Example sentences of "can be described [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can be described briefly by a single word — complicated . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Identifying references to qualities can be made only via the latter 's exemplifying instances and the thesis that what actually exists can be described simply in terms of qualities and relations between qualities , can not be consistently defended . |
| 5 | Studies which use arousing stimuli as the items to be remembered often produce results which can be described simply in terms of von Restorff effects . |
| 6 | This pattern can be described economically in terms of Garrett 's model if we propose that , of the two processes applied to the message-level representation in order to create the functional-level representation , one has been completely disabled , with the other remaining almost intact . |
| 7 | First let us establish how the geodesic equation simplifies when the motion can be described approximately by classical mechanics . |
| 8 | Thus , in the crates problem , the naive states can be described just by stating which crate is where , but the states of the real search space involve subtler relations . |
| 9 | Similarly , it can be described phonologically in terms of a set of sub-scales , in which the potential for lowering and backing will vary in degree for different subsets . |
| 10 | Dielectric relaxation processes can be described formally by the following relations : and |
| 11 | Since nodding can be described only as a formless act , clearly the civil law had no interest in it . |
| 12 | James S. Ackerman , the architectural scholar , makes use of this phrase in writing about art and communication : ‘ What a work of art communicates can be described only in terms of an interaction between an object and a subject ; it communicates nothing at all unless someone is there to look at it . |