Example sentences of "could [adv] [be] [vb pp] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Although in itself durable , polythene sheet could hardly be regarded as pleasing in the long term , except where it has been colour printed on commercial kites . |
| 32 | Zurich could hardly be described as remote , either in terms of situation or events . |
| 33 | Though the time she was spending with this man could hardly be described as comfortable , she did n't want it to end . |
| 34 | Aryan woman artists who were not accepted by the Reichskammer der Bildenden Kunste , could still be accepted as special members , but would not be allowed to take part in the exhibitions . |
| 35 | The survey method would have the advantage that no one who could reasonably be described as unemployed would be excluded and no one who was clearly employed would be included . |
| 36 | Mariana herself could also be seen as asleep because she refuses to wake up to the probability that her lover will not return . |
| 37 | These two species could really be described as ideal fish for the ornamental pond , being widely available , hardy , active and brightly coloured making them easy to see even if the pond water is slightly cloudy . |
| 38 | In 1984 , when the InterCity Charter Unit was first set up , it had at its disposal some twenty sets of Mk 1 stock — principally second-class tourist open vehicles — but nothing which could credibly be described as suitable for the VIP trains it was seeking to introduce . |
| 39 | Bucks Railway Centre staff could fairly be described as confused when Ex-GWR 6024 arrived at 08.55 hrs at Quainton without any coaches on Sunday morning . |
| 40 | DI 'd through a desk and recorded onto both DAT and cassette utilising the onboard amp simulator , the distortion could n't be described as amazing , but I presume this must be what people expect to hear these days , although to me it does n't sound too close to what you 'd get from a guitar amp . |
| 41 | Besides , you hardly fell any distance ; the fountain could n't be described as high . ’ |
| 42 | I said knew about it , erm , you must have known about it , erm , that standard edition of the complete psychological works of Freud , that 's its title , and you 're one of the editors , one of the editors , I said , there 's no evidence that you ever intended to include this book in it , even though , you know , I understand that it could n't be published as long as Woodrow Wilson 's family was still alive , but erm , you know , why was n't it published in the standard edition ? |
| 43 | Concentrating on three of the main action sequences from the film Return fails to shock the player in any way , and could even be described as dull . |
| 44 | In many ways it could even be described as idyllic . |
| 45 | Our revival of it could well be seen as defiant ; that 's why we have already commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of Aby Warburg 's death . |
| 46 | Whichever view was taken , the compromise first resort position could well be disregarded as unnecessary , and — until comity analysis was emphasised in later cases — to lack any jurisprudential basis . |
| 47 | This could be interpreted as weak and lacking authority ; it could equally be interpreted as polite and considerate . |
| 48 | If the relatively steep dips of some of the exposed reverse faults were to continue deep into the crust , the region to the south could legitimately be regarded as unprospective . |
| 49 | New strings like this , in a highly salient context , could readily be understood as new messages , of a new level of complexity , by an audience who already grasped the components from their isolated usages in the past . |
| 50 | Images could then be viewed as still sequences ( Fig 1 ) or displayed as a continuous real or accelerated sequence or ‘ movie ’ loop , or parts , or of the whole study . |
| 51 | Women 's world could therefore be seen as inferior to the higher cultural activities of men in the public domain — a fact recognized by the first century AD Jewish philosopher Philo who in his writings made much play of this gender-differentiated opposition between the public and private domains . |
| 52 | Dignan 's attempt to reformulate it in a ‘ progressive ’ way could therefore be seen as partisan , and therefore necessarily outside the ambit of a ‘ rights ’ approach . |
| 53 | It could never be described as beautiful , nor lovely , nor even attractive , yet to me , it seems a metaphor of the undiscovered beauty of dead insects . |
| 54 | Now Cézanne 's art , despite its use of simple , often almost geometrical forms , could never be described as conceptual although he did of course impose a very rigorous sense of pictorial order upon his subjects . |