Example sentences of "can be described [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modern economic transactions assume forms of complex association between a number of parties , not all of which can be described as agreements or exchanges . |
| 2 | The three areas can be described as ones of political — religious mediation occurring at different levels of social process . |
| 3 | We can see from this that in the technical sense most large and many small organisations can be described as bureaucracies . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Human development can be described in terms of three attributes : capacities , skills and aspirations ( Singleton , 198 1 ) . |
| 6 | If prose is the lower medium , then the movement up to verse is a movement to a higher rank , and can be described in terms of the rituals known in anthropology as rites of passage . |
| 7 | Light can be described in terms both of waves and of particles . |
| 8 | The second synthesis can be described in terms of sociological essentialism . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Using the wave/particle duality discussed in the last chapter , everything in the universe , including light and gravity , can be described in terms of particles . |
| 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 theoretical view seems to offer a convenient framework for a broad division of history into periods which can be described by innovations that appear to be characteristic of each . |