Example sentences of "[conj] can be described " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eels come into it somehow , but not in a way that can be described in a family newspaper . |
| 2 | Imagine two particles produced in a suitable composite state that can be described by a single wave function of their respective possible positions . |
| 3 | The second group of species common on Sheffield 's wasteland are the invertebrates that can be described as synanthropic , or culture-favoured . |
| 4 | This is , in short , an entirely successful CD , and one of those rare recordings that can be described as a monument to the art of playing the piano . |
| 5 | In both cases the limitations of vocabulary should not be seen necessarily to imply any lack of ability for abstract thought : these animals are using an alien tool to communicate with a species ( us ) whose intellectual make-up is quite alien to them , so it is hardly surprising that there are comparatively few areas of common ground that can be described using human words . |
| 6 | Firstly , to a participant ( in a discourse , in a kinship system ) for whom the object has a reality that can be described and understood . |
| 7 | The lasting impression of these accounts is that everyone agrees that there was a ‘ permissive age ’ , or a process of change that can be described as ‘ permissive ’ , but that no-one can actually agree what constituted ‘ permissiveness ’ . |
| 8 | At that moment I understood that the Army out there , with its tanks aiding those madmen or , OK , even those pitiful people defending their immediate right to life is not defending anything that can be described as a social or national cause . |
| 9 | Only the master of the house has a room that can be described as a personal sanctum , because he alone ( it would seem ) has to spend his mornings ‘ more or less … in practical affairs ’ . |
| 10 | In practice case management for people with long term mental illness has developed into a range of techniques that can be described along 12 different axes ( box 2 ) , which aim to ensure that patients with long term psychiatric disorders receive consistent and continuing services for as long as they are required and that services do not focus inappropriately on patients with less severe conditions . |
| 11 | However , not all change of state verbs can be expected to occur with adverbal adjectives even then ; for instance , murder and burn do indeed produce a change of state that can be described by an adjective but one which is so intimately linked to the nature of the verb and so banally obvious that the adjective describing the object is otiose . |
| 12 | Similarly , though there are inevitably problems and exceptions , we continue to treat the tone-unit as something that can be described , defined and recognised . |
| 13 | Finally , Lear resigned himself to Gould 's impenetrable isolation , and , in a letter written in 1863 , came as close as he could to an objective description of his former employer and erstwhile friend : ‘ A more singularly offensive mannered man than G. hardly can be : but the queer fellow means well , tho 's more of an Egotist than can be described . ’ |
| 14 | If prose is the lower medium , then the movement up to verse is a movement to a higher rank , and can be described in terms of the rituals known in anthropology as rites of passage . |
| 15 | Many features of the pelvis have been stated to show sex differences , but only those which are particularly important and can be described easily are mentioned here . |
| 16 | In region II , T g is dependent on the molar mass and can be described by equation ( 12.35 ) , but , on entering region III where the decrease in T g accelerates , this is no longer true . |
| 17 | And can be described as Ryedale east , northeast ? |