Example sentences of "[be] described " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the purposes of this book , just two assertions will have to content us : first , some works have been intended by their makers to be seen as art ; second , there is a consensus today that other works are to be described as art . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In an art museum , the works may be described from room to room , whether in a book or on a sound guide . |
| 5 | A totem , for example , can be described first as it appears , then as an object which has stylised figures in the sculpture . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The three areas can be described as ones of political — religious mediation occurring at different levels of social process . |
| 8 | His ethnographic boundaries can not be described as being geographically to the north of anywhere , for they are around him and within . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He is unable to ‘ switch off ’ his analytic mind , for he becomes possessed of something which can best be described as ‘ special knowledge ’ . |
| 11 | I now see that between 1958 and 1977 I was involved in what might well be described as a social drama of movement , often crossing boundaries into very marginal areas of policing , where the institutional ideal of ordered definition fails simply because the ‘ use of power and exercise of authority are based in ambiguity and particular interpretations of [ what is often ] poorly framed legislation ’ ( Burton 1980 ) . |
| 12 | The squad I ran became what can only be described as more ‘ disordered ’ and ‘ polluted ’ than had been the accepted norm , and we exhibited many verbal and nonverbal signals of this divergent nature . |
| 13 | There is an account of the mind-body problem which could , with some oversimplification , be described as the currently fashionable one . |
| 14 | In 1984 , when the InterCity Charter Unit was first set up , it had at its disposal some twenty sets of Mk 1 stock — principally second-class tourist open vehicles — but nothing which could credibly be described as suitable for the VIP trains it was seeking to introduce . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | What could legitimately be described as ‘ dubious tactics ’ on Malham Cove in the early 70s would have been regarded as quite normal in the early 60s and would be considered style of pathological purity in the 90s . |
| 18 | In similar ways , arcs , ellipses and regular polygons can be described . |
| 19 | System parameters also need to be described in drawing description files , such as : — |
| 20 | Like other graphics , fonts can be described in a high level manner , or as bit mapped images . |
| 21 | There is a range of other software application programs on the market which may be described as design aids . |
| 22 | Scrutiny had an enormous influence on English studies , particularly in England , but its immediate model was the non-academic Calendar of Modem Letters , and more remotely the great Victorian reviews , whose contents might be described as the higher literary journalism . |
| 23 | Tixier-Vignancour declined to be described as ‘ anti-semitic ’ ( he once sued Sam White of the Evening Standard for calling him this ) but he was in no danger of winning a ‘ righteous gentile ’ award . |
| 24 | Out of pre-tax profits that rose £175,000 to £19.25m in the six months to July , some £6.7m could be described as exceptional if not extraordinary . |
| 25 | Why then must the street in which she lives , in a row of handsome but not very grand Georgian houses , be protected by gates and railings which can without hyperbole be described as neo-palatial ? |
| 26 | The reconstruction of the interior of Uppark can not reasonably be described as maintenance . |
| 27 | And , while none of the industrial townscapes could be described as pretty , he has a terrific eye . |
| 28 | The following features of a statutory redundancy payment emerged : ( 1 ) The obligation was imposed on the employer ; ( 2 ) It only arose on dismissal and might never arise if an employee worked until retirement , whether voluntary — early retirement — or at an agreed date , each of which was based on contract ; ( 3 ) It only arose if certain preconditions were proved ; ( 4 ) It applied to all employees who had worked for at least two years with an employer ; ( 5 ) Certain classes of employee were excluded , eg redundant employees refusing suitable alternative employment ; employees under a fixed-term contract of two years or more , who had renounced their redundancy rights in writing ; ( 6 ) A voluntary redundancy could be under a contractual statutory scheme , and under such a contractual scheme it was often the equivalent of early retirement by agreement ; ( 7 ) In no way could a redundancy payment be described as a deferred emolument or pay ; it was a monetary compensation for the disappearance of a job . |
| 29 | And , while none of the industrial townscapes could be described as pretty , he has a terrific eye . |
| 30 | His manner of playing the piano has something so basically individual about it , and at the same time so masterly , that he may really be described as the perfect virtuoso . ’ |