Example sentences of "might be described [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This chapter discusses these forms of the logical schema and also shows how the data structures might be described to the database . |
| 2 | Now however she was standing , part of what might be described as a lively merry family scene , upon the landing , watching the descent of the divan bed from the second floor . |
| 3 | In practice , the new narrative is based in large part on what might be described as a broader concept of realism , one which takes account of the complex , multifaceted nature of reality . |
| 4 | It might be described as a simplified mepacrine , although it belonged to a substantially different chemical class . |
| 5 | The tort might be described as a species of private nuisance , namely unreasonable interference with the victim 's rights to use the highway . |
| 6 | Clean , the front pickup is warm but clear , something perhaps between a Strat and a Gretsch , while the treble unit puts out what might be described as a more cultured version of a PAF . |
| 7 | There are no nation states , or if there are , then Iceland might be the exception that proves the rule : where territorial state boundaries are coterminous with what might be described as a ‘ nation ’ . |
| 8 | It is a thick volume measuring approximately 8½ins. by 6½ins. , squarish , and for everyday purposes might be described as a quarto . |
| 9 | This characteristic is different from sympathy which might be described as a warm rosy glow of a feeling of identification , that lends itself to being paralysed by sorrow , overwhelmed with shared worry , and joyful too . |
| 10 | The second is what might be described as a pathology of the positions ( solipsism , and so on ) adopted by those philosophers who accept the experiential explanation . |
| 11 | Altogether this led to an effect which might be described as a tapering of market opportunities , and it was sharpened as international growth rates decelerated in the early 1970s . |
| 12 | In many more cases , once a plaintiff discovers that there are assets in a State he will wish ( and sometimes be enabled by the very presence of the assets ) to commence proceedings in the courts of that State ; there is what might be described as a ‘ jurisdiction-fishing expedition ’ . |
| 13 | Most visitors to vadinamia are aware that , as they approach the planets territorial space , they will have to pass through what might be described as a sort of gauntlet . |
| 14 | Where this assessment is incorrect , the result might be described as a ponderous or patronising style . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | in another review of the criminal statistics , F. H. McClintock and N. H. Avison also direct us towards the relative stability in recorded crime levels between 1900 and 1914 which , they suggest , ‘ might be described as the stable but carefree Edwardian era ’ . |
| 17 | At this point , then , the Chinese were the indispensable sponsors of Vietnamese independence and Ho himself is supposed to have assured them that he would work under their auspices and as a member of what might be described as the Vietnamese patriotic front . |
| 18 | It then becomes possible to formulate generalizations on what might be described as the sociolinguistic typology of low-status versus relatively standardized , higher-status phonological systems . |
| 19 | The first book , The Lost Dominion ( 1924 ) , by a former ICS officer , Bennet Kennedy , is a powerfully reasoned defence of the pax Britannica and administrative autocracy , and might be described as an unusually uninhibited expression of the ICS point of view . |
| 20 | The author of the book Trio ] and Error ( Hamish Hamilton , £10.95 ) which puts the case for those found guilty of the Guildford-related offences is Mr Robert Kee , who might be described as an old-fashioned television-documentary liberal . |
| 21 | The extension of policy since the passing of the initial Monopolies and Restrictive Practices ( Inquiry and Control ) Act of 1948 can be seen as part of a gradual and continuous process , which has led , in what might be described as an eclectic or ad hoc manner , to the complex pattern of current legislation , culminating in the Competition Act of 1980 . |