . |
| 4 | To a large extent , this implicit phonology is determined by choices of words and structures at the syntactic level , where it can be regarded as an important ingredient of stylistic value ( see 7.6 ) . |
| 5 | If it 's a big discharge which is perhaps on a Royal Commission standard and it is consistently turning out say a 30 BOD and a 40 solids then it can be regarded as harmful and one would press for improvement to be carried out . … |
| 6 | This is tantamount to saying that before it can be regarded as an adequate replacement for a falsified theory , a newly and boldly proposed theory must make some novel predictions that are confirmed . |
| 7 | Indeed for any particular finite value set it will be possible to give a complete finitary rule based on the fact that , since any program only contains finitely many variables , it can be regarded as a finite state machine ( with a huge umber of states ) . |
| 8 | In the present study , the thesis has been treated as a quasi-formal entity , which possesses enough attributes of the formal to enable comparisons to be drawn with fully formal conventional publications , such as journal articles , but which also possesses some elements of informal , personal communication , in that it can be regarded as the fulfilment of a one-to-one contract between the researcher and the university . |
| 9 | He exhibits a number of adjectives which differ in precisely the way required while maintaining the same or essentially the same lexical value ( we modify his examples slightly where it is possible to do so without damage to his case , so as to make the distinction sharper ) : ( 19 ) visible stars vs stars visible the only navigable rivers vs the only rivers navigable a handy tool vs are your tools handy ? guilty people vs people guilty As it happens , the examples which Bolinger uses employ words which can make the distinction a rather subtle one , with perhaps the exception of visible stars ( a group recognized astronomically ) beside stars visible ; but it is quite easy to produce further instances which seem to confirm his view : ( 20 ) a complaining visitor vs a visitor complaining the eligible bachelor vs the bachelor eligible In other cases , the divergence of lexical value between the two positions may be greater but still with the characteristic value for the former , and the occasion value for the latter : ( 21 ) the responsible man vs the man responsible a sorry sight vs the girl is sorry He notes that the acceptability of an adjective in pre-adjunct position may apparently depend on whether or not it can be regarded as indicating a relatively enduring characteristic of what is expressed by the noun , as in : ( 22 ) the faint girl vs the girl is faint an asleep man vs a man asleep This possibility of course depends not only on the adjective itself but also on the nature of the noun being qualified , so that " when one scratches one 's head the result is not *a scratched head but when one scores a glass surface the result is a scratched surface " . |
| 10 | Mechanistically it can be regarded as the movement of a kink in the chain along its length ( see figure 12.5 ) until this reaches the end of the chain and leaves it . |
| 11 | Similarly an obligation of confidence may not be prayed in aid of a refusal to disclose secret information to a trustee in bankruptcy if it can be regarded as part of the bankrupt 's property ( see Keene , Re [ 1922 ] 2 Ch 475 ) . |
| 12 | The restrictive covenant cases demonstrate that a covenant will not be upheld on the basis of the status of the information which might be disclosed by a former employee if he is not restrained , unless it can be regarded as a business secret or the equivalent of a business secret . |
| 13 | It can be regarded as the culmination of a great German tradition of piano concertos , which had started with Mozart . |