Example sentences of "which [vb mod] be describe " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hora e sempre — this motto is inscribed on the front of Hawksmoor 's , the real Hawksmoor 's , Classical house at Easton Neston in Northamptonshire : Easton Neston has been reputed or imagined to be the original of Mansfield Park , which may be described as a house imagined by an opponent of the Gothic novel . |
| 2 | There is a range of other software application programs on the market which may be described as design aids . |
| 3 | That there have occurred changes which may be described as permissive is not doubted : ‘ We have experienced a change in standards of conduct which one might also describe by reversing Caxton 's quotation . |
| 4 | In this period , and before the events which may be described as ‘ the August Revolution ’ , there were in retrospect , at least two others which assume a momentous character . |
| 5 | They start by dividing the day into a number of segments , which may be described by name — ‘ peak ’ , ‘ pre-peak ’ , ‘ post-peak ’ , ‘ daytime ’ , etc. , — or , more frequently , simply by numbers . |
| 6 | Simmel concludes this section of his Philosophy with an argument that money represents the end point of that cultural process which may be described as the reduction of quality to quantity , a line of argument which was to prove particularly influential in later traditions of Western Marxism . |
| 7 | We commence with the idealized freely jointed chain , which may be described exactly and also by several very useful approximations . |
| 8 | Such samples require the use of special techniques which may be described loosely as flow , flash and freeze methods . |
| 9 | Many biographers fall into a category which might be described as scholarly but not academic in that they are written by professional writers for an educated general readership rather than for the narrower market of academic specialists in a particular subject . |
| 10 | An activity could be analysed into quite short sections , each of which might be described ( using traditional language ) as a ‘ lesson ’ , or for the learner , ‘ task ’ . |
| 11 | This characteristic is different from sympathy which might be described as a warm rosy glow of a feeling of identification , that lends itself to being paralysed by sorrow , overwhelmed with shared worry , and joyful too . |
| 12 | Altogether this led to an effect which might be described as a tapering of market opportunities , and it was sharpened as international growth rates decelerated in the early 1970s . |
| 13 | Investigators in a number of places have reported sociolinguistically salient variation affecting word-classes which might be described as phonolexical sets . |
| 14 | In this passage , in which the narrator is recalling his father 's days as a medium and healer , there are three segments which might be described as reformulations , but only one is presented as a correction . |
| 15 | Mrs thinks that that is best provided by two carers living in the house , each on duty for half the week , such carers being directly employed by the , by contrast Mrs says that an agency should provide a carer all the time from its available pool , she envisages that in practice three or four carers would share the work , they differ over the full number of hours care to be provided by hired carers , Mrs envisages seventeen hours a day in total , Mrs ten hours , again I emphasize that the artificiality of the working in precise number of hours , where you have somebody actually living in the house all the time and available to er carry out active care at any time , but of course carers are not always having to do things which might be described as active care . |
| 16 | Aromatherapy is the only healing art which could be described as creative in an artistic sense . |
| 17 | Only speculation is possible in offering a reason for the initial action , which could be described as the first rite . |
| 18 | In 1935 , after the Murrells débâcle and the dawning realization that very little which could be described as administration had gone on in Masai District , the Tanganyika government did in fact begin to give some serious thought to the type of man which should be sent there . |
| 19 | Days later , glutted with our experiences , we knew we had created a ‘ wonder walk ’ , a two week trek which could be described as a jewel in the Atlas crown . |
| 20 | In between was the cavalry-owning class proper , who took slowly but eventually to ideas which could be described as democracy ( p. 83 ) . |
| 21 | All seem , at least implicitly , to view material and ideological factors as interacting with each other in a manner which could be described ( if we may risk being unfashionable by using a Marxist term ) as ‘ dialectical ’ . |
| 22 | Our fieldwork brought us into contact with a number of organisations in that sector which could be described as " new " users , seeking to manage a climate of increased " uncertainty " . |
| 23 | In eighteenth-century England there was , in comparison with other countries , a large section of the population which could be described as neither rich nor poor , ranging from the prosperous shopkeeper or yeoman farmer to the skilled artisan in full employment . |
| 24 | The priority for developing these subsystems will depend on potential benefit , urgency of need , probability of success or natural precedence , which could be described as the next ‘ piece of the jigsaw , . |
| 25 | In a written decision the tribunal said it was unable to find any action on the part of the faculty which could be described as an act of discrimination . |
| 26 | Among the situational factors influencing variation , it is possible to pick out some which could be described as stylistic , and many linguists have attempted to produce frameworks for the analysis of style in language . |
| 27 | We will not consider this in detail , but should note that for foreign learners a typical situation — regrettably , an almost inevitable one — is that they learn a style of pronunciation which could be described as careful and formal . |
| 28 | Looking at maths as a much wider subject , as a subject perhaps for research and for exploration , have there been any very obvious trends in mathematics in recent years which could be described ? |
| 29 | A brief filed with the Texas Supreme Court said : ‘ For the purposes of paragraph ( 3 ) , an organisation described in paragraph ( 2 ) shall be deemed to include an organisation described in section 501(c) ( 4 ) , ( 5 ) , or ( 6 ) which would be described in paragraph ( 2 ) if it were an organisation described in section 501 ( c ) ( 3 ) . |
| 30 | Two key classes of molecules are nucleic acids and proteins which will be described much more fully in Chapter 5 and can be largely ignored for the present . |