Example sentences of "can be considered to be " in BNC.

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1 Some religious traditions emphasise that certain events in the world can be considered to be God 's actions , and have claimed that what we know of God is derived from our interpretation of these events .
2 The structure of this process can be considered to be made up of three main parts :
3 As has been indicated , environmental scanning can be considered to be made up of three processes :
4 Panov then took the initial solution to be the totally general solution of Szekeres ( 1972 ) , which can be considered to be equivalent to the general solution given here by ( 10.16 ) .
5 The question as to what is , or can be considered to be , productive and unproductive labour , and productive and unproductive consumption , has been the subject of hot debate , going back to Adam Smith and beyond .
6 On the other hand , none of these items can be considered to be collective consumption , as are roads and street lighting , for example .
7 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 .
8 In this respect , although usually referred to as empirical , it can be considered to be scientific .
9 Money made from theft is not taxable , an Ontario court has decided , unless the thief steals on a regular basis and therefore can be considered to be in ‘ business ’ .
10 Some of these causes fall into an ‘ organic ’ category , such as delayed maturation , heredity , or age of the child , while others can be considered to be emotional in origin , for example parents ' management method , stress and disturbance in the family .
11 Having suggested that the 1960s were characterised by a series of discrete panics around moral issues , there is neither an account — other than an essentially economistic one — of the aetiology of such panics , nor an explanation of the way(s) in which they can be considered to be discrete .
12 Indeed , in some local areas , hospital provision was so low that ‘ it is doubtful whether some … can be considered to be offering a comprehensive service , ’ and for most people , most of the time , it is provision at the local rather than the regional level which really matters .
13 This is an exaggeration , but you should remember that the older the history book ( especially over 20 years ) the less reliable it can be considered to be , because ( i ) new evidence is always being unearthed ( ii ) all historians tend to write from within the perspective of their own times ( " every generation writes its own history " ) ( iii ) most professional historians update their own interpretations according to personal preference and in the face of scholarly criticism .
14 In this she can be considered to be the founder of district nursing .
15 It can be considered to be the microelectronic equivalent of a mainframe 's central processing unit ( CPU ) .
16 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 .
17 Thus , an image can be considered to be a mixture of components , each component representing variation at a particular scale .
18 The activity of the solvent can be considered to be equal to the mole fraction of the solvent x 1 .
19 All other established techniques involve the measurement of luminal acidity in response to varied stimuli , none of which can be considered to be truly physiological .
20 Any patient image can be considered to be composted of this normal image , upon which abnormal gut uptake is superimposed .
21 As such , the hand transcriptions can be considered to be a perfect analysis by the acoustic-phonetic component into a string of phonemic , mixed , or mid units , excluding any representation for word or syllable boundaries and excluding the effects of assimilation across word-boundaries .
22 Even if a database contains pre-existing works , it can be considered to be a new work of copyright if it is the result of selection and judgment .
23 Of course , where the money is no longer legal tender as seen with half crown coins and sixpences in R v Thompson [ 1980 ] QB 229 , or where it is being transferred because of its curiosity value ( Moss v Hancock [ 1899 ] 2 QB 111 ) , or because of its inherent value such as Krugerrands , in these circumstances " money " can be considered to be " goods " for the purposes of the statutory definition .
24 Nonetheless , care should be taken here to distinguish between words which can be considered to be merely useful information , from words which go to the identity of the goods sold .
25 It is otherwise where the employee can be considered to be part of the " brains " of the company , ie sufficiently senior for his acts to be regarded as those of the company .
26 Several of the sites recognized can be considered to be divergent forms of the consensus sequence which is recognized by Vmw175 .
27 The inconvenience which this causes can normally be reduced only by delaying the binding of serial parts until they can be considered to be no longer ‘ current ’ , or by ensuring that the time which they spend off the shelves ‘ at binding ’ exceeds by as small a margin as possible the time required physically to bind them .
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