Example sentences of "it can [not/n't] be [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those opposed to the ordination of women to the priesthood maintain that it can not be seen as a legitimate development because it is ‘ closely related to the central doctrines of the Christian faith ’ . |
| 2 | However , it can not be seen as a new problem area . |
| 3 | In the Midlands and south of England values average out at roughly £20-£30 per thousand acres , but although this represents an average of about 6d. an acre — which was near enough the going rate for rent — it can not be employed as a general conversion factor , for while it may be applicable to a county or other major division , the ratios for individual parishes and hamlets are subject to extreme variations . |
| 4 | Expressed differently , if a thing exists genuinely in se ( i.e. if it is a true substance ) , then a description of its defining features can not involve references to anything outside that thing ; by the same token , if what purports to be a description of a substance involves references to different substances , then it can not be regarded as a genuine description of any substance . |
| 5 | It can not be regarded as a matter of indifference whether the unfilled portions of the world shall be peopled by Eastern races , by negroes , by Slavonic or other Eastern European peoples , by the Latin races , or by the races of Northern Europe . |
| 6 | And just as the Spirit can not be equated with any property in man , equally it can not be regarded as the stuff of which the world is made , the comprehensive life principle which integrates the universe , as the Stoics maintained — a view which , through pagan philosophical influence , crept into the inter-testamental books of the Apocrypha . |
| 7 | However , where such a term is used simply to define the consequences of breach of an express term in the contract it can not be regarded as an exclusion clause . |
| 8 | The language presented to them may be a genuine record of native speaker behaviour , genuine , that is to say , as textual data , but to the extent that it does not engage native speaker response it can not be realized as authentic discourse . |
| 9 | While the case may appear to support the Woolwich principle it can not be treated as a decision of any weight . |
| 10 | It can not be incorporated as a handy extra methodological tool to be resorted to when all else fails . |
| 11 | But it can not be used as a way of endowing anyone with authority where that person had none . |
| 12 | Here , surely , are sufficient examples to show that , however banal or simple our definition of democracy , it soon turns out that it can not be used as a plain , uncomplicated term of description at all . |
| 13 | First , if the action must be taken very urgently , it can not be taken as part of a full corporate strategic analysis ; there would not be the time . |
| 14 | Since it can not be known as a concept that will realize itself in the future , Sartre argues instead that the totality only produces itself in the moment : ‘ The incarnation as such is at once unrealizable except as totalization of everything and irreducible to a pure abstract unity of that which it totalizes ’ ( II , 58 ) . |
| 15 | It can not be described as a student-led movement , starting as it did on a wall located on a busy shopping street , rather than on one of the capital 's many campuses . |
| 16 | It can not be claimed as evidence of their effectiveness . |