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

  Next page
No Sentence
1 The particular acts found by the judge are we think rather on the borderline of what can properly be regarded as constituting possession , always apart from the consideration of adverse possession .
2 In addition , what can easily be dismissed as paradox , inconsistency , or even hypocrisy may none the less represent some form of genuine religious commitment .
3 It was in the field of cult and religious objects , of decorative and decorated-utilitarian articles , and of what can eventually be distinguished as , in a modern sense , works of art , that reproductive technology became a major cultural mode .
4 It felt like it in the GLX , with what can only be described as feeble front-end grip , resulting in premature and excessive understeer .
5 In parallel to what can only be described as ‘ photo-painting ’ , Bowran has been developing a means of recreating the effect of a charcoal drawing with a printer colleague .
6 Looking back over this year 's first round matches , obviously Germany 's defeat in Rio by Brazil , amid what can only be described as typical South American frenzy and excitement , was the biggest shock and one which might even lead to repercussions not only by the ITF about crowd behaviour in some parts of the world but also from within the disgruntled German camp .
7 One of the companies involved in what can only be described as the latest round of unity talks that Unix International seems to be sponsoring ( UX No 423 , 424 ) says that for all the fear , uncertainty and doubt unleashed by Microsoft Corp , the project still lacks the compulsion that galvanized the industry to form the Open Software Foundation five years ago .
8 It was not until the spring holidays before my summer and middle O-levels that what can really be described as the onset of my anorexia began .
  Next page