Example sentences of "and can [adv] be [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | NHS professionals normally perceive day hospitals as a possible alternative to hospital admission for people who are acutely ill and can not be treated as outpatients or at home , as a place for recently discharged short-term in-patients to attend for a period while settling back into normal life , and as a place to treat , monitor and give social support to long-term patients who would otherwise live isolated lives . |
| 2 | The onset of puberty may occur as early as eleven or twelve and can not be reckoned as the sign of having reached adult status . |
| 3 | The empirical evidence suggests , however , that the supervision which institutional investors exercise over the management of a company is minimal and can not be regarded as a sufficient control over the managers of large public companies . |
| 4 | For example , at the end of 1986 a small fund owned and administered by a group of workers in a nationalized industry which we shall call ‘ The General Sickness and Funeral Fund ’ had the following investments : Notes : The figures for the gross yield on equities takes into account the time over which the investment has been held ( unstated ) and can not be used as a holding period return for CAPM as the periods are unequal . |
| 5 | But poor refereeing is part and parcel of football and can not be used as an excuse for Newcastle 's plight . |
| 6 | There are , however , instances where fixed term contracts are renewed automatically over a considerable period of time and can reasonably be described as ‘ rolling ’ contracts . |
| 7 | The range , which is priced between 99p and £11.99 , will appeal to all ages and can even be used as an incentive to introduce your young children into the garden . |
| 8 | The Signature eye pencils shape and define eyebrows ( the strong eyebrow is an essential part of today 's face ) and can also be used as a soft eyeliner . |
| 9 | Both these products are made on a large scale and can still be regarded as commodities . |
| 10 | But references to meanings are generally based on certain accidental characteristics that act as contextual code signals in communication , and can hardly be treated as part of the " essential description " of their referents . |
| 11 | Aggregate demand for the economy 's goods and services is the sum of all the demands for home-produced goods , and can therefore be written as |
| 12 | Tc-99m HMPAO , unlike other Tc-99m agents , is relatively stable in granulocytes compared with other blood cells and can therefore be used as a selective granulocyte label without the need for the tedious technique required for the separation of these cells from mixed leucocyte suspensions . |
| 13 | It shields the head from damage and can therefore be described as protective armour of a limited kind . |
| 14 | To present such fantasy in your article as though it were fact is unworthy of your newspaper and can only be regarded as malicious mischief-making . |
| 15 | Stenopus hispidus sometimes called the Boxing Shrimp , is far more aggressive towards its own kind and can only be kept as a single specimen or a matched pair . |
| 16 | The wave , like the mele , like all music , like the text , is a mental event , since it is never wholly present in any one instant and can only be grasped as a formal pattern existing through time . |