Example sentences of "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 | 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 . |
| 3 | A totem , for example , can be described first as it appears , then as an object which has stylised figures in the sculpture . |
| 4 | The three areas can be described as ones of political — religious mediation occurring at different levels of social process . |
| 5 | Indeed for those insiders living in Cheater 's metaphorical front room — such as in the police — the need to obscure and seek a degree of anonymity from the analytic gaze can be described as a major principle in the preservation of power , ranking highly in the structures of significance . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Many of the peaks have routes on them that can be described as forming a midway point between hard Alpine and Himalayan standard — long ridge routes that take several days to accomplish ; big face routes on rock and ice . |
| 8 | In similar ways , arcs , ellipses and regular polygons can be described . |
| 9 | Like other graphics , fonts can be described in a high level manner , or as bit mapped images . |
| 10 | Eels come into it somehow , but not in a way that can be described in a family newspaper . |
| 11 | Only the United States had no state airline , and believed that airways should be open to free market capitalism : ‘ In general , the Chicago conference can be described … as an attempt by the United States to capitalise on its overwhelmingly strong bargaining position in international aviation by securing for itself a near monopoly of long-haul air transport . ' |
| 12 | Indeed , British Defence policy can be described as the sum of Naval , General and Air Staff special pleading . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | The political involvements of Free Presbyterian ministers can be described as follows . |
| 15 | Colic can be described simply as abdominal pain caused by malfunction of the intestinal tract , but sometimes the horse does n't get better . |
| 16 | The location of the perimeter of a square can be described by continuous lines . |
| 17 | Such a relationship can be described as structural , that whatever occurs between the above elements is controlled within the parameters of that structure . |
| 18 | There is little in the Outer Hebrides at the present time which can be described as natural woodland . |
| 19 | Remember , the law does not allow you to carry anything which can be described as an ‘ offensive weapon ’ such as a sharpened comb or a knife . |
| 20 | This is probably the last of what can be described as a traditional Farnborough year , although many of the old faces were disappearing , many new faces were emerging too . |
| 21 | It is important to understand that it is never treatment in the abstract which can be described as ‘ extraordinary ’ , but only treatment in the context of the particular patient being cared for . |
| 22 | Development of the embryo can be described , and explained , at various levels of organization such as that of the tissue , cell , or molecule . |
| 23 | Not many potholes can be described as attractive , most being quite horrendous . |
| 24 | That kind of moral position can be described , I think quite rightly , as fanaticism . |
| 25 | The cases in which supplementary help was given can be described as follows : |
| 26 | Despite the use of country risk analysis it must be conceded that competition for loan business has sometimes encouraged banks to ignore their own country or regional risk assessments and indulge in what can be described only as imprudent bank lending ( dealt with in Chapter 8 ) . |
| 27 | The degree of modification of the bones in both cases can be described as minimal , in common with other barn owl pellet accumulations , and there were no modifications from weathering . |
| 28 | This can be described as the degree to which an odour is perceived to be agreeable or disagreeable , pleasant or unpleasant . |
| 29 | Many odours which can be described as ‘ disagreeable ’ and cause annoyance are a ‘ nuisance ’ in the ordinary meaning of the word . |
| 30 | This can be described by subjecting the Killing vectors to any transformation , where . |