Example sentences of "can be [vb pp] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While stabilisation of the production and price of essential commodities can be seen as legitimate functions of an international organisation , they inevitably involve purely commercial dealings which should not be carried out without the objective protection of an applicable legal system and the availability of a judicial or arbitral forum for the resolution of commercial disputes . |
| 2 | Let us think again about what is good in the dualist position : it captures the insight that two pieces of language can be seen as alternative ways of saying the same thing : that is , that there can be STYLISTIC VARIANTS with different STYLISTIC VALUES . |
| 3 | The development of an approach stating that the functionality of an item can be mapped on the geometric domain , leads naturally to the inverse argument that the domains themselves can be seen as logical spaces . |
| 4 | This can be seen as physiological immaturity or a deficiency in learning where the child has not learned the series of conditioned reflexes necessary for achieving bladder control . |
| 5 | Both the 1965 ‘ plan ’ and devaluation can be seen as technocratic measures , equally inadequate to abolish the competitive weakness of the UK economy — a weakness which is inscribed in its industrial structure , and the slow growth of productivity which is linked to the development of social relations within enterprises as well as the shortfall of investment . |
| 6 | These can be seen as practical methods of resolving the kinds of problems identified by the theory . |
| 7 | They can be seen as large-scale social variants of Piaget 's psychological processes of assimilation and accommodation ( see , for example , Piaget 1955 ) . |
| 8 | Both can be seen as genuine attempts at making something out of nothing , attempts at getting something even if it 's only a laugh out of a life which , in many cases , by 16 has already run into a collection of brick walls labelled ‘ unemployment ’ , ‘ shit jobs ’ and ‘ routine brushes with the Law ’ . |
| 9 | Walker ( 1975 ) has noted that mature students who did not satisfy the GER obtained significantly better degree results than all students while mature students who satisfied the GER did not differ significantly from the norm , and in seeking an explanation for this he points to the fact that those who did not satisfy the GER are on average somewhat older and can be seen as genuine returners , rather than students who have taken longer to meet the traditional qualifications . |
| 10 | Nevertheless such changes can be seen as consistent outgrowths of earlier party positions ; the Whigs and Tories of Anne 's reign remained the recognisable heirs of their namesakes of the Exclusion Crisis . |
| 11 | The central , distinctive idea here is that the rational expectations hypothesis can be seen as imposing restrictions on what we should observe in the world , and so the validity of rational expectations can be tested by testing for the validity of those restrictions . |
| 12 | These pressures against infant survival can be seen as early indications that fertility was an increasing burden in a changing society . |
| 13 | Counts can be seen as royal servants ; but at the same time they used their position to entrench their local power . |
| 14 | From a Weberian point of view the professions can be seen as occupational groups which have succeeded in controlling and manipulating the labour market in such a way that they can maximize their rewards . |
| 15 | Thus drugs can be said to act on people and relax them ( 26 ) or bring them around ( 27 ) ; information can put some people in a favourable position with respect to others ( 28 ) ; and pointers can be seen as guiding people ( i.e. as somehow active or operative ) in the proper discharge of their duties . |
| 16 | Since history is the study of the past , and all data ( that which is ‘ given ’ ) must be created in time , all databases can be seen as historical artefacts . |
| 17 | Indeed the recent evidence on plasmids can be seen as beautiful supporting evidence for the conjectures near bottom of page 182 ( which seemed a bit wild at the time ) . |
| 18 | These crimes can be seen as natural extensions of an ideology where the urge to individualise success and profit is the preferred avenue of advancement . |
| 19 | Personal , emotional conflicts can be seen as blocking creativity whereas ideas-controversies ( 'debates ' ) are stimulating , but in some highly creative organizations both types of tension are markedly present . |
| 20 | Early state intervention over factory hours , therefore , can be seen as public control necessitated by the blind self-destructiveness of capital itself . |
| 21 | Both parts can be seen as different versions of one another , but there is an absence of inner connection between them . |
| 22 | Particular subjects on the curriculum can be seen as different sub-cultures in which reality is variously reformulated . |
| 23 | " Stop talking " can be seen as plain common sense if everyone is talking at once , but if it comes from an over-talkative mother with a shy child it can have serious consequences on the child 's character . |
| 24 | Both can be seen as popular traditions in that they appeal to ‘ the people ’ , but while popular interpellations tend to absorb and neutralise potentially antagonistic elements , populism tends to develop them : |
| 25 | It is no surprise to discover its presence , since it must surely belong to a very early stage in the mental development of the human species ; indeed insofar as it represents one aspect of the principle of treating like as like , it can be seen as common perceptual property for all sentient organisms . |
| 26 | Where robots can be seen as potential replacements for people there are bound to be adverse reactions . |
| 27 | Thus the rational expectation hypothesis can be seen as supporting Friedman 's policy recommendation . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The only possibility left to him of safeguarding his own position , it seems , is to deny not only that " Men exist " but " ( Ex ) x is human " too can be treated as genuine propositions . |