Example sentences of "may be termed the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The end of the dock when at the upper part of its inclined railway makes a practically water-tight joint with the standing work at the extremity of what may be termed the head bay or pond of which the dock then forms a continuation , there being also a gate or gates at the end of the bay to retain the water when the dock is absent . |
| 2 | The foot of the inclined way descends below the level of what may be termed the tail bay which is open at the end so that the dock and carriage run down into the water in order to bring the dock into alignment with the tail bay to allow of the vessel being hauled in or out of the dock . |
| 3 | Thus an envelope bounding these wells showing minimum or no uplift on the diagram defines a zone of ± 400 ft ( 120 m ) which may be termed the standard maturity-depth gradient for the Southern North Sea ; all the data points which define the zone were derived from Westphalian age strata . |
| 4 | It was the purpose of the Progress Office to ensure what may be termed the feeding of the works with the necessary parts . |
| 5 | The committee was seriously convinced of the benefits that must result from an institution to cultivate and teach veterinary medicine ; the object of this committee 's concern , and that of Vial , were one and the same ; and it was greatly to be desired that the two plans — that of the Odiham Agricultural Society and that of Vial — ( which may be termed the Alfort plan ) should be consolidated into one . |
| 6 | Oakeshott , however , also contends that these offices are subject to the morality inherent in the rule of law ; what may be termed the jus of lex . |
| 7 | Thus , realism may most readily be viewed as a reaction to the attempt to construct a formal science of law founded on what may be termed the case method ; that is , the assumption that , by close examination of past judicial decisions , the basic principles of law could be deduced . |
| 8 | These tracheoles may be termed the larval or provisional tracheoles , and they extend in bundles into the developing lacunae . |
| 9 | These may be termed the primary lexical units of a lexeme — a category that would include , for instance , dog ( ’ species ’ ) , heavy ( ’ weight ’ ) , novel ( ’ text ’ ) , etc . |
| 10 | There is first of all what may be termed the technical conception of a hierarchical level . |
| 11 | Concerning what may be termed the ‘ multi-professional approach ’ , it was seen as a source of many difficulties for professionals and parents , some practical , some personal and some organisational . |
| 12 | ‘ In particular , over and above their local roles , councils are located and locate themselves in what may be termed the ‘ national local government system ’ ' ( Dunleavy , 1980a , p. 105 ) . |
| 13 | The second meaning may be termed the ‘ substantive sense ’ of unreasonableness : a decision may be attacked if it is so unreasonable that no reasonable public body could have made it . |
| 14 | This may be termed the Phenomenon of the Fallibility of the Fossil Record . |
| 15 | Questions about what may be termed the aesthetics of a text continue to be posed , even though the aesthetic is no longer tied to a text 's autonomous integrity . |
| 16 | The relations between what may be termed the aesthetics of cultural generation . |
| 17 | This approach may be termed the static welfare approach to the analysis of customs unions , and was developed by Viner , ( 1950 ) , Meade , ( 1955 ) and Lipsey , ( 1970 ) . |
| 18 | Rather there is an essential assumption of that basic face-to-face conversational context in which all humans acquire language , or as Lyons ( 1977a : 637-8 ) has put it rather more precisely : The grammaticalization and lexicalization of deixis is best understood in relation to what may be termed the canonical situation of utterance : this involves one-one , or one-many , signalling in the phonic medium along the vocal-auditory channel , with all the participants present in the same actual situation able to see one another and to perceive the associated non-vocal paralinguistic features of their utterances , and each assuming the role of sender and receiver in turn There is much in the structure of languages that can only be explained on the assumption that they have developed for communication in face-to-face interaction . |