Example sentences of "can [be] [verb] to be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Referring back to the main circuit diagram , Fig. 2 , resistor R5 can be seen to be the charge resistor for capacitor C3 , whilst a rapid discharge occurs predominantly through R6 . |
| 2 | Some caputs can be seen to be the logical successors to Roman and pre-Roman sites , the latter remaining as hillforts which may have been reoccupied in post-Roman times . |
| 3 | Even the notorious " one consonant or two ? " problem can sometimes be solved this way : " reccommend " can be seen to be the wrong spelling because the word is made by adding the prefix " re " to the word " commend " . |
| 4 | There are few examples of their being scattered extensively and repeatedly used within a single text ; where this does happen , as for instance in Les quatre Souhais Saint Martin , the practice can readily be justified by its thematic significance ( on which see further below ) , as again can be seen to be the case with the cornucopia of excrement that Robin drops on to the deservedly victimized Jouglet . |
| 5 | It can be said to be the wind rustling through the trees , when first heard as the Tsarevich climbs over the wall to find his Princess . |
| 6 | If then you say that in such cases the mind thinks , I would only draw your attention to the fact that you are using a metaphor , that here the mind is an agent in a different sense from that in which the hand can be said to be the agent in writing . |
| 7 | But it still leaves us with the crucial problem that Sartre had to solve , namely how to link human consciousness with the processes of history so that the former can be said to be the agent of the latter . |
| 8 | The subject in the USA is , therefore , still implicitly dominated by one major theoretical perspective , and given the dominance of US scholars in the literature at large , Realism can be said to be the major current approach . |
| 9 | As the balloon expands , the distance between any two spots increases , but there is no spot that can be said to be the center of the expansion . |
| 10 | Surpluses on a period of account should not be automatically lost , if they can be demonstrated to be the result of efficient working and not over budgeting , otherwise controllers will ensure that there are no surpluses . |
| 11 | If the number of children varies , then the branching ratio n can be taken to be the number which makes this sum give the right answer . |
| 12 | This ability is independent of idiosyncratic beliefs , feelings and usages ( although it may refer to those shared by participants ) , and is based for the most part on quite regular and relatively abstract principles Pragmatics can be taken to be the description of this ability , as it operates both for particular languages and language in general . |
| 13 | The sites and forms of these have constantly been changing , so that often what appears as a nucleated village around a green can be shown to be the last , and a relatively late , development in the landscape . |
| 14 | unc Sometimes you will find questions like this : ⅖ + ⅓ Here neither denominator can be changed to be the same as the other . |
| 15 | The underlying quarrel in marriage is frequently about how often each can be allowed to be the baby . |
| 16 | The tune-o-matic bridge can be considered to be the 335 connection , but looks a mite out of place on such a small body . |
| 17 | In this she can be considered to be the founder of district nursing . |
| 18 | It can be considered to be the microelectronic equivalent of a mainframe 's central processing unit ( CPU ) . |
| 19 | It has been argued that special attention should be focused upon the resilience and potential for recovery of the soil profile in view of the inputs induced by man ( Trudgill , 1977 , chapter 8 ) , and the importance of the problem is underlined by Toy ( 1982 ) in a review of accelerated erosion when he concludes that such erosion can be considered to be the pre-eminent environmental problem in the United States by virtue of its widespread occurrence and cumulative cost . |
| 20 | Cropper looked for support from the African Institution for the removal of the West Indians ' financial advantage in the sugar trade , privately assuring Zachary Macaulay that the introduction of free-labour sugar was opposed by the planters because they knew it ‘ will destroy their System of cultivation , tho ’ it can be proved to be the only means of establishing West Indian property on a lasting foundation . |