Example sentences of "[conj] can be [vb pp] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moderator the beauty of the statement of faith er the beauty of , of a statement of faith that wins support or , or can be accepted as useful in many quarters is that it does n't er try to be too specific perhaps . |
| 2 | Similarly , the techniques and tools of structured systems analysis can be incorporated into the conventional approach or can be seen as forming part of an alternative methodology for applications development . |
| 3 | the relative informality and openness of literature teaching , its disinclination to impose judgements or dictate pre-given conclusions , itself constitutes a determinate discursive regime , constrained by its own rules , limits and positionalities : a regime that can be characterised as " liberal " in so far as it imposes itself not by insisting on the positional authority of the teacher , nor by compelling assent to a given and explicit curriculum of knowledge , but by inviting a voluntary recognition of the existence , purpose and value of a " subject " : Literature itself . |
| 4 | To deny that there is single quantity that can be characterised as arousal makes it much more difficult to generalize the results of research using any particular measure or manipulation of arousal to other situations . |
| 5 | ( iv ) Differently , it seems difficult to accept that consciousness is tolerably conceived when it is so conceived that it follows that anything that can be regarded as passing through certain sequences of causal or logical states is conscious . |
| 6 | Storms up to 170 nautical miles away can also been monitored in a special ‘ weather window ’ that can be displayed as required in a corner of the screen . |
| 7 | In summer 1984 a Commission scientist wrote in Coal and Energy Quarterly , a journal funded by and used as a mouthpiece for the National Coal Board , that ‘ there is no damage [ in British conifers ] that can be defined as new ’ and ‘ the chances of similar damage [ to that in West Germany ] occurring here is considered low . ’ |
| 8 | It is thus possible to conceive of certain functional properties that can be defined as being geometry controlling or geometry checking . |
| 9 | Robert Taylor , to whose seminal text Value-added processes in information Systems we shall need to return , provides a similar perspective : Executives or managers , especially those who are policy makers , have information requirements that can be characterized as follows : |
| 10 | Essentially , any attested forms that can be characterized as ‘ vulgar ’ or ‘ dialectal ’ are rejected , much as the apocryphal books of the Bible are rejected . |
| 11 | The attempt to impose the rational management of a whole society by means of complex organization produces a political system that can be characterized as ‘ bureaucracy writ large ’ . |
| 12 | Basically , a general program , supplied with the data layout and validation requirements of the study , guides the keypuncher page by page through the questionnaire form ( or similar document ) in a helpful way so as to facilitate error-free transfer of the information and to give immediate warning of any data anomalies that can be detected as well as providing a mechanism for correcting mistakes . |
| 13 | Furthermore , the separation of the great house from its neighbours , which had developed in Jane Austen 's lifetime , became the rule in Queen Victoria 's reign : ‘ A solitude in the centre of a wide park is now the only site that can be recognized as eligible . ’ |
| 14 | MACR does not form a word that can be Used as mnemonic , and Memory , Aims , Concentration and Review still lack one thing . |
| 15 | They may , however , also be used to generate solutions of Ernst 's equation that can be considered as possible to colliding plane wave solutions . |
| 16 | The second group of species common on Sheffield 's wasteland are the invertebrates that can be described as synanthropic , or culture-favoured . |
| 17 | The lasting impression of these accounts is that everyone agrees that there was a ‘ permissive age ’ , or a process of change that can be described as ‘ permissive ’ , but that no-one can actually agree what constituted ‘ permissiveness ’ . |
| 18 | That is , it is about works of a genre that can be identified as equivalent to the fabliau in French or in Anglo-Norman . |
| 19 | Faced with the problem of induction and related problems , inductivists have run into one difficulty after another in their attempts to construe science as a set of statements that can be established as true or probably true in the light of given evidence . |
| 20 | and added that the proportion of absorbed light that can be re-emitted as fluorescence is about 3% . |
| 21 | If the seller does not fulfil this task , the buyer 's right to cancel is extended indefinitely or until he takes action that can be construed as accepting the agreement . |
| 22 | With γ 2 assumed equal to zero , the full information value of can be written , as from equation ( 5.15 ) , and so the difference between and can be written as |
| 23 | All aggregates are made up of their constituent parts — for example , we see later that the total demand for a country 's output consists of the sum of individual demands and can be written as follows : where AD is total ( or aggregate ) demand , C is the sum of all individual consumers ' demands for goods and services , I is the sum of all individual firms ' demands for investment goods , C is the government 's demand for goods and services , X is the total foreign demand for the country 's exports and M is the demand for imports . |
| 24 | This derived from the confluence of several lines of clinical and experimental work and can be stated as follows : induction of a state of inappropriate immunity ( hypersensitivity ) to gliadin is a relatively frequent occurrence , genetically restricted . |
| 25 | The postulate put forward in this study is that the potential meaning of to before the infinitive is more abstract than that found in the spatial use of the preposition , and can be stated as follows : the possibility of a movement from a point in time conceived as a before-position to another point in time which marks the end-point of the movement and which represents an after-position with respect to the first . |
| 26 | Intensity is the magnitude of the perceived sensation and can be categorized as strong , moderate , faint etc. , whereas the character of an odour is the odour sensation which enables the nose to distinguish one odour from another presumably on the basis of prior knowledge . |
| 27 | The ideal model helps to differentiate the workforce ( by age , sex and colour ) according to how far different groups approximate to the model and can be seen as representing its exemplary qualities of commitment and reliability . |
| 28 | As our work has sometimes been interpreted as conflicting with that of Labov , it should be noted here that the above characterization of the speech community is fundamentally of the same type as his and can be seen as derivative from his insights . |
| 29 | Economic and social factors now loom large , and can be seen as being of greater importance than purely land use matters , though the courts would not necessarily accept such a line of reasoning ( as , for instance , when Lord Widgery held that the London Borough of Hillingdon could not impose a condition that the occupants of a private housing development should be people on the council 's waiting list ) . |
| 30 | These applications will be covered fully in Chapters 3 and 4 and can be seen as widening the range and scope of the school librarian 's tasks and in providing an up to date technological approach to school library management which can only serve to improve the status of the school librarian and further teacher/librarian cooperation . |