Example sentences of "they can be [verb] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If arranged along a low wire or rail like a single espalier , they can be trained as long dwarf hedges around borders and vegetable beds . |
| 4 | They can be seen as large-scale social variants of Piaget 's psychological processes of assimilation and accommodation ( see , for example , Piaget 1955 ) . |
| 5 | Although these are not paraphrases , they can be regarded as stylistic variants in a more liberal sense : as alternative conceptualizations , or ways of " making sense " of the same event . |
| 6 | There is disagreement , however , whether or not they can be interpreted as lateral time equivalents of one another . |
| 7 | They do not in themselves betoken infection , although they can be taken as indirect evidence of infection in many cases . |
| 8 | This partly reflects the fact that strikes are a dramatic form of conflict ( or at least they can be portrayed as dramatic events ) , and partly it reflects the fact that public opinion in Britain is firmly fixed upon strikes . |
| 9 | Describing natural phenomena under separate headings always has the unwelcome implication that they can be considered as separate entities , each in its own water-tight compartment . |
| 10 | Some problems in the Marxist theory of history , and various new interpretations of it which allow a greater autonomy to political changes for example , the emergence of the absolutist state — were discussed earlier ; and in the present context I would like to focus attention upon two more recent phenomena , and to ask whether or not they can be considered as major changes of political regime . |