Example sentences of "[modal v] be [vb pp] either as " in BNC.
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| 1 | There have been frequent demands for a single system and investigations of its possibility ; for after the introduction and spread of comprehensive schools it was clearly both inconvenient and divisive that pupils within the same school should be classified either as fit to take the GCE or fit only for the CSE . |
| 2 | Opening up the printing trade to women could be seen either as the unscrupulous recruitment of low-paid labour or as the expansion of opportunities for educated working-class girls . |
| 3 | Their affair could be described either as ‘ passionately discreet ’ or as ‘ discreetly passionate ’ , the relative anonymity of Wenlock Manor being preferred to the sodium-lit splendour of the Grand Hotel . |
| 4 | The date shown in cell C2 could be entered either as @DATE(92,7,12) or as @DATEVALUE ( ’ 12-Jul-92 ’ ) . |
| 5 | The resulting material could be used either as fuel or be biologically degraded by special engineered microorganisms to produce specific compounds for industry . |
| 6 | These exemptions may be granted either as block exemptions for certain categories of agreement ( e.g. co-operative research and development , exclusive distribution , exclusive purchasing ) , or alternatively on a case by case basis . |
| 7 | The decision of an expert may be known either as 'speaking " or " non-speaking " . |
| 8 | The situation can be seen either as successive waves of colonists from old established centres filling in the landscape with daughter settlements , or as a scatter of settlements , some of which develop while others remain unaltered . |
| 9 | This can be extended either as in fig. 5.5(a) or as in 5.5(b) : |
| 10 | In the neighbourhood of a given probe , X , the most distant neighbour can be defined either as that probe whose own neighbourhood shares the smallest number of probes with X , or/and as that probe with the smallest number of clones connecting it with X . |
| 11 | Sentence 9a , for instance , can be normalised either as in b or as in c : |
| 12 | Passive participles provide a rich vein of relevant instances ; it is a commonplace that these can be construed either as related directly to a verb , and hence in many cases referring to some assumed event , or as being adjectives expressing a state that have lost their verbal connexion . |
| 13 | This move can be interpreted either as yet another instance of poor central-local ties or as deliberate slowness so as to let more money flow into public funds . |
| 14 | They can be bought either as small , round discs , which are sewn into the corners of curtain hems , or in strip form , to be inserted along the whole length of the hemline . |
| 15 | The transfer of ideas between scientists , disregarding for the moment the nature of the medium used for exchange , can be described either as personal or as formal . |
| 16 | Wirbel ( UK ) supply industrial cleaning machines , and have launched two workshop vacuum cleaners which can be used either as ordinary cleaners , or as remotely switched dust extractors . |
| 17 | They can be administered either as simple tablets or as a special , long-acting injection . |