Example sentences of "not be described " in BNC.
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| 1 | Examples such as the one above suggest that the linguistic label for an object is part of the representation of a scene containing that object , even if the scene has not been described . |
| 2 | We can not give a detailed proof of this important result here since it depends so crucially on the details of the denotational semantics , which have not been described in this paper . |
| 3 | To our knowledge however , the dose dependent effect of sodium nitroprusside , the enantiomeric specificity of the inhibition of NO synthase ( and its reversal by substrates ) , and the action of oxyhaemoglobin have not been described in this tissue before . |
| 4 | To our knowledge this presentation has not been described previously . |
| 5 | A pericentric inversion between 10p11.2 and 10q11.2 has not been described during human chromosome 10 evolution , but this would be difficult to detect cytogenetically . |
| 6 | His ethnographic boundaries can not be described as being geographically to the north of anywhere , for they are around him and within . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It will even take account of the fact that some relevant objects may not be described as ‘ wooden ’ at all , but as being made of ‘ beech ’ , ‘ mahogany ’ , ‘ deal ’ or the like . |
| 9 | The hostages , too , could not be described in sentimental terms . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He could not be described as handsome , and , in later years , with his weight fluctuating to in excess of fifteen stone through his appetite for junkish food between pictures , he showed signs of a middle-aged spread ; not being tall , at five feet , nine inches , it tends to be obvious . |
| 14 | Secondly , we set about drawing attention , nationally and locally , to a threatened church that simply could not be described as being redundant , having a weekly congregation of over 1,500 worshippers ! |
| 15 | In this test , which will not be described in full , quantification of the light received by a sample is achieved by means of standardised strips of wool cloth dyed with different dyes which differ in their fastness to light . |
| 16 | Their life could certainly not be described as full . |
| 17 | The generation techniques themselves will not be described in detail here . |
| 18 | Although the present time could not be described as ‘ religious ’ , there is a great interest in mythology , magic , the occult , eastern philosophies and religions , and the supernatural — everything , one is tempted to say , except a shared orthodoxy . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Indeed , the film could not be described as hardcore pornography at all . |
| 21 | Therefore , the lighting that had been installed to provide a normal level of additional illumination could not be described as plant . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | A flight to residential care from a disagreeable home situation can not be described as choice . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Records in England and Wales and Northern Ireland , however , still held the names and addresses of many who had long ceased to practise , some of them no longer alive , and so the records as they stood could not be described as ‘ live ’ . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | The sick person would not be described as chan in such instances , although the cause would be identified as directly related to the behaviour of the spouse . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ The Kremlin can not be described . |