Example sentences of "can [be] viewed as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is especially so when the actor in question can be viewed as a contender for the title of number one in a profession well populated with aggressively chauvinistic egocentrics . |
| 2 | The emphasis in Working for patients on services to individual patients , and provisions such as ‘ Life-style consultations ’ in connection with the 1990 Contract for GPs , can be viewed as a reinforcement of the individualistic view of health . |
| 3 | The coincidental publication of the Guidance notes on the Code of Professional Conduct during a major test of professional practice can be viewed as a piece of misfortune or as a superb opportunity to affirm the stature of the profession by using the Code to support the Library Association 's case . |
| 4 | So the AP can be viewed as a TP . |
| 5 | Although there would undoubtedly have been job losses after the merger , the proposal can be viewed as a relatively straightforward attempt to restructure and then rationalise an industry with excess capacity , with firms which were insufficiently large to exploit economies of scale and thus unable to make a profit . |
| 6 | One theory suggests that personality can be viewed as a series of concentric rings . |
| 7 | Anyone who has ever played with a gyroscope will know that the object displays a distinct aversion to being turned upside-down ; in many ways the spinning Earth can be viewed as a sort of super-heavy gyroscope . |
| 8 | Similarly , abandonment can be viewed as a shift or a decline in population . |
| 9 | Consequently , secondary-school pupils in China have only a limited opportunity to go into higher education and in this sense , those who do make it can be viewed as a privileged elite . |
| 10 | While the new book can be viewed as a hypertext because it has a semantic net to which paragraphs are attached , print on paper remains the dominant medium for the delivery of books , and Hypertext has also been generated in paper , linear form . |
| 11 | An exhibition can be viewed as a means of getting noticed and attracting publicity and contracts : as a rare chance of seeing a good deal of your recent work together and thus creating an opportunity for self-evaluation and an assessment of the way your work is developing ; and , by no means least , as a way of selling work . |
| 12 | Moreover , NFS , widely used in the world of Unix for resource sharing , can be viewed as a competitor to Netware . |
| 13 | Furthermore , the movement from one to another can be viewed as a movement from the abstract to the concrete . |
| 14 | The employees can be viewed as a principal to the manager as agent . |
| 15 | Even writers working in solitude try to form some idea of the receiver of their work and adjust to it — the meaningfulness of what they say can be viewed as a measure of the success of that prediction and adjustment . |
| 16 | A transformation is carried out by the measuring instrument : it can be viewed as a device for converting properties that unaided human intuition can not deal with into ones that it can . |
| 17 | Thus the statement that That 's a dog entails That 's an animal can be viewed as a kind of shorthand for a pattern of normality like the following : |
| 18 | Thus labour only sub-contractors can be viewed as a sub-category of free lancers and certain workers on training contracts as a sub-category of workers on performance contracts . |
| 19 | Seen from this perspective , a customer base can be viewed as a population most of whose members are in a stable state of financial service equilibrium , with a set of financial accounts adequately matching their needs . |
| 20 | But , as Alison Lurie observed in the Language of Clothes ( Bloomsbury , £11.99 ) , ‘ The entire history of female fashion in this century can be viewed as a series of more or less successful campaigns to force , flatter or bribe women back into uncomfortable or awkward styles in order to handicap them in professional competition with men . ’ |
| 21 | This can be viewed as a fairly powerful mechanism for exerting control over a number , if not all pupils , in a situation where few sanctions exist . |
| 22 | But this is surely nitpicking , in what can be viewed as a significant contribution to our knowledge of so many aspects relating to the ordinary citizens of Florence over a period of more than 200 years . |
| 23 | The SEP can be viewed as a replacement or extension of the first postulate of SR . |
| 24 | It is worth emphasizing its major difference from the structuralism of the sixties and seventies : whereas this later structuralism is mainly interested in the structure of literature as a whole , to the extent that this too can be viewed as a system of signs , the Prague School version took as its main object the structure of the individual text and , like the later Formalists , viewed the individual text as a system . |
| 25 | The Bank states that there is no attempt to undermine existing agreement and that its proposals can be viewed as a reasonable basis to provide permanent employment for all members in the long term temporary staff category . |
| 26 | This can be viewed as a familiar meditation on the theme of constancy and inconstancy between lovers , the reader being granted a glimpse into a private world whose terms of precise reference remain unknown . |
| 27 | The model can be viewed as a set of linked industry models . |
| 28 | The fluorite structure can be viewed as a face-centred cubic arrangement of cations within which the anions are arranged tetrahedrally . |
| 29 | Insider dealing can be viewed as a tax on dealing in equities ( King and Roell 1988 ) . |