Example sentences of "[pers pn] can [adv] [be] [vb pp] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they can also be seen as communicatively motivated , the realization of available resources to get a message across . |
| 2 | Although there are many types of dementia they can generally be defined as involving progressive and irreversible brain failure . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They can therefore be visualized as potential cellular automata capable of imprinting their pattern on the surrounding body fluids . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In the case of the terminally ill , their use is ordinarily uncalled-for , since they can readily be categorized as heroic , or extraordinary , therapy , imposing a further burden of discomfort on the patient with no foreseeable benefit in terms of increased comfort in the future . |
| 10 | Politicians and fortune-tellers can avoid being accused of making mistakes by making their assertions so vague that they can always be construed as compatible with whatever may eventuate . |
| 11 | But even though sponges can produce such miraculous complexities as this , they can hardly be counted as properly integrated multicellular animals . |
| 12 | Therefore it can either be seen as Susan 's capital or as a current account balance due to Susan . |
| 13 | In assessing whether there is likely to be prejudice and if so whether it can properly be described as serious , the following matters should be borne in mind : first , the power of the judge at common law and under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 to regulate the admissibility of evidence ; secondly , the trial process itself , which should ensure that all relevant factual issues arising from delay will be placed before the jury as part of the evidence for their consideration , together with the powers of the judge to give appropriate directions to the jury before they consider their verdict . |
| 14 | In assessing whether there is likely to be prejudice and if so whether it can properly be described as serious , the following matters should be borne in mind : first , the power of the judge at common law and under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 to regulate the admissibility of evidence ; secondly , the trial process itself , which should ensure that all relevant factual issues arising from delay will be placed before the jury as part of the evidence for their consideration , together with the powers of the judge to give appropriate directions to the jury before they consider their verdict . |
| 15 | Whilst , therefore , the criterion of the owner 's nationality is consistent with a fairly widespread international practice , it can not be regarded as forming part of customary international law . |
| 16 | ‘ After anxious consideration I have reached the conclusion that whatever Reg. v. Morris did decide it can not be regarded as having overruled the very plain decision in Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 that appropriation can occur even if the owner consents and that Reg. v. Morris itself makes it plain that it is no defence to say that the property passed under a voidable contract . |
| 17 | ( f ) Parker LJ stated : " whatever R v Morris did decide it can not be regarded as having overruled the very plain decision in Lawrence 's case that appropriation can occur even if the owner consents and … |
| 18 | From them it goes to manufacturing engineers , who , as like as not , discover that it can not be built as designed so far , and that the whole process must start again . |
| 19 | Note that it can not be formulated as ‘ always calculate proportions along the rows ’ ; this would only work if the explanatory variable was always put in the rows , and no such convention has been established . |
| 20 | The strength or his argument is such that it can not be dismissed as merely a distortion of the formula by which ‘ capitalism , is understood as the guarantor of ‘ bourgeois freedom ’ . |
| 21 | However , the bare infinitive is also found after how , and although this construction is far less frequent than the one with to , it can not be dismissed as nonce usage since fifteen cases have come to light thus far . |
| 22 | Since do evokes the very taking place in time of the infinitive 's event , it is obvious that it can not be conceived as arising prior to the latter , i.e. as constituting a before-position with respect to this event . |
| 23 | For these and other reasons , it can not be taken as axiomatic that the most extreme threats are the most effective . |
| 24 | Rather , it seems that , in its usage at least , it can best be seen as having been incorporated into the neoclassical compromise which has dominated most Western criminal justice systems . |
| 25 | It can also be played as football cricket where the ball is kicked instead of being hit with the bat . |
| 26 | It can also be viewed as combining elements of treaty law with territorial competence : the acceptance of the territory within the previously agreed boundaries incurs acceptance of any conditions that were negotiated at the time of the boundary settlement . |
| 27 | The setting might appear incongruous but it can also be seen as being particularly poignant . |
| 28 | Indeed , it can almost be read as inviting the supposition that industrial democracy , in that prescription , differs only in degree from current practices of consultation ; is to that extent already customary ; and is therefore unobjectionable and , as a ‘ democratic imperative ’ , inevitable . |
| 29 | It can therefore be regarded as divisible into two distinct parts , its intrinsic biochemical nature , which is its physical nature , and its ‘ goodness ’ , an abstract word provided by man millenniums after the event , to describe its quality . |
| 30 | The opening phrase " The poor young man is significant in this respect : since it can hardly be treated as Pemberton 's own self-pitying assessment of himself , it must be taken as the author 's narrative voice ; and thus establishes , from the beginning , a relation between the author and the main character which is at the same time sympathetic and distanced . |