Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | However , as new viruses are being discovered all the time , no vine can be regarded as truly virus-free . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Each visible switch can be treated as input for one application , and output for the next . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If present value > present cost , the investment can be regarded as profitable ; otherwise , it is unprofitable . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | By the wave/particle duality of quantum mechanics , light can be regarded as both a wave and a particle . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Theft can be described as where one person unlawfully removes the property of another person with the intention of permanently depriving the owner of such property . |
| 21 | Thus such a complex can be described as a d 8 complex . |
| 22 | In essence , the figure can be summarized as showing processes within the physical climate system and within the biogeochemical one , these systems being interwoven by the global role of water and increasingly affected by human activities . |
| 23 | ( c ) The charge If the conveyance or transfer does not fall within the provisions of s83 , one is thrown back on the previous stamp duty position : ( i ) conveyance or transfer on sale This incurs a charge to ad valorem stamp duty at 1 per cent unless the conveyance can be certified at £60,000 or less ( see below ) ( Finance Act 1984 , s109 and Finance Act 1993 ) ; or ( ii ) conveyance or transfer " of any other kind " In such a case fixed stamp duty of 50p is payable unless the instrument can be certified as being one within The Stamp Duty ( Exempt Instruments ) Regulations 1987 ( SI No 516 ) . |
| 24 | ( 3.19 ) , so : The static position error for a system subject to a given load force can be calculated as follows : ( a ) calculate the effective load torque at the motor using Eqn . |
| 25 | The broad benefits of accruals accounting can be summarized as follows . |
| 26 | If Ms McCarthy thinks all gay men who have AIDS can be characterised as white and affluent , she is mistaken . |
| 27 | In so far as one regards sexuality as a biological means towards the reproductive end I think homosexuality can be regarded as deviant : it is a deviation from the heterosexual norm of most living things . |
| 28 | If control factors 1 and 2 are held constant the three-dimensional shape then developed in that part of their range can be drawn as in Figure 15.2 . |
| 29 | If deconstruction forms part of a more widespread attempt to decolonize the forms of European thought , from this perspective Derrida 's work can be understood as characteristically postmodern . |
| 30 | The problems of small group work can be summarised as follows : Organisation . |