Example sentences of "could [be] [vb pp] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The end of British Imperialism could be traced as having occurred with the Suez Canal affair which led to the resignation of Sir Anthony Eden as Prime Minister . |
| 2 | This could be argued as promoting the crossing between different parent trees in successive seasons . |
| 3 | Using material from the Kwakiutl peoples of the north-west coast of America , Boas showed how the major stylistic features of their material culture , such as an extensive use of bilateral symmetry and the disintegration of animal representations into pattern , could be understood as emerging from the interplay of technology and constraint . |
| 4 | A further US$18,000,000 was paid by the USA into a security account in The Hague from which payments could be made as arbitrated by the Iran-US Claims Tribunal . |
| 5 | Clauses 5.9.6 to 5.9.11 could be amended as follows : [ 5.9.6 That each and every permitted underlease shall be granted without any fine or premium at a rent not less than the then open market rental value of [ the Premises ] [ that part of the Premises to be underlet ] such rent being payable in advance on the days on which Rent is payable under this Lease and shall contain provisions : |
| 6 | The clause could be amended as follows : |
| 7 | The clause could be amended as follows : To permit the Landlord at any time during the last [ 6 ] months of the Contractual Term and at any time thereafter unless the Tenant shall have made a valid court application under Section 24 of the 1954 Act or otherwise be entitled in law to remain in occupation or to a new tenancy of the Premises to enter upon the Premises and affix and retain upon the Premises in a position so as not to interfere with the Tenant 's or any undertenant 's business being carried on at the Premises a notice for re-letting the Premises and during such period to permit persons with the written authority of the Landlord or its agent at reasonable times of the day on reasonable notice to view the Premises |
| 8 | The clause could be amended as follows : |
| 9 | Finally , such an all-embracing solution could be presented as based on national , rather than personal , interests , for it appeared to represent everyone , not just certain social or economic sectors . |
| 10 | The scheme of the two subsections could be expressed as follows . |
| 11 | Some people might imagine that the three positions of theist , agnostic and atheist could be defined as follows : the theist knows there is a God ; the agnostic does n't know whether there 's a God or not ; the atheist knows there is not a God . |
| 12 | War communism could be defined as follows : firstly , requisitioning in the countryside ; secondly , strict rationing for the town population , who were classified into categories ; thirdly , complete ‘ socialisation ’ of production and labour ; fourthly , an extremely complicated and chit-ridden system of distribution for the remaining stocks of manufactured goods ; fifthly , a monopoly of power tending towards the single Party and the suppression of all dissent ; sixthly , a state of siege and the Cheka . |
| 13 | The initiative in theology in the closing years of Troeltsch 's life was already passing to those who held that it was not , and that the whole direction of thought which could be seen as culminating in him needed to be put into reverse . |
| 14 | Reading this group of sonnets is to be reminded of the noble conclusion to the first book of Bacon 's Advancement of Learning : In describing his Friend as my love or He the Poet could be seen as using the third-person form in order to place him apart , perhaps to place him outside the sphere of time 's influence . |
| 15 | They could only accept evolution if it were a process that gave rise to regular , predictable developments in accordance with some preordained plan that could be seen as originating in the mind of God . |
| 16 | At that time local authorities could be seen as acting in the interests of the majority — the phrase from the last paragraph of the 1978 extract from the Library Association record above ( omitted from the 1989 policy statement ) ‘ either on grounds of … a desire to ‘ protect ’ public morality' suggests so . |
| 17 | The first is that the act of self-poisoning may have been rewarding in so far as any subsequent positive changes could be seen as resulting from the act itself . |
| 18 | By analogy , Riley 's paintings could be seen as operating within similar parameters : the coincidence of colour with a certain geometrical ordering re-enacts the function of myth . |
| 19 | For in accepting that age and , more importantly , insanity could influence the degree of individuals ' responsibility for their actions it was also accepting that in some cases , and to some extent at least , human actions could be seen as determined . |
| 20 | The concept of professional autonomy could be seen as militating against recognition of the need to manage motivation or to engage in systematic development . |
| 21 | The aphids of Chapter 10 could be seen as paying out nectar to hire professional bodyguards . |
| 22 | Papal troops in south Italy could be seen as protecting Frederick II 's rights . |
| 23 | On the level of social meaning , the transition could be seen as associated with the move from a period dominated by the modernist critique of mass culture to the period of ‘ post-modernism ’ . |
| 24 | Applications to the panel by auditors might be equally rare , since these could be seen as acknowledging a failure to establish an effective ( and durable ) professional relationship . |
| 25 | The judges were certainly aware that with such an arrangement , they could be seen as having ignored the merits of the designs and the practicalities of execution , and attempted to explain their position in their report to Hall . |
| 26 | He also could be seen as having secured the continuation of his private office at No. 4 Parliament Street , when the block of buildings between King Street and Parliament Street was omitted from the Act . |
| 27 | This applies equally to the way we use which could be seen as having three distinct roles , depending on the learner level it is used at . |
| 28 | Similarly , one could not satisfactorily analyse modalism in rock music without also dealing with the decline of modal folk song , in its traditional social contexts ; the urban folk revival ; the use of modal techniques by elite composers , and the ‘ discovery ’ of modal medieval and renaissance music ; the commodification of major-minor tonality by Tin Pan Alley and Hollywood , against which modalism could be seen as ‘ exotic ’ or ‘ primitive ’ ; the internationalization of capital bringing , through American cultural imperialism , the influence of modal Afro-American musics which , at the same time , could be seen as offering a potential for critique vis-à-vis the dominant , major-minor musical language ; and so on . |
| 29 | The graphic EQ offers another range of tone control over the Carvin and , being switchable , could be seen as adding an extra channel . |
| 30 | This could be explained as resulting from the dynamical drag of the surrounding gas provided that the galaxies start off with individual dark haloes . |