Example sentences of "can [adv] [be] [adv] [verb] as " in BNC.
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1 | Concepts , on the other hand , can not be meaningfully described as " temporal " in this sense . |
2 | As we discussed earlier and argue later , this ‘ ideology ’ has deep biological and emotional reverberations and can not be easily dismissed as generated by propaganda or clever oratory . |
3 | What the data show is that the issue of sign universality can not be easily described as confirmed or disproved . |
4 | An item can not be significantly posited as existing in any ontological sense , without at the same time , out of every pair of contradictory predicates , one , and only one such predicate can be correctly ascribed to it . |
5 | b , Transactivation by VP16-Myc N and Max103-VP16 together with Max or Myc N. VP16-Myc N and Max103-VP16 activities can not be directly compared as their relative expression levels are unknown and VP16-Myc N+Max is antagonized by Max+Max in cells ( see text ) . |
6 | Hard hitting criticism and savage satire can generally be successfully defended as honest comment , so long as the exaggerations are not so extreme as to indicate malice . |