Example sentences of "may [be] described [prep] a " 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 I ) plot closest to what may be described as a minimum value maturity-depth trend .
3 A man who may be described as a little eccentric , he suffers from angina , and only a few weeks previously had taken ill with an attack while on holiday in Majorca .
4 These families may be described as a traditional élite ; in the twentieth century they either found new sources of wealth and influence or became local notables .
5 Its dependence on e and D ( for IOD=6.5cm ) is illustrated on the left-hand side of Fig. 2 and may be described as a manifestation of differential vertical perspective .
6 This may be described as a concern with ‘ impact ’ rather than with ‘ implementation ’ .
7 Q24 Dependent on how a product is purchased , it may be described as a consumer product or as an industrial product .
8 The sound represented by the letter q may be described as a very retracted variety of /k/ .
9 In terms of the alternative function Z , the original solution may be described by a real function Z and the new solution satisfying ( 11.8 ) is then given by ( 12.46 ) This can thus be seen to be a transformation of the type ( 12.2 ) followed by an Ehlers transformation in a slightly more general form than ( 12.13 ) .
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