Example sentences of "[verb] can be described " 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 | This is not the place to elaborate upon why the educational system we have inherited can be described as men 's education or why , even in areas like adult and community education in which women outnumber men as students , and are employed in considerable numbers as part-time tutors and volunteers , the structures in which we operate are so effectively well grounded in male power and male values as to appear inevitable . |
| 3 | In a large proportion of the cases , when they can be applied at all , both uses — associative and ascriptive — make equally good sense because the facts observed or imagined can be described equally well either way ; the mental , linguistic , difference is there but both mental representations can be mapped onto the same single external situation . |
| 4 | Since nodding can be described only as a formless act , clearly the civil law had no interest in it . |
| 5 | Then B t 's beliefs or assessments on A's type can be described by a function . |
| 6 | Discourse analysis deals with a more general speech style in which the different choices speakers make can be described in functional as well as formal terms . |
| 7 | The cases in which supplementary help was given can be described as follows : |
| 8 | Kevin Scully , senior vice-president of Global Systems and Technology , says : ‘ What we have can be described as a centralised database with applications that are decentralised on a global basis . |
| 9 | 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 . |