Example sentences of "[pron] can be described [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Studies which use arousing stimuli as the items to be remembered often produce results which can be described simply in terms of von Restorff effects .
2 It can be described briefly by a single word — complicated .
3 Blinking groups with all unconscious rapid closing and opening of eyelids in humans and animals ; it can be described physiologically and there are causal laws to account for its occurrence .
4 Similarly , it can be described phonologically in terms of a set of sub-scales , in which the potential for lowering and backing will vary in degree for different subsets .
5 Despite the use of country risk analysis it must be conceded that competition for loan business has sometimes encouraged banks to ignore their own country or regional risk assessments and indulge in what can be described only as imprudent bank lending ( dealt with in Chapter 8 ) .
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