Example sentences of "which [modal v] be describe [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hora e sempre — this motto is inscribed on the front of Hawksmoor 's , the real Hawksmoor 's , Classical house at Easton Neston in Northamptonshire : Easton Neston has been reputed or imagined to be the original of Mansfield Park , which may be described as a house imagined by an opponent of the Gothic novel . |
| 2 | There is a range of other software application programs on the market which may be described as design aids . |
| 3 | Simmel concludes this section of his Philosophy with an argument that money represents the end point of that cultural process which may be described as the reduction of quality to quantity , a line of argument which was to prove particularly influential in later traditions of Western Marxism . |
| 4 | They start by dividing the day into a number of segments , which may be described by name — ‘ peak ’ , ‘ pre-peak ’ , ‘ post-peak ’ , ‘ daytime ’ , etc. , — or , more frequently , simply by numbers . |
| 5 | This characteristic is different from sympathy which might be described as a warm rosy glow of a feeling of identification , that lends itself to being paralysed by sorrow , overwhelmed with shared worry , and joyful too . |
| 6 | Altogether this led to an effect which might be described as a tapering of market opportunities , and it was sharpened as international growth rates decelerated in the early 1970s . |
| 7 | Investigators in a number of places have reported sociolinguistically salient variation affecting word-classes which might be described as phonolexical sets . |
| 8 | Mrs thinks that that is best provided by two carers living in the house , each on duty for half the week , such carers being directly employed by the , by contrast Mrs says that an agency should provide a carer all the time from its available pool , she envisages that in practice three or four carers would share the work , they differ over the full number of hours care to be provided by hired carers , Mrs envisages seventeen hours a day in total , Mrs ten hours , again I emphasize that the artificiality of the working in precise number of hours , where you have somebody actually living in the house all the time and available to er carry out active care at any time , but of course carers are not always having to do things which might be described as active care . |
| 9 | Only speculation is possible in offering a reason for the initial action , which could be described as the first rite . |
| 10 | Days later , glutted with our experiences , we knew we had created a ‘ wonder walk ’ , a two week trek which could be described as a jewel in the Atlas crown . |
| 11 | In between was the cavalry-owning class proper , who took slowly but eventually to ideas which could be described as democracy ( p. 83 ) . |
| 12 | The priority for developing these subsystems will depend on potential benefit , urgency of need , probability of success or natural precedence , which could be described as the next ‘ piece of the jigsaw , . |
| 13 | In a written decision the tribunal said it was unable to find any action on the part of the faculty which could be described as an act of discrimination . |
| 14 | A brief filed with the Texas Supreme Court said : ‘ For the purposes of paragraph ( 3 ) , an organisation described in paragraph ( 2 ) shall be deemed to include an organisation described in section 501(c) ( 4 ) , ( 5 ) , or ( 6 ) which would be described in paragraph ( 2 ) if it were an organisation described in section 501 ( c ) ( 3 ) . |
| 15 | This is known as the study of the context in which fossils occur and is quite distinct from the identification or taxonomy of fossil species , which will be described in a separate book . |
| 16 | They have further suggested two possible extensions which will be described in the next section . |
| 17 | This programme is also unique in including both prospective developmental and social evaluations , which will be described in detail elsewhere . |
| 18 | It is overlain with a more detailed pattern reflecting the location of over spill estates , which will be described in Chapter 6 . |
| 19 | Weights also occur in many neural nets , which will be described in Chapter 4 . |
| 20 | The most favourable field is in the local government service , which will be described in the next section . |
| 21 | The original geological maps , which will be described in more detail below , were prepared only as single-copy manuscripts , making access for researchers outside Edinburgh more difficult , and leading to an unintentional positive discrimination in favour of locally-based students . |
| 22 | There is little in the Outer Hebrides at the present time which can be described as natural woodland . |
| 23 | Remember , the law does not allow you to carry anything which can be described as an ‘ offensive weapon ’ such as a sharpened comb or a knife . |
| 24 | The third meaning of this word ‘ love ’ is the one which is applied to the intense physical attraction between the sexes , known as falling in love , and which can be described as an intensification and beautification of the mating urge . |
| 25 | In the factory , each block is reduced to a finished curling stone weighing 40 lbs which can be described as a thing of beauty and is truly an example of the finest craftsmanship . |
| 26 | ( NOTE that for ‘ road ’ there must be a line of communication which can be described as a road and it is not sufficient merely to show vehicles have access , e.g. to a car-park ) ; and |
| 27 | Modern economic transactions assume forms of complex association between a number of parties , not all of which can be described as agreements or exchanges . |
| 28 | And this uncertainty could be usefully divided into two independently identifiable dimensions which can be described as : |
| 29 | All of these functions are composite in the budgetary process , which can be described as a two-stage process . |
| 30 | A will in my judgment is a document which must at least purport to contain something which can be described as a testamentary disposition . |