Example sentences of "[noun sg] can be [vb pp] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Definition : Consumption can be regarded as total expenditure by households on goods and services which yield utility in the current period . |
| 2 | If the skull is extremely fragmentary , pieces of wood can be used as supporting props . |
| 3 | Both the 1965 ‘ plan ’ and devaluation can be seen as technocratic measures , equally inadequate to abolish the competitive weakness of the UK economy — a weakness which is inscribed in its industrial structure , and the slow growth of productivity which is linked to the development of social relations within enterprises as well as the shortfall of investment . |
| 4 | The assignment of binary bit patterns to operation codes , and of portions of the operation code field to positions in the instruction format , must be done in such a way that the hardware of the computer can decode the instruction ; thus it must be possible to extract an initial portion of the operation code from a fixed position in the instruction and decide , from the bit pattern found there , whether an operation is now specified ( in which case the rest of the instruction can be interpreted as secondary fields ) or whether a further portion of instruction has to be decoded , and so on . |
| 5 | Lattice enthalpies determined through the Born-Haber cycle can be regarded as experimental values since the lattice enthalpies are calculated from experimental values . |
| 6 | a ) Culture and its impact : culture can be defined as distinctive patterns of behaviour which result from basic beliefs and traditions . |
| 7 | These pressures against infant survival can be seen as early indications that fertility was an increasing burden in a changing society . |
| 8 | Particular subjects on the curriculum can be seen as different sub-cultures in which reality is variously reformulated . |
| 9 | It appears that some at least of the variation in the cyanogenesis polymorphism over the field can be explained as local micro-evolution in response to locally patchy selection . |
| 10 | More accurately , the apathy and futility can be described as schizoid aloofness . |
| 11 | The central , distinctive idea here is that the rational expectations hypothesis can be seen as imposing restrictions on what we should observe in the world , and so the validity of rational expectations can be tested by testing for the validity of those restrictions . |
| 12 | Thus the rational expectation hypothesis can be seen as supporting Friedman 's policy recommendation . |
| 13 | Let us think again about what is good in the dualist position : it captures the insight that two pieces of language can be seen as alternative ways of saying the same thing : that is , that there can be STYLISTIC VARIANTS with different STYLISTIC VALUES . |
| 14 | The second is the statement of a clear evolutionary sequence in the Preface to a Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy , the work where Marx expresses [ p. 83 ] most coherently his theory of history : ‘ In broad outlines Asiatic , ancient , feudal and modern bourgeois modes of production can be designated as progressive epochs in the economic formation of society ’ . |