Example sentences of "can be considered [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , a book about human rights in the context in which we live can be considered subversive because it disagrees with the vision of those in authority . ’ |
| 2 | For example , a book about human rights in the context in which we live can be considered subversive because it disagrees with the vision of those in authority . ’ |
| 3 | He rejects the suggestion that Buddhism can be considered atheistic on the grounds that God is really the dharma or teaching of the Buddhists . |
| 4 | That part of the total social product which does not re-enter the productive process , either directly or indirectly , can be considered unproductive consumption . |
| 5 | However , where technology is concerned , the nature , of things out there , external to man , sets limits to what can be considered normal and correct . |
| 6 | Secondly , a number of views of this procedure can be considered relevant , eg from the point of view of the individual who is concerned with the speedy settlement of claims , the administrative assistant who checks the claims for errors , and the boss who is concerned with the effect on his status if a large number of false claims were to be made , and discovered outside the section . |
| 7 | If the places occupied by clerical workers have lost their advantages over working-class jobs , then clerks can be considered proletarian . |
| 8 | Both Amis and Eliot can be considered seasoned disapprovers , and it is probable that Amis shares the other writer 's distaste for the biographical critic , whose activities may be responsibly conducted , and are generally acknowledged to have been successful at times , but have often been reckoned to fail . |
| 9 | They promote a " traditional " approach to design problem solving , centred around analytical techniques which are directed towards reducing the number of alternatives that can be considered viable . |
| 10 | There is some uncertainty in the literature as to whether conjunctions which occur within sentences can be considered cohesive , since cohesion is considered by some linguists to be a relation between sentences rather than within sentences ( see Halliday and Hasan , 1976 : 232 ; see also note 2 at the end of this chapter ) . |
| 11 | There are no hard and fast rules determining the exact knot-count required to justify a rug being referred to as " fine " or " finely knotted " , but anything over c. 150 knots per in 2 can be considered medium grade ( reasonably finely knotted ) and anything over 250 or 300 would generally be acknowledged as top grade ( fine ) . |
| 12 | Scientists carrying out the research concluded that no child born into the modern world can be considered immune from the effects of low-level lead exposure . |
| 13 | Manipulation can be considered good or bad depending on the context in which it is used . |
| 14 | But bosses at the North Staffordshire Hospital Centre reinstated her , saying : ‘ No one person can be considered accountable . ’ |
| 15 | Young men who take clerical work as the first step in a management career can be considered middle class . |
| 16 | This wet chamber can be considered small for a submerged filter — but the manufacturer 's tests , I am informed , prove that the trickle filter is responsible for most of the filtration and a large submerged filter compartment is not necessary . |
| 17 | ACCORDING to Plato , memory can be considered similar to a block of wax : ‘ When we wish to remember anything which we have seen or heard … we hold the wax up to the perceptions and thoughts and in that material receive the impressions of them ’ . |
| 18 | In addition , one can not see how the imposition of a charge which is the same whether the journey is one station down the line , or from Inverness to Plymouth , can be considered fair and reasonable within the confines of any Charter . |
| 19 | There is a quite separate consideration relating to species composition of prey assemblages , and this is the extent to which it can be considered diagnostic of the habitats from which the assemblage has been derived . |
| 20 | While most bags have stuff sacks very few can be considered waterproof , so always pack your sleeping bag in its stuff sack inside a separate plastic bag . |
| 21 | No single result of a simulation experiment can be considered meaningful . |
| 22 | The poor boy , who resembles Philip Roth , tells the story in which he takes part , and does so in a manner that can be considered uncontroversial . |
| 23 | The Ombudsmansays of the SE 's findings : ‘ Among the authors ’ conclusions was the view that ‘ there must be substantial doubts as to whether the Barlow Clowes and James Ferguson companies and their directors can be considered fit and proper ’ for membership of the Stock Exchange . ’ |