Example sentences of "[noun pl] can be [vb pp] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Classical economic theory denies that those characteristics can be taken as given . |
| 2 | Consequently , the overlaps can be seen as being ’ pre-processed ’ into the definitions of each word . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Each of these units can be attended as though it was a complete course in its own right . |
| 5 | Plums can be harvested as they begin to show colour . |
| 6 | Such pictures can be classed as ‘ tips ’ . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | These relationships can be viewed as belonging to one of three main categories : preferential , hierarchical or affinitive : |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Goatlings can be inseminated as well as goats which have kidded before . |
| 13 | Melodies can be reproduced as counter-subjects or descants in the treble , or as horn or cello sounds in the tenor , or as bass guitar or organ pedal in the bass . |
| 14 | One technique under intense development focuses on the way in which multimedia environments can be experienced as virtual worlds , to be explored and utilised by information users through direct manipulation and experience . |
| 15 | But unless elderly parents can be regarded as being , in the eyes of equity , significantly less worthy of protection than married women , it is difficult to reconcile the ‘ agency ’ approach adopted in Coldunell Ltd.v . |
| 16 | In the light of what he read to be the limitation laid down by the Court of Appeal , the judge concluded , at p. 663E , that ‘ little , if any , of the information sought by the administrators can be described as ‘ reconstituting the company 's knowledge . ’ |
| 17 | Where room is limited , many top fruits can be trained as cordons , espaliers or fans against walls and fences , and occupy very little ground area . |
| 18 | Entities and models can be considered as elements within the set that describes their assembly , and each of these geometric entities is considered to lie within a local space . |
| 19 | These three elements can be defined as follows : Economy : acquiring resources of an appropriate quality for the minimum cost . |
| 20 | Jonathan Stephenson 's ‘ Materials and Techniques ’ demonstration on pages 29–32 shows how markers and brush pens can be used as sketching tools , while in ‘ Talk of the Trade ’ on pages 40–41 Jackie Simmonds , Doreen Roberts and Brian Dunce put various art materials to the test . |
| 21 | For all practical purposes a specific exclusion clause which is rendered unenforceable under these circumstances can be regarded as void . |
| 22 | Outdoors , on all kinds of surfaces where the lines can be abraded as they are dragged , in a range of temperatures and exposed to ultra-violet rays , and often made wet from dew in the grass , all the lab tests become suspect . |
| 23 | Not many mountains can be described as beautiful , but Ben Loyal certainly can , compelling admiring attention by its graceful sculpturing and challenging appearance . |
| 24 | This phenomenon of switching rhetoric to deal with different argumentative targets can be seen as ‘ Taking the side of the other ’ . |
| 25 | The fate of stations can be taken as symptomatic of this trend . |
| 26 | Counts can be found as often in big houses on estates in the countryside as in their civitas — centres . |
| 27 | If this is not the case , then opportunities are not only missed , but advancing years can be seen as synonymous with increasing loss , increasing isolation and increasing boredom . |
| 28 | Cumulus Technology Inc , Palo Alto , California will announce Personal Touch , a full-featured Window manager for the Cumulus Alpha Terminal : it enables users to move , resize or select windows and other on-screen features by point and click or through hot key commands ; OSF/Motif or MS-DOS-style windows can be selected at set-up and it provides start-up dialogues , macro dialogues and exit dialogues to open and close applications ; open applications can be displayed as full-screen , stacked or tiled windows depending upon user requirement , Cumulus says . |
| 29 | Open applications can be displayed as full-screen , stacked or tiled windows depending upon user requirement , it says . |
| 30 | Leaf blades can be cooked as spinach , stems like celery . |