Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [adv] [be] described [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The division might more accurately be described as one between ‘ reactionary conservatives ’ and ‘ liberal conservatives ’ with hardly half-a-dozen genuine radicals in the Council chamber ( Archbishop Roberts was never once permitted to speak ! ) . |
| 2 | Most of them might more accurately be described as tinted pen and ink drawings than watercolours in the traditional sense . |
| 3 | Yet his team could not fairly be described as negative . |
| 4 | It is absolutely true that a large number of people who could not remotely be described as rich would be hit by the proposal . |
| 5 | In trying to describe the mechanics of something which is more emotional than clinical , more sensual than physiological , they occasionally range into the ridiculous , but could almost never be described as sublime . |
| 6 | Their life could certainly not be described as full . |
| 7 | There is a good case for excluding these economically inactive people since they can not really be described as capable and available for full-time work . |
| 8 | As Jack Sattel has observed , the fabled ‘ inexpressiveness ’ of men can not usefully be described as simply a correlate of their masculine gender role . |
| 9 | Such Soviet and DRA claims that Afghanistan can meaningfully still be described as non-aligned have been ridiculed by Western statesmen . |