Example sentences of "could be [vb pp] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opening up the printing trade to women could be seen either as the unscrupulous recruitment of low-paid labour or as the expansion of opportunities for educated working-class girls . |
| 2 | It could be seen therefore as its own safeguard provided by the people against a particular form of exploitation of the people ; and hence as something to be excepted on pragmatic grounds from the general case for nationalisation or municipalisation . |
| 3 | At its lowest level , the beakers could be seen merely as souvenirs bought at the markets , which sprang up round the arenas and race-tracks at festival times . |
| 4 | Suppose , for example , that the indirect tax structure could be reformed by introducing differential rates of tax on different commodities ( so that , say , necessities bear a lower percentage ) , and that this could be done so as to make everyone better off ( or no worse off ) . |
| 5 | I can not imagine how it could be revised so as to be suitable for publication anywhere . |
| 6 | A concentrated assessment helped us focus on teaching procedures and materials more effectively and the problems we uncovered could be tackled immediately as we had direct access to the Subject Assessor ’ . |
| 7 | Such a story could be viewed cynically as making a virtue out of necessity and that is indeed what it does do . |
| 8 | which established that in the absence of a prohibition in the memorandum , the articles could be altered so as to authorise such an issue . |
| 9 | Members do not have to renounce their allegiance to other religions : they must simply pledge themselves to further the aims of the goddess , which could be summarised broadly as feminist , ecological and back-to-the-earth . |
| 10 | Sambrook makes the striking assertion that : ‘ The idyll of unspoiled Auburn could be read prospectively as well as retrospectively . ’ |
| 11 | ’ This could be read equally as ‘ Two huge bears were … ’ and the picture would not be essentially different . |
| 12 | Their affair could be described either as ‘ passionately discreet ’ or as ‘ discreetly passionate ’ , the relative anonymity of Wenlock Manor being preferred to the sodium-lit splendour of the Grand Hotel . |
| 13 | The date shown in cell C2 could be entered either as @DATE(92,7,12) or as @DATEVALUE ( ’ 12-Jul-92 ’ ) . |
| 14 | It appears to me that any articles published in a program probably would n't be the ones with , well shall we say ‘ less than polite ’ , references to other clubs/players … and even if they were they could be censored so as to be acceptable to the general public . |
| 15 | In most cases , it will not be difficult to see how the argument presented could be re-cast so as to be applicable to observation via the other senses . |
| 16 | The focus of attention is upon whether the national law could be interpreted so as to give effect to Community law obligations . |
| 17 | Perhaps one day the survivors could be brought together as some sort of retrospective exhibition — not impossible , especially if there is a will to mount such a show . |
| 18 | The resulting material could be used either as fuel or be biologically degraded by special engineered microorganisms to produce specific compounds for industry . |