Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [be] treated as " in BNC.
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| 1 | If grouped together ( within 5″ of another chariot ) they may be treated as a unit for leadership tests testing on the value of the highest . |
| 2 | Assume further that the probe lengths are sufficiently small that they may be treated as points in comparison with the clones , and that the probes are all single-copy . |
| 3 | The government 's already got rid of a minimum wage in industry , but farmworkers say they must be treated as a special case . |
| 4 | They should be treated as a guide only and not as a complete or detailed study of the law . |
| 5 | They should be treated as a guide only and not as a complete or detailed study of the law . |
| 6 | Merton was dismayed that Mannheim distinguished between ‘ cultural science ’ and ‘ exact science ’ ; for Merton they should be treated as similar forms of knowledge because they are based on equivalent epistemologies . |
| 7 | They should be treated as place-holders for other propositions , rather than as representing a logically independent class of propositions of their own . |
| 8 | They have got to demand in the politest possible way , but in the most determined way , that they should be treated as responsible citizens whatever their walk of life People take others at their own evaluation . |
| 9 | I think they should be treated as adults and allowed to make that decision for themselves . |
| 10 | If they kept to German names and were captured they would be treated as traitors . |
| 11 | Ukraine 's and Moldova 's refusal to sign this agreement led to threats from Russia that they would be treated as foreign countries . |
| 12 | The Customs and Excise have the power to direct that where two or more people purport to trade separately to avoid registration for VAT , but are really part of a single business , they shall be treated as a single business for VAT purposes . |
| 13 | While they will be taxed at the investor 's top rate , when repatriated they will be treated as income , rather than capital , and therefore avoid the risk of having to pay capital gains tax . |
| 14 | Both titles will have the artwork on the dust jacket repeated on the cover , so that they can be treated as ordinary paperbacks as preferred . |
| 15 | One of the consequences of holding instructions in store locations is that they can be treated as data , and manipulated as such by the computer . |
| 16 | The physical implementation and application areas of microcomputers are thus different from mainstream computers , but at the instruction set level which we discuss in this book they can be treated as variations on the central Von Neumann model . |
| 17 | Science , as it has developed right across the board since the end of the sixteenth century , has operated with the axiomatic assumption that events in the material world , out there , external to human minds , are governed by regularities which are so coherent and consistent that they can be treated as " natural laws " . |
| 18 | Either we may see them as qualifying the properties inherent in the nouns , or we may take the view that lawfulness and distance serve to mark out certain generally recognized subcategories of heirs and cousins ( whereas one can scarcely argue for any generally accepted subcategories of strangers and kids marked out by totality and mereness ) , so that they can be treated as ordinary ascriptive adjectives . |
| 19 | The development of methods of mass diffusion ( first printed , then electromechanical and electronic ) has affected all forms of music , and any of them can be treated as a commodity ; if a widely distributed recording of a Tchaikovsky symphony turns the piece into ‘ popular music ’ , then the definition is , to say the least , unhelpful . |