Example sentences of "can [adv] [be] [vb pp] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought he played excellently in our Championship year and although his confidence went completely after the punch at Ibrox , he ca n't be blamed totally as the whole defence ( except Dorigo in fairness ) did n't exactly help matters . |
| 2 | But his whole account can perhaps be understood so as to avoid such objections . |
| 3 | But this it can not be said , can only be shown forth as in the suicide letter where Stavrogin writes ‘ My desires are too weak ; they can not guide me . ’ |
| 4 | It may make for easier government and public convenience to restrict the tradition of marching and assembling for protest , but it would be a dangerous and a foolish idea to believe that public protest can somehow be laid aside as belonging to a bygone age . |
| 5 | Congress alone has the power to decide whether the present laws can or can not be amended so as to carry out more effectively the objects of law . |
| 6 | Clearly the Order was prepared in some haste , but it can not be brushed aside as having been made out of an excess of caution . |
| 7 | It is arguable that the ratio decidendi of the case is limited solely to this principle , and can not be extended so as to include the neighbour principle . |
| 8 | Any such notice must state whether the current ( or preceding , when allowed ) reference period is to be shortened , so that it will end on the first occurrence of the accounting reference date , or lengthened , so that it will end on its second occurrence , but unless an administration order is in force the period can not be extended so as to exceed 18 months . |
| 9 | It has been pointed out by Gospel that ‘ managers ’ themselves can not be defined simply as being either employers or employees , since for the majority of them their role is ( simultaneously ) of a dual nature : |
| 10 | Integrity is flouted not only in specific compromises of that character , however , but whenever a community enacts and enforces different laws each of which is coherent in itself , but which can not be defended together as expressing a coherent ranking of different principles of justice or fairness or procedural due process . |
| 11 | If a theory is so vaguely stated that it is not clear exactly what it is claiming , then , when tested by observation or experiment it can always be interpreted so as to be consistent with the results of those tests . |
| 12 | The great spread of drug-taking among the young during this time can also be seen either as ‘ doing it for kicks ’ or looking for a road out of materialistic culture . |
| 13 | A career that spanned seven years at Oldham and four years with Hibs can now be seen only as preparation for the place where , and the time when , Goram would reach a higher plane of achievement . |
| 14 | When you come to harmonize these can then be treated either as chromatic appoggiaturas ( or non-modulating substitution notes ) , or as modulating accidentals . |
| 15 | The module can then be scanned again as described above . |
| 16 | Decisions about design , especially where these involve the introduction of technological innovations , can then be interpreted both as reflecting priorities within a society and as influencing the ways in which technological developments will affect that society . |
| 17 | It can then be located so as to provide convenient armchair control . |