Example sentences of "[pron] can [not/n't] be described " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are also important areas of knowledge and skill which can not be described with any precision either because of their nature ( e.g. " understanding " ) or because not enough is yet known about the factors causing difficulty to pupils . |
| 2 | Their inward warbling song , which can not be described , is unceasingly poured forth from noon to night , and is even continued throughout the night if they are placed in a room with lights , and where an animated conversation is carried on . ’ |
| 3 | The court appeared to disagree with Goulding J at first instance in that it seemed to say that confidential information which can not be described as a " business secret " ( in the narrow sense of that phrase ) could not be protected by an express clause . |
| 4 | However , unlike the women who can not be described with generous words the men are not all bad . |
| 5 | The Epistles of St Paul and the Apocalyptic Book of Revelation contain many high and mystical expressions of belief about Christ but they can not be described as ‘ records ’ of the kind which would compel rational belief . |
| 6 | It can not be described as a student-led movement , starting as it did on a wall located on a busy shopping street , rather than on one of the capital 's many campuses . |
| 7 | The approach I am going to adopt now applies to the present section only and acknowledges the fact that a superconductor is not an " ordinary " magnetic material ; it can not be described by a " magnetic " constant , by assigning to it a certain value for |
| 8 | The present was only twenty-four guineas , which we received immediately on leaving the King 's apartment , but the graciousness with which both His Majesty the King and Her Majesty the Queen received us can not be described . |