Example sentences of "can [be] [vb pp] [subord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Bob Colenutt describes in this volume ( chapter 2 ) , state financed property speculation can be represented as inner city benevolence when the government hands over rich tracts of real estate to an unaccountable Urban Development Corporation in London . |
| 2 | The entities are quantifiable and can be represented as special tables , known as relations . |
| 3 | Thus , as above , letting can be analysed as inseparable from the realization of the event evoked by the infinitive . |
| 4 | As our work has sometimes been interpreted as conflicting with that of Labov , it should be noted here that the above characterization of the speech community is fundamentally of the same type as his and can be seen as derivative from his insights . |
| 5 | The secret of success here will be the basis of consultation and cooperation which can be seen as beneficial to both sides . |
| 6 | In some sense this mental exploration can be seen as coextensive with the work of the other " social explorers " who , continuing a tradition from Victorian times sought to investigate the " dark continent " or " jungles " of working-class life . |
| 7 | This new identity will enable us to offer project and construction management services to clients through a consultancy business which can be seen as separate from the Group 's Contracting arm . |
| 8 | One is the ‘ Psychic Spectrum ’ , whereby different levels of reality or ‘ vibrations ’ can be seen as equivalent to the optical spectrum of visible light . |
| 9 | This means that the study of the literary function of language can be directed towards the STYLISTIC VALUES associated with STYLISTIC VARIANTS , that is , with forms of language which can be seen as equivalent in terms of the " referential reality " they describe . |
| 10 | Language teachers can be seen as involved in very much the same sort of process — their principles correspond to hypotheses , their techniques to experiments . |
| 11 | So , even here the role of the sales forecast can be seen as crucial . |
| 12 | However , many occupations which afford little prestige or economic reward can be seen as vital to society . |
| 13 | Yeah okay I think to go across there , wo n't be so board room style , can be seen as confrontational . |
| 14 | Three of these in particular — Rastafarianism , variously defined as a " religion " or as a " movement " ( Gilroy 1987 : 187 ) , reggae , and toasting — can be seen as significant not only in providing a centre of attraction towards Creole-based culture for black ( and some white ) youth at various times , but also in providing access to and models of Jamaican Creole through social networks and relatively high media profiles . |
| 15 | For instead of aiming to divide the available explananda between two types of explanation , allocating some to holism and others to individualism , the extent to which either is applicable can be seen as relative to our interest in understanding the social scene . |
| 16 | Certainly , circulating in the world of the 1670s , the poem can be seen as important to groups of Protestant dissenters , offering them a visionary politics founded both on the scripturally based structure of history they favoured but also by appropriating and re-employing the scriptural Word which was a familiar practice of their own revolutionary writing . |
| 17 | Administrative and ideological superstructures assume more ‘ manageable ’ proportions if they can be seen as subordinate to a more or less universal classroom reality . |
| 18 | In one way , as Jameson suggests , this can be seen as evasive , a negation of art 's potential to confront the challenges of life and history . |
| 19 | The emphasis in human understanding can be seen as top-down , or hypothesis-driven , whereas computer recognition is usually bottom-up or data-driven . |
| 20 | If this is not the case , then opportunities are not only missed , but advancing years can be seen as synonymous with increasing loss , increasing isolation and increasing boredom . |
| 21 | John Mason in Tensions vividly describes some of the ( necessarily ) conflicting forces on teachers and suggests ways in which they can be seen as productive . |
| 22 | If we consider Out with respect to the conception of metaphor examined above , the desperate sputterings of the main character can be seen as active or ‘ verbal ’ in their metaphoric function : his discourse mobilizes and metaphorizes all others and has only tenuous links with any reality outside its field of operation . |
| 23 | Reliability I posed a series of questions about whether support from relatives can be seen as reliable , and what reliability actually means in this context . |
| 24 | The amount of work that can be done under a Green Form is strictly limited by the Legal Aid Board and so very little work can be done until Legal Aid is granted . |
| 25 | Ardoyne woman Marion Kane , who fought hard to turn the scheme into reality , said : ‘ This is a dream come true and goes to show what can be achieved if local people are determined to have what they deserve . ’ |
| 26 | It is interesting to note that birds and mammals can be grouped together in evolution terms , as both evolved from two distinct reptilian stocks along independent lines ; but both can be treated as similar from a thermoregulatory point of view . |
| 27 | The reciprocal of a persymmetric matrix is not in general also persymmetric ; e.g. unc A persymmetric matrix can be treated as symmetric for the purpose of reciprocation , but otherwise it is not special . |
| 28 | Which one it gets can be treated as random . |
| 29 | These can be scored as full points , or as combination of full or half-points which , taken together , make up three points . |
| 30 | But is there anything which can be imagined as existing in isolation and as possessing great value in such a case ? |