Example sentences of "the [noun] can [be] described " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opportunity can be described to the individual and their interest determined . |
| 2 | The structure of the board can be described by eight facts stating which triples of squares form lines : linear ( a1 , a2 , a3 ) … linear ( a3 , b2 , c1 ) … |
| 3 | The nature and purpose of the SDR can be described as follows : |
| 4 | This play is full of opposites and contraries and the characters of the play can be described as this as well . |
| 5 | A state of knowledge is a set of facts of this form , and so the search can be described adequately in a language containing just the names of things which might be found , all possible coordinates , and the relation here-found . |
| 6 | In the light of what he read to be the limitation laid down by the Court of Appeal , the judge concluded , at p. 663E , that ‘ little , if any , of the information sought by the administrators can be described as ‘ reconstituting the company 's knowledge . ’ |
| 7 | The skill can be described as a group of inter-related subskills which do not require moment-by-moment attention , and this is also an appropriate description of skilled reading . |
| 8 | The predominant approach in the UK can be described as Manually Coded English ( MCE ) , i.e. the priority everywhere seems to be to support the learning of English through simultaneous use of signs and English . |
| 9 | In most samples , the relationship can be described by a marked " J " shaped curve , which implies unsuitability of the very young maternal ages and , particularly the late period of childbearing ages for healthy reproduction . |
| 10 | In J. Milroy and L. Milroy ( 1977 ) , we justified this method , somewhat retrospectively , in terms of the social network model ( the fieldworker can be described as a second-order network contact ) , and it is useful methodologically to think of it in this way ( indeed , many other investigators have successfully used the idea of social network as an explicit part of their fieldwork strategy ) . |
| 11 | The chain can be described adequately by specifying the first rectangle and then relating the next one to it by the four statements in Table 11.1 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The theory can be described as a characterisation of the possible patterns or as the destructive part of the problem — it destroys or eliminates certain possibilities . |
| 14 | From then on the object can be described , in its simplest form , by its enveloping box . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | If the poetic function is dominant , then the message can be described as ‘ poetic ’ , or ‘ aesthetic ’ or ‘ literary ’ , or ‘ artistic ’ . |
| 17 | First let us establish how the geodesic equation simplifies when the motion can be described approximately by classical mechanics . |
| 18 | Each view of the world can be described using personal constructs which can be elicited by the use of a Repertory Grid . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This meaning contrasts with that found in sentences such as She ordered me to break down the door , where only part of the movement signified by to is actualized : Here the infinitive can be described as evoking a subsequent potentiality , i.e. an event whose actualization is futurized with respect to that of the main verb . |
| 21 | The system can be described as a set of cascaded ATN networks which communicated via an ordered agenda . |
| 22 | Development of the embryo can be described , and explained , at various levels of organization such as that of the tissue , cell , or molecule . |
| 23 | The process of transmitting the signal from the nerve to the muscle can be described quite simply . |
| 24 | The model assumes that the liability to the disease can be described by an underlying continuous liability scale ( y ) . |