Example sentences of "could be interpreted [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could be interpreted as a shift towards other foodstuffs or as a worrying decline in the basic calorie consumption of the poor . |
| 2 | There is , however , one way in which A's intentions can be given validity at least in part , and it was this route which was followed : the senate ruled that a provision of this sort could be interpreted as a trust on B to make over A 's estate to C. The wording A actually used would be along these lines : fidei tuae committo ut Titium heredem instituas . |
| 3 | Timing his new album release in the US for election day could be interpreted as a sign of Ice Cube 's inflated self-importance . |
| 4 | Moreover , since the class groups which most of these youth represented were the working class — those most marginalised by dominant middle class culture — these sub-cultural activities could be interpreted as a form of rebellion , a way of fighting back . |
| 5 | This could be interpreted as a conversion of a modest farmhouse to the hostelry of the healing spa , c . |
| 6 | Unless the US , upon withdrawal , left sufficient indigenous military strength to enable south Korea to defend itself against any but an overt act of aggression , US withdrawal could be interpreted as a betrayal by the US of its friends and allies in the Far East and might well lead to a fundamental realignment of forces in favour of the Soviet Union throughout that part of the world . |
| 7 | A word pair ( a , b ) could be interpreted as a complex number ( representing a+ib ) , as a rational number ( representing a/b : see Knuth 1968 , pp. 2902 ) , or as an arithmetic interval ( representing the interval [ x ; a_ { x_ { b ] : see Knuth 1969 , p. 207 ; Nickel 1968 ) , but no conventional computers provide these data-types in hardware . |
| 8 | It must be clear that the spatial location identified by here in each of these expressions could be interpreted as a series of concentric rings spreading out from the speaker and encompassing different amounts of physical space , but the interpretation of the spatial range of the expression here on any particular occasion of use will have to be sought in the context of what the speaker is talking about . |
| 9 | The jury were asked to decide whether either or both of these actions could be interpreted as a threat . |
| 10 | Interestingly , in the light of increasing central ‘ controls ’ during the late 1970s and the 1980s , Alexander ( 1982b , p. ix ) , in what could be interpreted as a swing back towards an agency model approach , argues that there has been a ‘ decline in the autonomy and independence of local government … [ which ] constitutes a threat to the nature of our democracy and to the sensitivity and effectiveness of our public services ’ . |
| 11 | The cheque book , so conveniently left at the scene of the crime , could be interpreted as a genuine slip-up on his part . |
| 12 | It could be interpreted as a different commander view : there is no single commander responsible for this overall revenue account so it is not published . |
| 13 | The decision to dismiss Yakovlev caused strong criticism in the liberal press , which warned that it showed an increasing reluctance to brook opposition on the part of the Russian leadership and could be interpreted as a sacrifice to conservative forces prior to the forthcoming Congress of People 's Deputies . |
| 14 | Furthermore , in the structure there is a region of electron density which could be interpreted as a phospholipid molecule in the canyon , with its two acyl chains sitting comfortably in hydrophobic grooves and the scissile carbonyl carbon positioned in front of the active-site serine γ-oxygen . |
| 15 | This emphasis on political equality could be interpreted as a snub to the forces of violence ( the FLN ) , but since there were more than eight million Muslims and only one million Europeans it was hardly comforting to proponents of integration . |
| 16 | Lewis continued , throughout life , to be obsessed not only by his father , but also by the possibility that his life could be interpreted in a purely Freudian way . |
| 17 | ( 3 ) Although some of the sung texts could be interpreted in a serious way , the dramatic situation is such as to cast them in a comic , or even burlesque , light . |