Example sentences of "[noun sg] can [adv] [be] [vb pp] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | No advantage for one side can ever be regarded as absolutely conclusive . ’ |
| 2 | On any footing , it must , in my judgment , be too broad a proposition to suggest that an owner who retains a piece of land with a view to its utilisation for a specific purpose in the future can never be treated as dispossessed , however firm and obvious the intention and however drastic the act of dispossession of the person seeking to dispossess him may be . |
| 3 | The 1988 Urban Programme can not be seen as dramatically different from the approach inherited by the Conservative government elected in 1979 . |
| 4 | Of , the ACIR study can not be taken as unambiguous falsification of Marxist and elite theory approaches and support for pluralist approaches The ACIR case studies , as discussed in the ACIR report , do indeed conform to the models of pluralism outlined in Chapter 5 . |
| 5 | The nature of this dilemma can best be described as follows . |
| 6 | Let represents permission as non-intervention , i.e. as not obstructing the accomplishment of the event expressed by the infinitive , and so the letting can not be conceived as coming before the event permitted ( indeed one can not say that one has let someone do something until they have actually done it ) . |
| 7 | Since the letting can not be conceived as existing before the event permitted gets under way , to is not used with let , just as it is not used with see because seeing can not be conceived as taking place before the first moment of the event seen . |
| 8 | An effect of loperamide oxide on intestinal secretion can not be excluded as this was not examined . |
| 9 | If however the means used is simply the issuing of a request as in ( 176 ) , then the causee can either be represented as being brought to perform some action as a result of the request ( get ) or as doing something under the influence or authority of the causer ( have ) . |
| 10 | So the crucial interpretive assumption of conventionalism , that our legal practice can sensibly be seen as structured by central and pervasive legal conventions about legislation and precedent , seems to be reflected in ordinary experience . |
| 11 | Tolstoy 's influence can not be over-estimated as Gandhi 's ready acknowledgment shows : ‘ For inculcating this true and higher type of Ahimsa amongst us , Tolstoy 's life with its ocean-like love should serve as a beacon light and a never-failing source of inspiration … ’ |
| 12 | Finally , inequality in political influence can normally be seen as deriving from either material advantage or high status , but it may be that political office may independently form the basis for gaining status and/or privileged life-chances . |
| 13 | The village can only be described as picturesque , the core built in the 13th century has narrow and sometimes steep and winding cobblestone alleys . |
| 14 | In my judgment , the Act can not be read as being constrained by the Rules to preclude an ex parte application . |
| 15 | The FIS and IS in this passage can equally be understood as " narrative report of speech act " ( NRSA ) ( Leech and Short 1981 : 323 – 4 ) which is a mode of speech summary less faithful than FIS and IS to the actual verbal structure of the original ; and the ambiguity is amplified by the suggestion in the third sentence that Rousseau 's text autonomously " yields " information without intervention from a critic — a sentence which could also be considered as a form of NRSA . |
| 16 | Such an image , unlike Paley 's comparison to a watch , makes clear the theist claim that the created universe can never be understood as self-supporting . |
| 17 | Cumulus can also be supplied as Thermguard wadding in roll form ( ideal for cot quilts , coats and sportswear ) or in Combustion Modified form to compile with BS5852 ( Source 2 ) . |
| 18 | The general gas law can also be written as |
| 19 | In his brilliant pamphlet , Europe and the Constitution after Maastricht , produced for the Society of Conservative lawyers , Martin Howe argued that the Community law can already be conceived as being on a higher level than national law : |
| 20 | He said ( at p457 ) : The law can therefore be summarised as follows . |
| 21 | The larger C. macracanthum can even be considered as it is relatively peaceful for its size . |
| 22 | The objective of this investigation can now be re-stated as attempting to determine the following quantities : |
| 23 | The fact that different dowsers can get very different results on the same site can perhaps be explained as the interaction between their own energy field and the field of the site , so that the dowsing patterns found can only have true meaning by looking at the dowser as well . |
| 24 | A divergent process can also be regarded as having the most undefined behaviour possible , since it forever performs internal actions in an effort to decide what its behaviour will be , but never makes any progress . |
| 25 | Such a process can not be described as a set of sub-activities connected by unidirectional communications . |
| 26 | The search process can then be defined as follows : |
| 27 | Lastly , the points used in the control group can not be regarded as suitable : electrical stimulation of needles only 2 cm from the real points is unlikely to be without some effect . |
| 28 | Compulsion can not be dismissed as incapable of bringing about change , after all we compel children to attend school between the ages of five and sixteen and it would be foolish to suggest that no genuine change takes place as a result . |
| 29 | The importance of his distancing from earlier critical theory becomes clear ; ‘ science ’ as a form of epistemology can not be dismissed as ideology but a tendency to ‘ scientism ’ can be treated as obscuring knowledge-constitutive interests and as potentially ideological . |
| 30 | It is also unique , so a later top can not be used as it is six inches narrower than the Series One . |