Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [Wh det] can [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , the City Council has behaved in what can only be described as a lax , sluggish and offhand manner towards one of the few private initiatives at the very centre of Dutch cultural life . |
| 2 | It was two or three days earlier that I had made my appointment , and as luck so often has it , the due day arrived to what can only be described as ‘ one of those days ’ . |
| 3 | One of the companies involved in what can only be described as the latest round of unity talks among the warring Unix camps , which appear to be being sponsored by Unix International Inc , says that for all the fear , uncertainty and doubt unleashed by Microsoft Corp with Windows NT , the initiative still lacks the compulsion that galvanised the part of the industry — led by those that saw Unix primarily as a threat — to form the Open Software Foundation five years ago . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | FACED with what can best be described as a public relations crisis , the Association of British Insurers ' vigorous over-reaction to Thursday 's conclusion by the Office of Fair Trading that key rules governing the sale of life products are anti-competitive is , to put it mildly , stupid . |
| 6 | Furthermore , as when we infer from observed sweat the existence of pores in the skin , reason can lead us from what can be perceived to what can not . |