Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] be describe [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Marketing Mix may effectively be described and analysed on the basis of the Four P's . |
| 2 | Without doubt , the proposals may properly be described as controversial . |
| 3 | Although automatic and semi-automatic high-bay warehousing systems are being built abroad at an ever increasing rate — some 2,000 have been constructed in Japan in the last fifteen years — the rate of development in the United Kingdom may only be described as slow . |
| 4 | People in those categories certainly should not be described as rich . |
| 5 | It will even take account of the fact that some relevant objects may not be described as ‘ wooden ’ at all , but as being made of ‘ beech ’ , ‘ mahogany ’ , ‘ deal ’ or the like . |
| 6 | Most of the houses outside towns might justly be described as ‘ peasant ’ accommodation , for Sussex is one of the few English counties where the term had a real and continued significance . |
| 7 | It was for this reason that it was made clear that the negotiations leading to a settlement might best be described as bargaining hence suggesting a somewhat aggressive method of resolving the matter . |
| 8 | A cynical observer might argue that the assembly of a £5 million bid might easily be described as ‘ something being done ’ , and the failure of the attempt can hardly be viewed as a positive step , even if the debate on the estate 's future is now reopened . |
| 9 | Exploratory statistics might reasonably be described as highly systematized common sense . |
| 10 | The circumstances might well be described as ‘ the bank leaving it to the husband to obtain the presence of the wife at the bank for the purposes of signing the documents . ’ |
| 11 | In many ways , Hegel appears to be the complete opposite of Schleiermacher — whose relations with him in the years that they were colleagues in Berlin might charitably be described as strained . |
| 12 | ( 2 ) That no stay was to be imposed unless a defendant established on the balance of probabilities that , owing to the delay , he would suffer serious prejudice to the extent that no fair trial could be held , in that the continuation of the prosecution amounted to a misuse of the process of the court ; that , in assessing whether there was likely to be prejudice and if so whether it could properly be described as serious , the court should bear in mind the trial judge 's power at common law and under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 to regulate the admissibility of evidence , the trial process itself which should ensure that all relevant factual issues arising from delay would be placed before the jury as part of the evidence for their consideration , and the judge 's powers to give appropriate directions before the jury considered their verdict ; and that , accordingly , the judge 's decision to stay the proceedings had been wrong , since such delay as there had been was not unjustifiable , the chances of prejudice were remote , the degree of potential prejudice was small , the powers of the judge and the trial process itself would have provided ample protection for the police officer , there was no danger of the trial being unfair and in any event the case was not exceptional so as to justify the ruling ( post , p. 19B–E ) . |
| 13 | During the 1970s , some political observers , recognising the unequal participation and influence of certain interests in public policy making , began to argue that British politics could better be described as " corporatist " rather than pluralist . |
| 14 | If the situation in the United States is less than perfect , then the state of affairs on the other side of the Panama Canal could only be described as disastrous . |
| 15 | She spoke in a curiously musical , richly accented way with a certain pattern that could only be described as antique — as though the speech mannerisms of the local dales folk of two centuries ago had been preserved within Hannah . |
| 16 | Of all the films Ocean might 've obtained the licence to , they chose one that could only be described as mediocre . |
| 17 | Frans Hals had painted portraits of girls who could only be described as plain , but something lively and piquant redeemed them . |
| 18 | Jan Wolf , husband of Dobroslawa Miodowicz-Wolf , who was Al Rouse 's partner on K2 in 1986 and who , like him , so tragically died , managed an ascent of Lubyanka in conditions that could only be described as green . |
| 19 | There a reception committee awaited her , at the head of which was a young man who could only be described as beautiful . |
| 20 | In Brighton at nine-thirty on this Tuesday morning in October , the singing could only be described as ‘ tentative ’ , not at all like the rendering of ‘ Land of Hope and Glory ’ which invariably follows upon the Leader 's speech on the Friday afternoon . |
| 21 | Schubert and Schumann could whimsically be described as poets , but calling Horowitz a poet is as silly as calling Lawrence Olivier a poet , or for that matter the builders who followed Wren 's drawings and erected St. Paul 's Cathedral . |
| 22 | And the conditions under which they are kept could justly be described as intolerable in any society . |
| 23 | While nothing new has been recorded ( and conditions could generally be described as lean ) , it is worth noting for future reference that the following were climbable : |
| 24 | He could not be described as handsome , and , in later years , with his weight fluctuating to in excess of fifteen stone through his appetite for junkish food between pictures , he showed signs of a middle-aged spread ; not being tall , at five feet , nine inches , it tends to be obvious . |
| 25 | Secondly , we set about drawing attention , nationally and locally , to a threatened church that simply could not be described as being redundant , having a weekly congregation of over 1,500 worshippers ! |
| 26 | Although the present time could not be described as ‘ religious ’ , there is a great interest in mythology , magic , the occult , eastern philosophies and religions , and the supernatural — everything , one is tempted to say , except a shared orthodoxy . |
| 27 | Records in England and Wales and Northern Ireland , however , still held the names and addresses of many who had long ceased to practise , some of them no longer alive , and so the records as they stood could not be described as ‘ live ’ . |
| 28 | That was the last mild sensation of the evening , for the final one , still to come , certainly could not be described as mild , and occurred somewhat after midnight . |
| 29 | Her clothes could not be described as unsuitable for the country , but they were not the sort of thing a country woman would wear . |
| 30 | The designers employed by G.W. Fashions most definitely could not be described as avant-garde . ’ |