Example sentences of "can be described [adv] in terms " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
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