Example sentences of "might [adv] be describe [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An example of Wimsatt 's ( 1958 : 147 — 8 ) is what he calls the metaphor , and many would call the simile , in the last line of this passage from Donne 's ‘ A Valediction : forbidding mourning ’ ( like Eliot , the New Critics were particularly attached to the Metaphysical poets ) : The comparison between the lovers ' separation and the hammering of gold into leaf-form brings together two terms which are clearly quite different and therefore might justifiably be described as opposites ; and the conjunction of meanings thus established creates a series of connections ( the relationship between the separated lovers is like gold leaf in that it is ethereal ( ‘ ayery ’ ) , delicate , easily damaged , but at the same time precious , pure , bright , etc. ) , which when related to real experience possesses considerable illuminating force . |
| 2 | Newton 's laws and many others which followed , spurred scientists into a vision of a universe that might eventually be described in its entirety . |
| 3 | His aim might unkindly be described as the creating of rococo tragedy with Aristotle 's support . |
| 4 | Given their present configuration , Opposition Front-Bench Members might better be described as a hot dog . |
| 5 | By the time the interviews were to start , there was an atmosphere prevalent that might best be described as ‘ heightened excitement ’ . |
| 6 | I now see that between 1958 and 1977 I was involved in what might well be described as a social drama of movement , often crossing boundaries into very marginal areas of policing , where the institutional ideal of ordered definition fails simply because the ‘ use of power and exercise of authority are based in ambiguity and particular interpretations of [ what is often ] poorly framed legislation ’ ( Burton 1980 ) . |
| 7 | While Germany as a whole might well be described as a capitalist state with feudal trimmings , Pomerania and the long arm of East Prussia remained feudal with modest capitalist trimmings . |
| 8 | In Sterne 's Shandy Hall the similarity of its servants Obadiah and Susannah to the rest of that eccentric household might almost be described as a family likeness . |