Example sentences of "[noun pl] can [adv] [be] [vb pp] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The meanings of words can also be represented as textual definitions within an ordinary dictionary , so a third question may therefore be : |
| 2 | Public sector organizations can generally be distinguished as having hierarchical structures composed of responsibility centres : units , sections , departments and divisions . |
| 3 | These worries can now be seen as exaggerated . |
| 4 | In the latter two cases the probe distances should be interpreted just as dissimilarities since the probes can not be considered as points in comparison with the clones . |
| 5 | Mr Corker said : ‘ Staff from the ministries can not be called as references but we do have letters of recommendation from them and the Department of the Environment has these in our appeal . |
| 6 | It is only as economic circumstances have eased , for most people at least , that the expressive aspects of relationships have become more prominent , although whether family relationships can ever be regarded as ‘ purely ’ expressive is very questionable ( ibid . |
| 7 | Further algebraically general solutions without curvature singularities can easily be constructed as will be indicated in Section 17.2 . |
| 8 | Such training sequences can also be included as an optional part of the program , which should also contain ‘ help ’ routines to feed information to the teacher who is having difficulties . |
| 9 | The motion said it believed ‘ Downing Street 's message to the Scots can best be summarised as ‘ Let them drink whisky ’ ' . |
| 10 | These primary silhouettes can thus be considered as two-dimensional lamina representations drawn on the orthogonal planes of the geometric domains . |
| 11 | These periods can crudely be labelled as those of modernization ( 1966–76 ) , centralization ( 1975–85 ) and fragmentation ( 1983 onwards ) . |
| 12 | When attention moves from behaviour at the individual to the organisational level , it is argued that since organisations are not unitary actors , but are made up of individuals and groups with competing interests and objectives , companies can not be understood as pursuing a single goal , but rather a range of conflicting goals . |
| 13 | Any 3GL functions can also be called as desired , but all object-processing is performed by SmartGL . |
| 14 | The component subskills can then be described as being automatised — the movements occur as the position of the pen demands them , without the writer having consciously to calculate them . |
| 15 | The size of such settlements can easily be overestimated as the number of buildings must be viewed as a factor of the length of time the site was occupied and the frequency with which buildings were replaced . |
| 16 | These offences can not be regarded as trivial because sometimes they result in an employee 's or innocent bystander 's death , serious injury , or permanently impaired health . |
| 17 | In general the move towards wage supplementation in the rural South and East enabled the old Poor Law just about to cope with the problem of subsisting the poor in a period of unprecedentedly high bread prices , during which some years can only be described as desperate . |
| 18 | The excursions of the domains can thus be considered as simple flat surfaces existing in the local orthogonal plane . |
| 19 | Thus herbage seeds can not be sown as early or as late in the year as the cereals so frequently used as cover or nurse crops . |
| 20 | Gorillas , dolphins and whales certainly have a reputation for being peace-loving and harmless to humans but , on the other hand , tigers and polar bears are both well known as potential man-eaters , while elephants can hardly be described as innocuous , even if they prefer to mind their own business most of the time . |
| 21 | The two readings can then be represented as follows : |
| 22 | An important corollary of the present discussion is that circuit components of centimetre dimensions can properly be regarded as discrete until the frequency gets as high as about 300MHz ( recall discussion of this topic near the beginning of section 4.3 ) . |
| 23 | The health conditions of the vast majority of Salvadoreans can only be described as critical and it is women who must bear the brunt of caring for the ill . |
| 24 | Grace in motion is the quality that is shared by professional dancers and thoroughbred horses , for dancers can also be described as thoroughbred — the classical ballet technique , especially , brings beautiful refinement to dancers ' bodies . |
| 25 | While pluralist writers can not be interpreted as suggesting that there is a perfect or even extensive distribution of political power through the mechanism of interest participation in government decision making , — ’ what pluralists do argue is that more groups are involved in making decisions than is suggested by Marxist and elitists , who claim that a particular class or group has a monopoly of influence . |
| 26 | Sideshoots can thus be treated as well . |
| 27 | So the principles can not be regarded as being in any doubt . |
| 28 | ‘ 1991s figures can not be viewed as satisfactory ’ said Sir Denys , ‘ but it was a solid performance … ’ . |
| 29 | In its first year of rail operations based solely on the seven-mile Paignton to Kingswear line , these figures can only be regarded as poor . |
| 30 | It is still maintained by the sophisticated falsificationist that theories can be falsified and rejected while it is denied that theories can ever be established as true or probably true . |