Example sentences of "described [prep] the [num ord] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The USSR Supreme Soviet on May 16 passed what was described as the first unclassified legislation regulating the state security services . |
| 2 | Conversely , to enter the chemical laboratory envisaged in 1606 by Andreas Libavius — a respectable Lutheran humanist , critic of the Paracelsians , and author of what has been described as the first chemical textbook — would be to enter an open house in which the products of the furnace were investigated with a sense of responsibility for the welfare of one 's fellow men . |
| 3 | Iona Technologies Ltd will unveil Orbix — described as the first full implementation of the Common Object Request Broker Architecture — at the Object World trade show in June . |
| 4 | Iona Technologies Ltd will unveil Orbix — described as the first full implementation of the Common Object Request Broker Architecture — at the Object World trade show in June . |
| 5 | In 1833 J. C. Loudon , who has been described as the first architectural journalist , announced that the ‘ great object ’ of his Encyclopaedia of Cottage , Farm and Villa Architecture was ‘ to show how the dwellings of the whole mass of society may be equalized in point of all essential comforts , conveniences and beauties ’ . |
| 6 | SpreadBase is described as the first category-based modelling tool . |
| 7 | Some reports suggested that it had survived what was described as the fourth attempted coup since Bashir took power from the government of Sadiq el-Mahdi in June 1989 [ see p. 36728 ] . |
| 8 | THOUSANDS of young people in the North East are finding a new way to enjoy their weekends they are taking Ecstasy , described as the next best thing to an orgasm . |
| 9 | Ecstasy 's been described as the next best thing to an orgasm , so if your life feels empty it can appear to fill that gap quite nicely . ’ |
| 10 | Cairo is now being described as the next major release of NT , and may well be the release that the market waits for before deciding to commit to NT . |
| 11 | Cairo is now being described as the next major release of NT , and may well be the release that the market waits for before deciding to commit to NT . |
| 12 | The background to the Essex initiative is described in the first annual report for 1981–1982 ( Taylor , 1983 ) as follows : |