Example sentences of "it can be described " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some writing which is called art criticism will be helpful , some will not ; other writing will also be valuable , although whether it can be described as art criticism may be disputable . |
| 2 | Like Caesar 's Gaul , it can be described in three parts : continuing decline 1980–2 ; the London & South Eastern phase under David Kirby 1982–5 ; and the reign of Chris Green and the birth of Network SouthEast commencing with his appointment on 6 January 1986 . |
| 3 | She proceeded to do this earnestly , seriously , and she sounded like an old steam-engine wheezing from the depths of the water ( that idyllic sound , now long forgotten , which to those who never knew it can be described in no better way than the wheezing of an old woman breathing in and out by the edge of a pool ) . |
| 4 | It can be described as just one of these things . |
| 5 | It can be described as the psychology of absolute consciousness , seeing consciousness not only as an awareness an individual has of him or her ‘ self , but an eternal all-pervasive principle — the highest reality , with all things being manifestations of it . |
| 6 | Realism is radical because any purposive attempt to change the world depends on a conviction that it can be described , even that it has been described ; and it is the chosen task of realism to describe . |
| 7 | Blinking groups with all unconscious rapid closing and opening of eyelids in humans and animals ; it can be described physiologically and there are causal laws to account for its occurrence . |
| 8 | On the one hand , it can be described as a linguistic text : X contains simple words , more abstract than concrete nouns , etc . |
| 9 | Or it can be described as we might describe other fictional forms , such as an opera , a play , a film , or even a mime , where there is no linguistic dimension at all : X contains several Neanderthal characters . |
| 10 | The Belfast community is a broadly monodialectal one , but within this it can be described as a divergent-dialect community ( Johnston , 1983 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It can be described briefly by a single word — complicated . |
| 13 | It can be described as a fact-finding or special committee which is short lived and having achieved its purpose , reports back to the parent body and then ceases to exist ; |