Example sentences of "they 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 . |