Example sentences of "[adv] can be [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | They glow in the dark so can be used as a practical yet fashionable way of making drivers aware of children in the dark . |
| 2 | The relative percentage scores listed above can be taken as a very rough indication of prototype awareness , illustrating the radiality of the knowledge system . |
| 3 | Both schools of thought contain writers of diverse views , but to oversimplify , the former broadly can be characterized as writers who focus on the economic behaviour of members of households and families as the key to understanding family relationships and how they change . |
| 4 | Office organisations also can be considered as systems . |
| 5 | The ability to communicate extra-sensorily can be seen as a sort of literary emblem of that which is fundamentally beyond expression . |
| 6 | Thus as a first approximation ( but see below ) , now can be glossed as " the time at which the speaker is producing the utterance containing now " . |
| 7 | It may have had a different meaning in a different place ( e.g. " cot " means a child 's bed in British English , but also a bed for adults in Indian English ) , or at a different time ( e.g. " gentle " used to carry the meaning of " upper class " , as in " gentry " , but which now can be used as an approving description — something like " sensitive " — of anyone 's character ) . |
| 8 | Thus it is assumed that the attitude-holder might possess certain beliefs , whose content implicitly can be taken as a criticism of counter-stances , but these stances may not yet have been historically realized in argument . |
| 9 | Modernism then can be defined as the absence of externally imposed order on aesthetic practices . |
| 10 | The Renaissance then can be seen as an addition to the early modern period . |
| 11 | We can improve on our previous gloss for now , by offering " the pragmatically given span including CT " , where that span may be the instant associated with the production of the morpheme itself , as in the gestural use in ( 53 ) , or the perhaps interminable period indicated in ( 53 ) Pull the trigger now ! ( 54 ) I 'm now working on a PhD Now contrasts with then , and indeed then can be glossed as " not now " to allow for its use in both past and future . |
| 12 | So , er er aggression again can be seen as a demand placed on the ego by the id , or for erm release as it were , when an ego erm goes and does something that , that releases the aggression . |
| 13 | Girls ' subject choices , their lack of competition with boys , their restricted career choices , etc. can be interpreted as self chosen , rational ( even if misguided ) responses to the position of women in society . |
| 14 | The demi-caractère style has its roots in classical technique , but must be coloured by more clearly defined and individual movements which allow the dancers to show they are playing the part of some character who has some claim to live in the real world and therefore can be recognised as such . |
| 15 | The significant point is that an initial capital is a form of emphasis or highlighting in writing , and therefore can be used as a visual correlative of emphasis in speech ( see further 5.4.2 ) . |
| 16 | Fourthly , the ecosystem is a type of general system and therefore can be visualized as an open system tending towards a steady state under the laws of open system thermodynamics . |
| 17 | It is worth emphasizing its major difference from the structuralism of the sixties and seventies : whereas this later structuralism is mainly interested in the structure of literature as a whole , to the extent that this too can be viewed as a system of signs , the Prague School version took as its main object the structure of the individual text and , like the later Formalists , viewed the individual text as a system . |
| 18 | The only possibility left to him of safeguarding his own position , it seems , is to deny not only that " Men exist " but " ( Ex ) x is human " too can be treated as genuine propositions . |