Example sentences of "they can be treated " in BNC.

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1 They can be treated in the short term with an anti-male hormone injection from the vet and this will see them safely through difficult periods without the need for the unkindest cut .
2 A large set of genes concerned with mimicry in butterflies became tightly linked together on the same chromosome , so tightly that they can be treated as one gene .
3 There is a theoretical distinction between ( 1 ) a misspelling and ( 2 ) a mis-recognition , but the results from recognition will not enable us to distinguish between them , and indeed they can be treated similarly for attempted correction .
4 For Case 2 , there are actually two sub-cases , although they can be treated similarly :
5 Not being part of the Chewong social universe , they operate according to different rules but , interestingly , this does not mean that they can be treated in qualitatively different ways — such as be attacked .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 Once preparations are obtained they can be treated to serve a number of purposes and some of these will be described .
10 But , of course , they can be treated .
11 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 " .
12 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 .
13 Although these words refer to particularly Caribbean concepts , they can be treated by speakers as words of ordinary ( i.e. London ) English in terms of their pronunciation .
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