Example sentences of "[is] conceived as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One dubious consequence is that the short-term memory , of limited capacity compared with the virtually infinite capacity of long-term memory , is conceived as the internal stage on which exhibits from the store are manipulated . |
| 2 | ‘ Structural causality ’ , on this view , is something less than the rigorous determination of a specific effect ; instead , it is conceived as the production of conditions and constraints within which diverse , but not unlimited , alternative courses of political action and development are possible . |
| 3 | It is conceived as the first step towards a written constitution for the United Kingdom . |
| 4 | In the resultative sense of know , which can be found both in the non-past and the past ( I know/knew it to be true ) , know merely evokes a state of possessing knowledge , and this state is conceived as the condition for representing the infinitive event as a reality . |
| 5 | For He could swim across the river : This also involves the intra-infinitival virtual person occupying the same position in time as the actual person which specifies its rank contained in the auxiliary , but here the virtual person is conceived as the support of a potentiality and not of an actualization . |