Example sentences of "could be [vb pp] as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A compromise was being hammered out in which the once-opposed concepts of design and transmutation would be synthesized so that the trends in the fossil record could be accepted as the gradual unfolding of a divine plan . |
| 2 | Now they were being offered as the basis for policy , a suitably tailored " native language " which could be understood as the only common cultural resource of the whole nation , and administered as such . |
| 3 | For , to take just one aspect of this notion of danger , just as crawling things could be seen as the negative side of things approved , so the flow of female blood , again in symbolic terms , could be seen as the negative side of the ideal concept of society as whole and self-contained . |
| 4 | For , to take just one aspect of this notion of danger , just as crawling things could be seen as the negative side of things approved , so the flow of female blood , again in symbolic terms , could be seen as the negative side of the ideal concept of society as whole and self-contained . |
| 5 | One was in the field of biogeography , where the migration of small populations to new areas could be seen as the chief cause of the branchings in the tree of life . |
| 6 | The rise in unemployment and the fall in output at the start of the decade could be seen as the low point of a cycle which started with the 1930s ' innovations in chemical industries and light engineering and generated the new consumer durable industries that fuelled the long post-Second-World-War boom . |
| 7 | A more wide-ranging reason is that love of things , especially artificial things , could be seen as the besetting sin of modern civilisation , and in a way a new one , not quite Avarice and not quite pride , but somehow attached to both ( see pp. 68 , 128 above ) . |
| 8 | They might thus be characterised as the two Ugly Sisters who through their actions succeeded in making the British economy the Cinderella of the industrialised world — and the USA could be cast as the Bad Fairy who ensured that the Ugly Sisters always got their way . |
| 9 | The conclusion was drawn that the ‘ war in Russia can be regarded as over already ’ , and the coming major offensive , which Hitler had announced , could be viewed as the decisive ‘ strike of the German Wehrmacht against the last Bolshevik armies still capable of fighting ’ . |
| 10 | Given that borrowed funds can always be placed on deposit the spread could be regarded as the real cost of borrowing . |
| 11 | The costs for the US would be enormous , indeed the requirement of the French was that the US would pay the entire cost , but money and munitions could be regarded as the essential calipers which might allow the rickety infant to walk ; and as long as it had an American account it would grow up and would be able to buy everything that was needed for a new nation state . |
| 12 | It could be regarded as the original monocoque , because it used a lightweight structure of four small-diameter steel tubes and a stressed aluminium skin . |
| 13 | These could be described as the key elements of the ‘ purchasing mix ’ . |
| 14 | It could be described as the Fordist method of international political regulation . |
| 15 | It could be described as the French equivalent of our potted meat — although it is very different in texture and taste . |
| 16 | In the absence of the proverbial golf course , the lack of networks through which to find suitably experienced women for senior board appointments could be construed as the final obstacle — were it not , it was pointed out , for the rapid proliferation of alternatives in the form of Network , set up all of 12 years ago as a meeting point for women managers , the Scottish Women 's Enterprise Group and Businesswomen 's Clubs . |
| 17 | The Man of Law 's " " I speke in prose " " need not be a description of the tale he is about to tell — it may be read as equivalent to " my speech is ( normally ) prosaic " — but several critics have looked for a prose work of Chaucer 's which could be identified as the once-intended tale of the Man of Law . |
| 18 | Successful schemes always had someone who could be identified as the driving force , someone who pushed and who steered the project through to a satisfactory launch . |
| 19 | Until recently , at A level " the evidence " has mainly consisted of historians ' work ; a text book could be taken as the whole truth . |