Example sentences of "[noun] can be [vb pp] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way the two types of discourse provide a context of meaning for the participants such that kinship relations as practical action can be considered as meaningful . |
| 2 | Classical economic theory denies that those characteristics can be taken as given . |
| 3 | Usually one side of the river will present all uphill into-wind slopes , while the other side can be dismissed as being unsuitable except when landing parallel to the river . |
| 4 | Consequently , the overlaps can be seen as being ’ pre-processed ’ into the definitions of each word . |
| 5 | Looking into the Whitehall Daguerreotype again with a microscope , the three blurs of grey on a white facade can be read as WRIGHT 'S COFFEE AND CHOP HOUSE . |
| 6 | In an extensive review arising from IGCP 61 Kidson ( 1982 ) has concluded that the search for a universal eustatic curve should be regarded as over ; that regional differences in changes in the geoid mean that eustatic sea level curves can have only regional validity ; and that no part of the earth 's crust can be regarded as wholly stable . |
| 7 | Both holders of government stock and dealers in it know that prices fluctuate and that capital losses can be expected as well as capital gains . |
| 8 | However , as new viruses are being discovered all the time , no vine can be regarded as truly virus-free . |
| 9 | Each of these units can be attended as though it was a complete course in its own right . |
| 10 | The main findings of this study can be summarised as follows : ( 1 ) patients with adenomatous colorectal polyps generally showed a significant increase in the cytoproliferative activity of the most superficial portions of the rectal crypts compared with controls ; ( b ) this difference was primarily the result of an appreciable upward shift of replicating cells in patients destined to suffer from recurrent polyps ; the proliferative pattern of patients whose polyps did not recur after initial polypectomies were essentially similar to those of controls ; ( c ) the proliferative pattern of flat rectal mucosa did not change appreciably during the follow up period regardless of whether polyps recurred or not . |
| 11 | Each visible switch can be treated as input for one application , and output for the next . |
| 12 | The gourd-breasts and the leather-thonged sorcerer 's switch can be seen as referring to indigenous culture , as can the snakes ' heads with which the yokes of her skirt appear to terminate . |
| 13 | The dilemma can be expressed as follows : the more accessible teachers seek to make themselves to all their pupils as individuals , the less time they have for direct , extended and challenging interaction with any of them ; but the more time they devote to such extended interaction with some children , the less demanding on them as teachers must be the activities they give to the rest ; and the less demanding an activity is of their time and attention as teachers , the more the likelihood that the activity in question will demand little of the child . |
| 14 | Plums can be harvested as they begin to show colour . |
| 15 | If present value > present cost , the investment can be regarded as profitable ; otherwise , it is unprofitable . |
| 16 | In his paper on ‘ Mourning and Melancholia ’ Freud established that in depression following the loss of a love-object the ego absorbs that object into itself so that the exaggerated self-reproaches , self-deprecation and self-hatred which typify the condition can be understood as sadistic drives which have been unconsciously directed on to the object whose ‘ shadow has fallen on the ego . ’ |
| 17 | Such pictures can be classed as ‘ tips ’ . |
| 18 | Brixton , like the rest of the country has its take away shops , only here the service includes jewellers , Burtons , Woolworths , and camera shops ; in fact most shops can be regarded as ‘ in the scheme ’ . |
| 19 | These relationships can be viewed as belonging to one of three main categories : preferential , hierarchical or affinitive : |
| 20 | This has a methodological implication as well : all too often it is assumed that Foucault 's stress on disruption can be taken as equivalent to randomness , as we have seen with Perry Anderson . |
| 21 | The point is that an equation can be interpreted as stating this : given each of a number of possible extents to which specified things possess certain different general properties , it is then the case , despite accompanying conditions and events , that another specified thing would still possess another general property to one of a number of possible extents . |
| 22 | Each suffix can take values 1 , 2 or 3 , corresponding to the three coordinate directions ; a vector equation can be read as any one of its component equations by substituting the appropriate value for the suffix common to every term ; and the repetition of a suffix within a single term indicates that that term is summed over the three values of that suffix . |
| 23 | The alternative — faceted classification -requires only the listing of simple one-concept subjects ( from which notation for compound subjects can be constructed as necessary ) and permits much more succinct schedules . |
| 24 | By the wave/particle duality of quantum mechanics , light can be regarded as both a wave and a particle . |
| 25 | I shall argue that Viennese modernism can be seen as in some sense a ‘ Baroque ’ modernism which seems largely to have run counter to the Enlightenment project . |
| 26 | This impression of the object of have being represented as completely submissive to the will of the person referred to by the subject explains moreover the use of the bare infinitive with this verb : this exercise of control by the causer over the causee can be seen as persisting throughout the realization of the infinitive event . |
| 27 | Under the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 , databases can be classified as either ‘ literary works ’ , in the form of a ‘ table or compilation ’ ( s.3(1) ) ; or as a ‘ cable programme service ’ ( s.7(1) ) , depending on whether the nature of the service is interactive . |
| 28 | Fortunately , all such waves can be expressed as the sum of a constant term and an infinite set of harmonic sinewaves , the sinewave of lowest frequency in the harmonic set being known as the fundamental and having the same period as the original nonsinusoidal wave . |
| 29 | My term can be seen as being analogous to the propensity to unproductive consumption , but this is not the same as the Keynesian propensity to consume . |
| 30 | So we must begin our inspection of this conception by asking how far our legal practice can be understood as exhibiting conventions of the required sort . |