Example sentences of "[pron] can be [vb pp] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our concern is rather to break away from the stale confrontation of reason and spontaneity which has persisted since the Romantic Movement , to invite the man of reason to admit that he never has had any ends which did not spring from his own spontaneity , and the intuitive and impulsive that no insight that flashes from theirs can be acknowledged as objective truth until it survives the ruthless justice of reason . |
| 2 | Only such a theory can generate rules which can be accepted as having the sort of ethical authority that is required for international law to be taken seriously as the ultimate arbiter of international relations . |
| 3 | There are entirely new powers hovering in the air , condensing in the future , lurking in the minds of man , which can be summoned as Prospero summoned Ariel ! ’ |
| 4 | The basis of the whole exercise is the assumption that , in any ordinary human language , the set of terms which can be glossed as " father " , " mother " , " brother " , " sister " etc. , because of the way that they are employed within the context of the domestic family , is somehow primary and basic . |
| 5 | Additional guidelines were also mentioned in the Law Commission Report which led to the enactment of UCTA ( Report No 69 , pp 71–73 ) , which can be summarised as follows : ( 1 ) Which party can most reasonably insure. ( 2 ) " Force majeure " clauses are prima facie likely to be reasonable . |
| 6 | Notes for Guidance were distributed together with the Parliamentary statement , indicating how individual schemes were to be prepared with the object of creating ‘ institutions which can be developed as comprehensive academic communities offering a wide range of disciplines and catering for full-time , sandwich and part-time students at all levels of higher education ’ . |
| 7 | However , when an electron changes from one allowed orbit to another one nearer to the nucleus , energy is released and a real photon is emitted — which can be observed as visible light by the human eye , if it has the right wavelength , or by a photon detector such as photographic film . |
| 8 | A neutron weighs about 1 billion eV : an electron weighs 500,000 eV ( which can be written as 500 keV , where 1 keV is 1,000 eV ) . |
| 9 | These stripes are an example of noise , which can be defined as random or systematic effects superimposed upon the image due to the characteristics of the imaging system and the electronic circuits used in storing , transmitting , recording or copying the image . |
| 10 | But is there anything which can be imagined as existing in isolation and as possessing great value in such a case ? |
| 11 | This has a generously wide and stable hull with a square tail outline , a large daggerboard and sometimes footstraps which can be fitted as the sailor improves . |
| 12 | 510–550 , which can be viewed as attempts ' to reproduce the same recognisable prototype' , thereby playing down the change that actually occurs . |
| 13 | In attempting to discern what distinguishes the notions of making and causing , it soon becomes obvious that there are many objects which can be conceived as being made but not as being caused : this is true , for example , of cars , boats , bread , plastic , in short anything that is brought into being by a process of fabrication . |
| 14 | This negative bias entails however that in the speaker 's eyes there are no real reasons which can be conceived as occupying the before-position which a reason normally occupies with respect to the action it calls for ; and since there is consequently nothing which can be situated in time before this action , the meaning of to does not apply in this use . |
| 15 | These , accumulating during this second period created an almost limitless reservoir of units and it is this reservoir which can be regarded as being identified with the state of the Created God at the time of the dawn of civilisation . |
| 16 | The figure for Britain falls within a band of figures for countries ( Australia , Canada , Ireland , Italy and Spain ) which can be regarded as relatively strike-prone , albeit the number of days lost in Britain is the lowest in the group . |
| 17 | What the preliminary or collateral fact doctrine seeks to do is to distinguish those elements within the bracket which can be regarded as conditioning the power of the tribunal to go on and consider the merits from the merits themselves . |
| 18 | The solution lies in removing from the fourth head the bulk of cases which are charitable in spite of the fact that a particular group is primarily benefited , namely gifts in relief of distress , and thereby making possible a more limited definition of the general sections which can be regarded as benefiting the community and a more sweeping rejection of gifts which though benefiting the community do not do so directly . |
| 19 | A paper published in Nature , for example , will contain a very small number of references , each of which can be regarded as highly influential on the authors , because that journal limits the number of references per paper . |
| 20 | Rather than pursuing the discussion at an abstract level , it seems sensible to give here a brief synopsis of a selection of French fabliaux which can be regarded as highly typical of the genre , and which represent a range of subtypes within the genre : tales of sensual appetite or greed , adultery and fornication , sexual naivety and sexual fetishism ; a tale of robbers , the macabre joke of the corpse that apparently either can not or will not lie still , and a lavatorial tale of turds . |
| 21 | Rosenthal ( 1983 ) draws together a number of criticisms of the argument which can be listed as follows . |
| 22 | Port Salut is a cheese which can be eaten as it is or used in cooking , where it adds a rich , buttery taste . |
| 23 | The secret of success here will be the basis of consultation and cooperation which can be seen as beneficial to both sides . |
| 24 | This means that the study of the literary function of language can be directed towards the STYLISTIC VALUES associated with STYLISTIC VARIANTS , that is , with forms of language which can be seen as equivalent in terms of the " referential reality " they describe . |
| 25 | This new identity will enable us to offer project and construction management services to clients through a consultancy business which can be seen as separate from the Group 's Contracting arm . |
| 26 | It is important to understand that it is never treatment in the abstract which can be described as ‘ extraordinary ’ , but only treatment in the context of the particular patient being cared for . |
| 27 | Many odours which can be described as ‘ disagreeable ’ and cause annoyance are a ‘ nuisance ’ in the ordinary meaning of the word . |
| 28 | The suppression of vice is therefore , Lord Devlin argues , just as important as the suppression of subversive activities , and just as it is impossible to point to an area of morality which should not be subject to the law , so there is no area of morality which can be described as ‘ private ’ . |
| 29 | This definition suggests that public law in a broad sense ( not confining ourselves to the law of judicial review ) concerns the activities of governmental bodies , by which we mean the legislature , the departments of central government and the very large number of bodies and agencies which can be described as offshoots of these departments ( these are often called ‘ fringe bodies ’ ) , courts and tribunals , local government , and , perhaps , the police . |
| 30 | Nisbet maintains that these five strategies represent the range of possibilities and that they can each be located on a spectrum , the poles of which can be described as ‘ hard ’ and ‘ soft ’ . |