Example sentences of "it can [be] [vb pp] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or the nineteen thirties book is like one of the things that really inspired me because it showed me that you can do type that looks as though , I mean it can be composed as though in metal and not be boring — can not be , manufactured , you know hum drum , by varying the weights and by massing it , and also one of the things they do , that you see in those books that you did n't see in printing , was this size of type . |
| 2 | This proportion is called the relative abundance , and it can be expressed as follows : |
| 3 | Built by Tim Bryan , it can be raced as shown , fitted with an outrigger for stability and twin sails or assembled with just the end two of its three sections to give a 7.3m canoe . |
| 4 | We find social relationships simplified , while myth and ritual are elaborated … if liminality is regarded as a time and place of withdrawal from normal modes of social action , it can be seen as potentially a period of scrutinization of the central values and axioms of the culture in which it occurs . |
| 5 | In another way , however , it can be seen as responsibly encouraging readers to challenge for themselves cultural codes and established patterns of thought , including some of those which make contemporary history so intractable . |
| 6 | When the size of this transfer is compared with the volume of similar international transfers between rich and poor countries , it can be seen as being a very considerable effort ; and it imposes a heavy burden on the more advanced regions , especially on Serbia , which has an average social product per head below the Yugoslav average . |
| 7 | It can be seen as applying principles of ESP to the general curriculum of school education , presenting language as a service for the achievement of other than language objectives . |
| 8 | It can be seen as another outburst of dissatisfaction about the direction taken by the Cultural Revolution and the failure to eliminate what they saw as the rise of a ‘ Soviet Union type of privileged class ’ ( Brodsgaard 1981 : 753 ) . |
| 9 | Burgess himself stated that its creation was specific to one city — Chicago , however even then it can be seen as too simplistic . |
| 10 | If you wish to record a dialogue for use as above , it can be done as follows : record the whole dialogue for listening at normal speed , without any pauses between the various utterances ( if there are pauses you will be tempted to mimic ) |
| 11 | If it 's a big discharge which is perhaps on a Royal Commission standard and it is consistently turning out say a 30 BOD and a 40 solids then it can be regarded as harmful and one would press for improvement to be carried out . … |
| 12 | He exhibits a number of adjectives which differ in precisely the way required while maintaining the same or essentially the same lexical value ( we modify his examples slightly where it is possible to do so without damage to his case , so as to make the distinction sharper ) : ( 19 ) visible stars vs stars visible the only navigable rivers vs the only rivers navigable a handy tool vs are your tools handy ? guilty people vs people guilty As it happens , the examples which Bolinger uses employ words which can make the distinction a rather subtle one , with perhaps the exception of visible stars ( a group recognized astronomically ) beside stars visible ; but it is quite easy to produce further instances which seem to confirm his view : ( 20 ) a complaining visitor vs a visitor complaining the eligible bachelor vs the bachelor eligible In other cases , the divergence of lexical value between the two positions may be greater but still with the characteristic value for the former , and the occasion value for the latter : ( 21 ) the responsible man vs the man responsible a sorry sight vs the girl is sorry He notes that the acceptability of an adjective in pre-adjunct position may apparently depend on whether or not it can be regarded as indicating a relatively enduring characteristic of what is expressed by the noun , as in : ( 22 ) the faint girl vs the girl is faint an asleep man vs a man asleep This possibility of course depends not only on the adjective itself but also on the nature of the noun being qualified , so that " when one scratches one 's head the result is not *a scratched head but when one scores a glass surface the result is a scratched surface " . |
| 13 | If this occurs on or close to the skin , it can be observed as redness and it feels warm to the touch . |
| 14 | We must ask how attractive that ideal really is , how well the conception serves it , and whether it can be served as well or better through other conceptions of law . |
| 15 | This option enables you to obtain a listing of a single Design Change ( DC ) which is suitable for printing on A4 paper ; this is done by transferring the information to a VMS file so that it can be printed as required . |
| 16 | This option enables you to obtain a listing of a single Software Performance Report ( SPR ) which is suitable for printing on A4 paper ; this is done by transferring the information to a VMS file so that it can be printed as required . |
| 17 | This option enables you to obtain a listing of data relating to a specified range of Software Performance Reports ( SPRs ) ; this is done by transferring the information to a VMS file so that it can be printed as required . |
| 18 | This option enables you to obtain an alphabetical listing of all Software Performance Reports ( SPRs ) which relate to a specified range of module names ; this is done by transferring the information to a VMS file so that it can be printed as required . |
| 19 | This option enables you to obtain an alphabetical listing of all Software Performance Reports ( SPRs ) relating to a specified range of Issues ; this is done by transferring the information to a VMS file so that it can be printed as required . |
| 20 | This option enables you to obtain a listing of all Software Performance Reports ( SPRs ) which have been submitted and any Software Status Reports ( SSRs ) to which they relate ; this is done by transferring the information to a VMS file so that it can be printed as required . |
| 21 | This option enables you to obtain a listing of a single Software Status Report ( SSR ) which is suitable for printing on A4 paper ; this is done by transferring the information to a VMS file so that it can be printed as required . |
| 22 | This option enables you to obtain a listing of data relating to a specified range of Software Status Reports ( SSRs ) ; this is done by transferring the information to a VMS file so that it can be printed as required . |
| 23 | This option enables you to obtain an alphabetical listing of all Software Status Reports ( SSRs ) which relate to a specified range of module names ; this is done by transferring the information to a VMS file so that it can be printed as required . |
| 24 | However , it can be understood as recommending that one live in such ; way that the various aspects of one 's being are given the same degree of power as they have of innate authority . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , despite this work spanning almost half a century , it can be understood as forming a coherent and systematic theory . |
| 26 | Habermas calls action oriented to success ‘ instrumental ’ when it can be understood as following technical rules , and can be evaluated in terms of efficiency ( typically when operations are being performed on the physical world ) . |
| 27 | It can be justified as preserving the independence of the organisation , and the freedom of action to perform its functions . |
| 28 | SOME time ago , but not so far back that it can be dismissed as incidental , a belligerent centre-half , who needed very little encouragement in such nefarious matters , was instructed to discover how fast the visiting centre-forward could limp . |
| 29 | If the radiation has a wavelength longer than that of red light , it can not be seen , but it can be detected as infra-red and , with increased wavelength , radio radiation . |
| 30 | The ‘ facts ’ on which it is based are those of the unconscious emotional life of groups , and as such it can be entertained as an important contribution to the understanding of such feelings and actions in human groups . |