Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] can be [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patterns of Ministry to my mind can be interpreted as patterns of sharing and partnership is active and not fussy . |
| 2 | Their experience can be used as part of the learning progress for Social Work and joint examination of the subject can be fruitful . |
| 3 | Their work can be seen as a range of attempts to deal with a shared set of problems which have perhaps been most clearly formulated by the greatest among them — by Bloch and Febvre ( the founders of the journal ) in the first generation , by Braudel in the second , and more recently by Le Roy Ladurie . |
| 4 | On the whole , their work can be read as a restatement of the late Formalist position . |
| 5 | Dealers take account of the areas sown with each kind of grain , of the forwardness and weight of the crops , of the supply of things which can be used as substitutes for grain , and of the things for which grain can be used as a substitute . |
| 6 | But as this noble institution has only ever rewarded women writers for being ladylike — Oldie pin-ups , maybe — or for assuming the pompous , androgynous mantle of — God help us — George Eliot , her exclusion can be read as a back-handed compliment . |
| 7 | Its use can be regarded as a move back to a more " managed " approach to the determination of interest rates . |
| 8 | They stated that their model can be viewed as an amplification of Clark ( 1973 ) . |
| 9 | One can imagine that if Xerxes had been successful and absorbed Greece into the Persian empire , Greek archaic art might have crystallised in the decorative academic formulae which characterise Achaemenian ; while the threat and its repulse can be seen as the catalyst which released the spirit of Hellenism , flowering in the fifth century as richly in literature and thought as in the visual arts . |
| 10 | Taking a manufacturing organization as an example , its inventory can be described as : |
| 11 | The shell has a mathematically simple form , and , roughly speaking , its shape can be understood as the result of a that organ , the mantle , which itself grows at a variable rate but secretes minerals at a rate proportional to the length of its periphery . |
| 12 | In Chapter 5 Ryan shows how her formula can be used as a " fiction automaton " , that is as " a machine built for the purpose of telling fiction from non-fiction " ( p. 80 ) . |
| 13 | In this respect , his pluralism can be regarded as a more sophisticated version of monism . |
| 14 | A person who throws a missile at a football match can clearly be guilty of violent disorder ( provided always that there are three or more present using or threatening violence ) , since his conduct can be regarded as violence by virtue of the extended definition of ‘ violence ’ in the Act . |
| 15 | The problem drinker in our society can be defined as any person who experiences social , psychological or physical problems as a consequence of his or her own repeated drinking , and services should not only be aimed at the individuals themselves but also at family members who suffer as a result of someone else 's drinking . |
| 16 | But the animals that are to be seen in our time can be interpreted as the end-products of an arms race that was run in the past . |