Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [adv] be [vb pp] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can not exactly be ascribed as a right of the pupil , however , since he can not ensure that the other schools and so on ask for the record . |
| 2 | It is clear , though , that there remains a very wealthy minority who can not reasonably be regarded as ‘ middle class ’ . |
| 3 | The reconstruction of the interior of Uppark can not reasonably be described as maintenance . |
| 4 | The difference can not simply be dismissed as a question of personality , since certain patterns of job satisfaction or dissatisfaction seem to be associated with particular kinds of jobs . |
| 5 | But , in the words of Grant ( 1987 : 56–7 ) , ‘ the distinctive relationship that the nationalised industries have with government , and the politically charged environment in which they operate , means that they can not simply be treated as a special case of the close relationship that many large privately owned enterprises have with government . ’ |
| 6 | This means that the model of continuous and homogeneous time which Lévi-Strauss had also argued against can not here be regarded as the time of history . |
| 7 | Clubs and other organisations which are set up purely for sporting purposes can not normally be recognised as charities and would not be able to enjoy the relaxations proposed . |
| 8 | The Exchange discourages the use of equity shares with no or restricted voting rights , so this can not normally be used as a device to retain control amongst a few shareholders with voting rights . |
| 9 | Nonetheless , there are important differences between landscape and wildlife , in terms of way their qualities can be measured , perceived and protected , which suggest they can not easily be treated as one and the same . |
| 10 | Where there does exist a genuine public expression of concern about the way the police operate this can not just be dismissed as a matter of misunderstanding or be written off as the foolish ramblings of that police ‘ folk devil ’ the ‘ loony left ’ , who would dismantle the system for their own political ends . |
| 11 | It can not therefore be described as an inherited disease . |
| 12 | The pattern revealed by kinship terms can not therefore be used as evidence of marriage systems in the way that Morgan believed . |
| 13 | Unfortunately the friend is anonymous , and Young , that strangely and personally chosen official biographer , can not always be regarded as a witness either of truth or charity . |
| 14 | That issue was not , however , raised in the case , and can not formally be regarded as the reasoning underpinning the decision . |
| 15 | Continual rises in land values can not necessarily be viewed as an automatic process . |
| 16 | Indeed , as we shall see later , a rise in total output accompanied by a change in the distribution of income which makes some people better off and others worse off can not necessarily be interpreted as an improvement in the country 's living standards . |
| 17 | Much of the evidence for settlement colonisation is based on the first reference to a place in documents , but this can not now be accepted as a date for origin . |
| 18 | Moreover , its observed non-hydrostatic mass distribution can not readily be understood as a hydrostatic state ‘ frozen ’ from an earlier environment , such as when it was closer to the Earth . |
| 19 | A trivial , and at the same time profound , corollary is that the results of supercomputing can not usefully be displayed as graphs or tables of numbers . |
| 20 | In many subjects , statements of attainment can not sensibly be seen as achievements that take two years of work . |