Example sentences of "can be [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope now that perhaps the legal proceedings can be held in abeyance and discussions can take place so some out of court settlement can be reached as the judges are urging . |
| 2 | The classical continuity which remains for the plucked string is that each of its harmonics can be sounded as softly or as loudly as we please . |
| 3 | In that sense , our failure to measure up to that ideal can be seen , can be measured , can be understood , and the strength of the holy spirit can be sought as we all strive in his power not to fail in future . |
| 4 | This can be represented as shown in Figure 2.2 by Mason ( 1975 p. 2 ) . |
| 5 | As Bob Colenutt describes in this volume ( chapter 2 ) , state financed property speculation can be represented as inner city benevolence when the government hands over rich tracts of real estate to an unaccountable Urban Development Corporation in London . |
| 6 | Thus a very simple view of the operation of language as a coding system can be represented as follows : The broken line in this diagram indicates that although phonology is not actually realized in a written text , it is there " by implication " . |
| 7 | and the structure of a particular sentence can be represented as in Figure 4 . |
| 8 | This is still a confusing drawing but as before can be represented as either nodes , enclosing boxes , primary silhouettes , or secondary silhouettes of the comprising parts as illustrated in Figures 6.30a to 6.30d , respectively . |
| 9 | They can be represented as in Figure 11.6 . |
| 10 | The entities are quantifiable and can be represented as special tables , known as relations . |
| 11 | In the case of the hierarchical data mapping , the one-to-many relationship types can be represented as parent-child relationships but many-to-many relationships are more difficult to represent and lead to duplication . |
| 12 | This model can be represented as in Figure 2.1 . |
| 13 | This mixed model can be represented as shown in Figure 2.3 . |
| 14 | This can be represented as shown in Figure 2.4 . |
| 15 | Thus , as above , letting can be analysed as inseparable from the realization of the event evoked by the infinitive . |
| 16 | This implies in turn that in its use with the modal auxiliaries the bare infinitive can be analysed as expressing a potentiality coinciding in time with another potentiality ( the modal 's event ) . |
| 17 | For the time being , notice that on two occasions , Carol interrupts the flow of her own talk , trying to remember when a particular event took place — and on both occasions her self-interruption is in LE , interrupting a Creole sequence : Thus Carol 's talk in this conversation can be analysed as making use of two distinct codes , " Creole " and " English " , between which she moves systematically from time to time . |
| 18 | By substituting for the values of Do and so on , this model can be generalized as follows , . |
| 19 | We find social relationships simplified , while myth and ritual are elaborated … if liminality is regarded as a time and place of withdrawal from normal modes of social action , it can be seen as potentially a period of scrutinization of the central values and axioms of the culture in which it occurs . |
| 20 | The gourd-breasts and the leather-thonged sorcerer 's switch can be seen as referring to indigenous culture , as can the snakes ' heads with which the yokes of her skirt appear to terminate . |
| 21 | The ‘ Hitler myth ’ can be seen as providing the central motor for integration , mobilization , and legitimation within the Nazi system of rule . |
| 22 | Indeed , the Stewart monarchy can be seen as having an unusually easy time , in comparison with the difficulties faced by others in imposing royal rule elsewhere in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries . |
| 23 | If employed , they can be seen as having obsolete skills in which it is not worth investing . |
| 24 | I would like to suggest that all activities that take us outside the practical business of living ( sacred worship , carnivals , listening to music and reading a novel , etc. , etc. ) can be seen as either subsumed under play or as extensions of it . |
| 25 | At the operational level , therefore , latent inhibition is a good example of the phenomenon , and any theory of latent inhibition can be seen as proposing a mechanism by which proactive interference occurs . |
| 26 | To this extent the theory can be seen as incorporating the central feature of Wagner 's ( 1976 , 1981 ) interpretation of the phenomenon — the suggestion that further learning proceeds slowly about a stimulus that has formed associations with its antecedents . |
| 27 | Experiments investigating the ‘ differential outcomes effect ’ ( DOE ; Peterson and Trapold 1980 ) can be seen as collapsing these two stages . |
| 28 | In one way , as Jameson suggests , this can be seen as evasive , a negation of art 's potential to confront the challenges of life and history . |
| 29 | In another way , however , it can be seen as responsibly encouraging readers to challenge for themselves cultural codes and established patterns of thought , including some of those which make contemporary history so intractable . |
| 30 | Both Rasta and Skin can be seen as bids for some kind of dignity , for what the late Pete Meadon , original mod and one-time manager of The Who once called ‘ clean living under difficult circumstances ’ : grace under pressure . |