Example sentences of "they can be treated [prep] " 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 | One of the consequences of holding instructions in store locations is that they can be treated as data , and manipulated as such by the computer . |
| 3 | The physical implementation and application areas of microcomputers are thus different from mainstream computers , but at the instruction set level which we discuss in this book they can be treated as variations on the central Von Neumann model . |
| 4 | Science , as it has developed right across the board since the end of the sixteenth century , has operated with the axiomatic assumption that events in the material world , out there , external to human minds , are governed by regularities which are so coherent and consistent that they can be treated as " natural laws " . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They can be treated in the short term with an anti-male hormone injection from the vet and this will see them safely through difficult periods without the need for the unkindest cut . |
| 7 | Not being part of the Chewong social universe , they operate according to different rules but , interestingly , this does not mean that they can be treated in qualitatively different ways — such as be attacked . |
| 8 | Although these words refer to particularly Caribbean concepts , they can be treated by speakers as words of ordinary ( i.e. London ) English in terms of their pronunciation . |