Example sentences of "can not be described " in BNC.
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| 1 | His ethnographic boundaries can not be described as being geographically to the north of anywhere , for they are around him and within . |
| 2 | The Epistles of St Paul and the Apocalyptic Book of Revelation contain many high and mystical expressions of belief about Christ but they can not be described as ‘ records ’ of the kind which would compel rational belief . |
| 3 | Of course the burning of one old man can not be described as persecution ; it was in no way a parallel to the persecution in England which gave an instinctively kindly woman the name of Bloody Mary . |
| 4 | Along with the established azodye processes , the company also produces intermediates using nitration , sulphonation , chlorination , oxidation , amination and catalytic reactions and as such CAC can not be described as a single technology company . |
| 5 | The present was only twenty-four guineas , which we received immediately on leaving the King 's apartment , but the graciousness with which both His Majesty the King and Her Majesty the Queen received us can not be described . |
| 6 | And there are readers who have been deeply moved and impressed in the ways that we have described by books that can not be described as the best of anything . |
| 7 | Both Walter Hilton and Dame Julian insist that God is transcendent and can not be described or grasped by the human mind , but they belong more to the Western tradition than the author of The Cloud of Unknowing . |
| 8 | There are even human communities around the world which exist without such tools as writing , while constructing artefacts , commonly of wood , that can not be described as permanent ( in terms of thousands or millions of years ) . |
| 9 | A flight to residential care from a disagreeable home situation can not be described as choice . |
| 10 | It can not be described as a student-led movement , starting as it did on a wall located on a busy shopping street , rather than on one of the capital 's many campuses . |
| 11 | Contrary to influential theories in primatology and ethology , hunting among the Chewong can not be described as an aggressive or violent activity ( see the Introduction , this volume , for discussion of problems in connection with the definition of these terms ) . |
| 12 | Since the gap between the two campaigns was twenty-two years this can not be described as ‘ volatility ’ in antislavery support but it does indicate a complicated picture of simultaneous large expansion and significant ( though quantitatively less ) erosion , using the yardstick of petitioning . |
| 13 | ‘ The Kremlin can not be described . |
| 14 | Geurrero can not be described as ‘ typical ’ in that it does not include the most serious offenders , including those convicted of serious violence or large-scale drug offences . |
| 15 | Note : A tour of Egypt is a unique and fascinating experience but can not be described as leisurely . |
| 16 | There are also important areas of knowledge and skill which can not be described with any precision either because of their nature ( e.g. " understanding " ) or because not enough is yet known about the factors causing difficulty to pupils . |
| 17 | The massive amount of activity by developer builders after the mid-1960s , which continues to this day , can not be described as unplanned , given that it was carried out in relation to land-use planning and the provision of infrastructure . |
| 18 | Such a process can not be described as a set of sub-activities connected by unidirectional communications . |
| 19 | The approach I am going to adopt now applies to the present section only and acknowledges the fact that a superconductor is not an " ordinary " magnetic material ; it can not be described by a " magnetic " constant , by assigning to it a certain value for |
| 20 | The famous Benedictine abbey of Einsiedeln Switzerland 's greatest place of pilgrimage , set in the pre-Alp country of canton Schwyz can not be described as " off the beaten track " but it would be unthinkable to omit the possibility of visiting it when in this neighbourhood . |
| 21 | Observations can not be described or predicted beyond a certain point but are just arbitrary . |
| 22 | Royal Brass commemorative horse-brasses did not appear until Victorian times and , in any case , the shape can not be described as traditional . |
| 23 | Conditions at the centre of the black hole ( r = O ) can not be described in any sensible manner as yet . |
| 24 | Multi-word concepts Some subjects can not be described satisfactorily with one word , but require two or more words for their specification . |
| 25 | MORTUARY buildings , including post-mortem rooms , can not be described as the most popular or easily accessible areas on a hospital site . |
| 26 | Clover growth can not be described in terms of a simple one-dimensional extension . |
| 27 | That can not be described as a poor performance . |
| 28 | Their inward warbling song , which can not be described , is unceasingly poured forth from noon to night , and is even continued throughout the night if they are placed in a room with lights , and where an animated conversation is carried on . ’ |
| 29 | However , unlike the women who can not be described with generous words the men are not all bad . |
| 30 | Perhaps such feelings can not be described and whatever I remembered afterwards could be only a shadowy replica . |