Example sentences of "[noun sg] can be described in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Light can be described in terms both of waves and of particles . |
| 2 | ‘ Plugging ’ , in all its aspects , represents an authoritarian distribution system which produces psychologically weak individuals eager to identify with authority ; for such immature personalities , listening can be described in terms of neuroses . |
| 3 | The second synthesis can be described in terms of sociological essentialism . |
| 4 | Human development can be described in terms of three attributes : capacities , skills and aspirations ( Singleton , 198 1 ) . |
| 5 | For instance , if a constant fraction of profits ( and none of wages ) are saved , or if the savings behaviour of the economy can be described in terms of an infinitely-lived representative individual ( with an additive utility function and a fixed rate of pure time preference ) , then in the long run the after-tax rate of return is determined independently of the tax rate . |
| 6 | ‘ The location of the offence can be described in evidence by any witness of the incident to show that it occurred in a public or a private place . |
| 7 | Qualitative analysis can be described in relation to the following parameters : |
| 8 | They are redundant , but not because the world can be described in terms of eternal " propositions which are true or false in virtue of being the propositions they are , but because they advertise certain claims which can equally successfully be conveyed implicitly , viz. by asserting the proposition or its negation , as the case may be . |
| 9 | For example , if language difficulties identified from an assessment can be described in terms of a functional analysis , and an environmental deficit , remedial procedures might be directed at rearranging the contingencies in the child 's natural environment . |