Example sentences of "[that] can [adv] [be] [vb pp] as " in BNC.

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1 When the smoke clears Pain Teens turn out to be more down to earth , a punky bar band who occasionally stray into territory that can best be described as extra terrestrial .
2 A good recent example is the TV launch campaign for First Direct ( whatever you may think of an execution that can best be described as controversial ) .
3 Coach Andy Stovold has the kind of brief that can not be envied as he tries to add technique and confidence to fledgling players .
4 On another page he included a picture of Mary that can only be described as erotic .
5 He looks at me hard and says in a voice that can only be described as arch , ‘ Do you mean do I cry when I see children with flies round their eyes ?
6 Today the Fellowships have many members who have made recoveries that can only be described as miraculous .
7 Correlations between the broad characteristics of a taxonomic group and species ecologies yield suggestive associations that can then be expressed as evolutionary hypotheses that are in principle open to direct tests .
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