Example sentences of "could be [vb pp] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus gall bladder muscle contractions could be recorded as changes in intraluminal gall bladder pressure . |
| 2 | The Committee also recommended that the law should be changed so that the husband could be registered as the father . |
| 3 | For example , in Smith , Kline and French Laboratories Ltd. v Sterling Winthrop Group Ltd. [ 1976 ] , it was held that coloured capsules for drugs could be registered as trade marks . |
| 4 | He states that the Causey Mounth , isolated from heavy traffic , could be developed as a commuter route for cyclists and for other leisure and recreational uses . |
| 5 | It is easy to see how the sleeping pill he had taken could be misunderstood as an overdose , but an airliner full of his friends would be an unlikely place for anyone to kill himself . |
| 6 | Inhibition has been seen as the insoluble problem of British movies : it could be represented as the source of their great potential . |
| 7 | NATO , when it was established in 1949 , could be represented as the revival of a war-time coalition rather than a realistic acceptance that Britain could no longer defend herself . |
| 8 | For example , the above concordance of the word ’ mortgage ’ could be represented as : mortgage [ lend lend lend own own own property property property advance advance advance authority authority pay pay money money increase increase insurance advice term ] |
| 9 | Because the range of possible adaptations was unlimited , the relationships could be represented as a branching tree-like pattern , with new branches being added whenever some totally new ( and unpredictable ) form of animal life was discovered . |
| 10 | Jacey ( London ) Ltd and Others ( 1975 ) , demonstrated clearly that showing a film on licensed premises could be indicted as an indecent public exhibition . |
| 11 | Superficially , this could be cited as evidence of progressive social change . |
| 12 | The great expenditure on education could be justified as a means to a thoroughly acceptable common end : economic growth . |
| 13 | But this did not prevent the Dominicans from setting out that war could be justified as a means of restoring order in situations of political or social disharmony , for instance between territories ( here we see the beginnings of the idea of the territorial unit and the defence of its justifiable rights ) or between sovereign rulers and their vassals ( if the vassal chose to rebel against his lord and thus fell into a state of disobedience ) . |
| 14 | His Lordship then considered whether the decision of the Court of Appeal could be justified as an exercise of review rather than appeal . |
| 15 | This leads Johnes to question whether raising academic standards for entry , in terms of A-level scores , could be justified as a satisfactory way of substantially reducing wastage rates , given the complex range of factors which are involved in predicting success in higher education , and that raising entry standards in this way would almost certainly bar students capable of obtaining a degree . |
| 16 | GNP could be vindicated as a measure of welfare by this finding . |
| 17 | The structure of own resources implied by " once and for all " does appear to resolve the future flexibility of revenue to meet changing circumstances , although it opens up considerable potential for dispute , as it implies part of the revenue from income tax could be designated as " own resources " . |
| 18 | At last , the dirty , happy , noisy child could be accepted as a good child . |
| 19 | The Government insisted its policy was a straightforward ‘ no deals with terrorists ’ , but the idea that ‘ no deals ’ could be accepted as a comprehensive response appalled me . |
| 20 | The human race could be accepted as a product of Nature 's development because that development was instituted by the Creator as an indirect means of achieving His goal . |
| 21 | A compromise was being hammered out in which the once-opposed concepts of design and transmutation would be synthesized so that the trends in the fossil record could be accepted as the gradual unfolding of a divine plan . |
| 22 | On rare occasions , too , handcuffs could be applied as a punishment . |
| 23 | These researchers attempt to provide simple rules which could be applied as productions at the tactical and even strategical levels . |
| 24 | It seemed to me that the discovery of Romans , Celts and Jews by the Greeks and their revaluation of Iranian civilization could be isolated as the subject of these Trevelyan lectures . |
| 25 | After reviewing the ecological model and resource management Chorley ( 1973 , p. 167 ) concluded that the control system ( p. 146 ) could be adopted as an appropriate focus and that this would clearly incorporate human activity and focus upon links between human and physical environment and that : |
| 26 | These , and other changes , all contributed to the doubling of productivity within those six years , and he is optimistic that it could be trebled as a result of the fast , electronic and computer assisted information that is now available . |
| 27 | And the requirements of democracy for full information could be quashed as a threat to national security . |
| 28 | It could be handled as a problem of vital statistics , housing administration , minimum wage legislation , child nutrition , national insurance , teachers ' salary scales , coal mining economics , feminism , social philosophy or pure finance ’ ( Stocks , 1949 , p. 102 ) . |
| 29 | A philosophical conservative , he would have sympathized with the view of his father , a defender of natural theology , that the life of science could be understood as a sacred duty . |
| 30 | Women 's lesser aggressiveness , for instance , which could be understood as a positive characteristic , is generally associated with deficits in socially-valued traits like competitiveness and achievement motivation . |