Example sentences of "[pron] can [adv] [be] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Section 1(2) of the Patents Act 1977 contains those which can generally be classified as coming within the scope of copyright law or the law of confidence and , in that context , computer programs are of particular interest . |
| 2 | Research and theory on the origins of schizophrenia have developed simultaneously in a number of very different directions which can broadly be categorised as genetic , organic and psychosocial . |
| 3 | A second instance of political change which can scarcely be regarded as minor is the rise and fall of the fascist regimes in Europe . |
| 4 | This conflict , it would seem , has come about because , broadly speaking , the human race has divided in its response to the vital choice that has been introduced in the foregoing paragraphs , and which can best be summarised as being between the following two major propositions . |
| 5 | those which employ a method or means of combat the effects of which can not be limited as required by this Protocol ; and consequently , in each such case , are of a nature to strike military objectives and civilians or civilian objects without distinction . |
| 6 | Every day Theo hears calls for help and especially for pastors for the infant churches , which can not be met as the personnel are not available . |
| 7 | However , a new approach to the question of remedies available for breach was occasioned by Diplock LJ in Hong Kong Fir Shipping Co Ltd v Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd [ 1962 ] 2 QB 26 ( at p70 ) : There are … many contractual undertakings of a more complex character which can not be categorised as being " conditions " or " warranties " , if the late 19th century meaning adopted in the Sale of Goods Act , 1893 , and used by Bowen LJ in Bentsen v Taylor , Sons & Co be given to those terms . |
| 8 | The functions which can later be distinguished as those of ‘ priest ’ , ‘ prophet ’ or ‘ bard ’ — and in more modern terms ‘ historian ’ or even ‘ scientist ’ — were often originally exercised by the same individuals or groups of individuals . |
| 9 | It was a trip which can never be repeated as nearly all lines are gone . |
| 10 | The answer is ‘ yes ’ : a recent article , drawing on Eusebius ' Life of Constantine , seems to show without doubt that it was Constantine who introduced this law : Eusebius describes measures implemented by Constantine which can only be understood as referring to this law . |
| 11 | The bare infinitive in exclamations evokes therefore an incidence of the infinitive 's event to its support which can only be represented as potential since the speaker feels it has little or no chance of being real , of finding a place in real time . |
| 12 | But it may also be an uneasy truce , which can only be sustained as long as certain questions are not asked . |
| 13 | Devereux considers that , at root , there is a substratum which can only be described as consciousness , that this is a field effect and that the brain simply processes the consciousness in a similar way to that in which a television set processes a transmitted signal . |
| 14 | From this stage I proceeded to a more general sense of superiority , which can only be described as moral . |
| 15 | He had piss-holes as eyes , foul breath , decaying teeth and an attitude towards Mandeville which can only be described as servile . |
| 16 | The result is a perfect reproduction of your artwork in etch-resistant ink on your p.c.b. , which can then be etched as normal . |
| 17 | Their relation to the totality emerges not through the form of synecdoche — the typical detail which can then be generalized as metaphor — but should , according to Lukács , be drawn out through the narrative which inscribes and extends a connection between such moments of empirical reality and the general laws of history as a totality . |
| 18 | Five to ten sub-systems is accepted as the normal range , which can then be decomposed as required to show lower-order activities . |
| 19 | First were the self-governing colonies with large white settler populations which can almost be regarded as independent : Cape Colony , Natal , Australia , New Zealand and Canada . |
| 20 | If we turn to volcanic deposits , which can hardly be regarded as exceptional in earth history , we can find many examples of great thicknesses accumulating very rapidly indeed . |
| 21 | In these circumstances one is predisposed to seek for a limitation which can fairly be read as implicit in the scheme of the legislation . |
| 22 | Today , rambutans ( Nephelium lappaceum , Sapindaceae ) are distributed this way , growing up around deserted encampments of forest people in the Malay Peninsula , and several other fruits gathered there can only be swallowed as the flesh is either difficult to remove or the seeds are too fiddly to extract ( as in blackberries , blackcurrants and tomatoes in modern society sewage farms raise good tomato plants ) : for example the mata-kuching ( Dimocarpus longan ) and the rambai ( Baccaurea motleyana , Euphorbiaceae ) . |
| 23 | But they can also be seen as communicatively motivated , the realization of available resources to get a message across . |
| 24 | Although there are many types of dementia they can generally be defined as involving progressive and irreversible brain failure . |
| 25 | A problem with this idea is of course that most dreams are not remembered , so that even if solutions to problems are achieved during dreams they can not be regarded as adaptive , unless we are to believe that these solutions are somehow incorporated unconsciously . |
| 26 | For if such complexes ' are to play the role of particulars , they can not be regarded as being logically on a par with single qualities . |
| 27 | In the absence of this information , it is sound practice to make a secondary arrangement of key words ; they can not be left as they are above , for they make sense only as their interrelation is explicitly shown . |
| 28 | But it , as I have suggested , the structures of identity formation at work here are fundamental to our existing cultural forms , they can not be considered as stemming only from the psychoanalytic tradition . |
| 29 | They can therefore be visualized as potential cellular automata capable of imprinting their pattern on the surrounding body fluids . |
| 30 | Theories can be conclusively falsified in the light of suitable evidence , whereas they can never be established as true or even probably true whatever the evidence . |