Example sentences of "could be [vb pp] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Committee also recommended that the law should be changed so that the husband could be registered as the father . |
| 2 | Inhibition has been seen as the insoluble problem of British movies : it could be represented as the source of their great potential . |
| 3 | NATO , when it was established in 1949 , could be represented as the revival of a war-time coalition rather than a realistic acceptance that Britain could no longer defend herself . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It seemed to me that the discovery of Romans , Celts and Jews by the Greeks and their revaluation of Iranian civilization could be isolated as the subject of these Trevelyan lectures . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Easter was introduced in Rome about the year 160 , and as in Alexandria was celebrated on the Sunday following the Hebrew Passover , which for practical purposes could be reckoned as the Sunday following the first full moon after the spring equinox . |
| 8 | By retaining the other elements of the plan of this block , the main entrance that had been created in 1959 could be maintained as the ‘ front door ’ with the bathroom/WC being reached from the adjacent entrance hall ( Fig 48 ) . |
| 9 | The negotiations took place over the course of a year between autumn 1990 and summer 1991 , and could be characterized as the centre progressively conceding to the demands of the republics for more independence . |
| 10 | That realisation is a product of the power of rational thought which came to the emerging ‘ human' ’ being in the course of the evolutionary process , for it is in remote retrospect that man can now see that the division of the first cell was a ‘ good ’ event , and had to be defined as such for the unanswerable reason that it could not have been anything else , otherwise there was nothing that could be defined as the origin of ‘ good ’ that was not dependent on dogma and superstition . |
| 11 | Computational Linguistics could be defined as the study of computer systems for understanding , generating and processing natural language [ Grishman , 1986 ] . |
| 12 | This vicious circle tends to leave a ‘ rump ’ of inhabitants who are unable to run a car , many of whom could be defined as the ‘ transport poor ’ ( this term will be discussed below ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | In the 1660s Henry Morgan , who had been recruited to help defend the islands , could be seen as the most outrageous of pirates or as a bold seadog who , in the course of active defence of the islands , led his men through extreme hardship to the capture of Panama , which was then brutally plundered . |
| 17 | On one level the policy of local agencies evolves in a way that is ‘ disjointed ’ and ‘ incremental ’ and could be seen as the antithesis of responsible party policy-making . |
| 18 | The government 's 1983 de-hospitalization pilot programme , followed by Griffiths investigation into community care , could be seen as the beginning of central direction of mental health services . |
| 19 | Earlier in this book it was suggested that the idea of " popular power " could be seen as the core of the various ideas and conceptions of democracy . |
| 20 | In essence , the objective of a state-controlled natural monopoly could be seen as the maximization of social welfare emanating from the product in question . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But although it could be seen as the fashion of protest — ‘ what could be more defiant at a time of recession and social decay than seemingly lavish , luxurious clothes ? ’ |
| 23 | If culture and artistic developments are interpreted as integral aspects of the human social condition , a subgroup 's lack of artistic development could be seen as the result of its failure to develop an active social life , or as a reflection of the dehumanisation and suppression of that group . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Although this was a far cry from the power and authority of a body like the United States Supreme Court , it nevertheless could be seen as the beginning of a practical appreciation of the concept of constitutionality as understood in the West . |
| 26 | Or , finally , his failure to adapt himself in 1944 – 46 could be seen as the product of a genuine idealism . |
| 27 | But to do so could be seen as the prelude to a deliberate devaluation , rather than the logical consequence of the German action . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | They could be viewed as the organ within the living organism whose task it was to supply the basic necessity of capital without any need to accord them a fuller role within the enterprise . |