Example sentences of "not be dismiss as " in BNC.

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1 The contrast is striking , and can not be dismissed as irrelevant to the social and other problems that we confront in the last decade of our century .
2 The importance of his distancing from earlier critical theory becomes clear ; ‘ science ’ as a form of epistemology can not be dismissed as ideology but a tendency to ‘ scientism ’ can be treated as obscuring knowledge-constitutive interests and as potentially ideological .
3 This must not be dismissed as mere metaphor since it could also be true of the reader , for whom a health check might reveal their having suffered from a range of complaints in blissful ignorance .
4 Although the research was mainly qualitative , the views can not be dismissed as merely those of a ‘ more able ’ or of an ‘ indoctrinated ’ minority .
5 The strength or his argument is such that it can not be dismissed as merely a distortion of the formula by which ‘ capitalism , is understood as the guarantor of ‘ bourgeois freedom ’ .
6 Compulsion can not be dismissed as incapable of bringing about change , after all we compel children to attend school between the ages of five and sixteen and it would be foolish to suggest that no genuine change takes place as a result .
7 I am not arguing that there are no uses for a conceptual demarcation of classes quite distinct from the demarcations present within popular ideology — on the contrary , I have used such a demarcation in previous chapters — but I am arguing that the latter demarcations have a real importance and should not be dismissed as merely ‘ subjective ’ .
8 However , since concepts , according to Frege , are essentially predicative , this automatically excludes singular existential propositions , and I have argued that such propositions can not be dismissed as " ungrammatical " .
9 Controlling his own forces required more subtle tactics , for they could not be dismissed as " anti-Spain " and their part in his victory and elevation gave them a claim on his gratitude and on how post-war Spain would be shaped .
10 However , the bare infinitive is also found after how , and although this construction is far less frequent than the one with to , it can not be dismissed as nonce usage since fifteen cases have come to light thus far .
11 It 's something quite beyond and more complicated than ‘ adolescence ’ , something that has n't been thought out yet , but should n't be dismissed as ‘ adolescent' ’ . '
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