Example sentences of "[adv] be describe [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Curiously , the cover of ‘ Shepherd Moons ’ features Enya in which can only be described as an opera gown — she could be twenty or forty but her delicate beauty is intact . |
| 32 | After lunch on the Sunday before his Chanel show , eaten with his workroom staff and assistants in the workers ' canteen on the top floor of the rue Cambon , Lagerfeld holds what can only be described as an old-fashioned levée . |
| 33 | And in pursuit of that perspective , that outlook the Communist Party launched a series of what can only be described as ad adventurist er attacks on the new Kuomintang authorities . |
| 34 | Diagnostics report what can only be described as an — invasion . |
| 35 | However , the Sports Council for Wales is taking what can only be described as a very aggressive approach to this and a number of other sensitive recreation/environment issues at present . |
| 36 | If the Walled Garden and Garden Cottage were to be transferred to the ownership of Oatridge Agricultural because of the previous set out in the above piece of legislation this would have very serious consequences to the capital value of what can only be described as the department 's most valued property asset . |
| 37 | On behalf of the Opposition , and indeed the whole House , I wish to express our sympathy to the victims and their families of what can only be described as a crime against humanity . |
| 38 | It was joy for QE1 player Davy Clements who knocked in a 100 clearance in his B Division match against Centre Spot 's Mal Aiken while in the A Division Ballygomartin 's Billy Millar potted what can only be described as a wonder blue , pink and then missed a straight black for a similar break . |
| 39 | After what could only be described as a very spirited fight a small but brilliantly coloured koi of about 7lb came to the net and I remember looking at it with disbelief that such a small fish could have pulled so hard . |
| 40 | What followed can only be described as a wild west show , with representatives chasing it around the Norfolk showground , much tot he amusement of everyone in the vicinity . |
| 41 | It can only be described as a record breaking achievement . |
| 42 | Shadow Environment Secretary Chris Smith said the government 's implementation of the EC Directive on Access to Environmental Information could only be described as " minimalist " , allowing companies maximum scope to claim commercial confidentiality . |
| 43 | They will always be eligible bank bills and not true trade bills and their nomenclature in this context can only be described as a kind of shorthand and corresponds to the requirement that they must be drawn for transaction not capital purposes . |
| 44 | Looked at more closely still the dissolved athlete would become even more inscrutable than usual and could only be described with a set of equations which guessed where his component particles might be . |
| 45 | It should by now be clear that the language behaviour of young black Londoners of Caribbean background can only be described with reference to patterns of code-switching , between the two perceived varieties " ordinary English " ( which in practice means London English ) and " Patois " , which I have argued is a variety of Jamaican Creole . |
| 46 | It can only be described in terms of its organization according to an economy of logical tensions or strictures , of demands and constraints . |
| 47 | The ‘ duchy of Aquitaine ’ in the mid-thirteenth century can only be described in relation to the kingdom of France . |
| 48 | The electronic structures of atoms can only be described in quantum terms , and are now well understood . |
| 49 | Similarly , broad factors such as the state of morale will again only be described by negative features such as absenteeism , stoppages , strikes , low quality output and so on . |
| 50 | In the Lewis Papers , Warren remarked , ‘ With his passing we lose him who may perhaps be described as the hero of our saga … |
| 51 | the cable that was demonstrated in the magazine was a little like a lobster claw cable , or could perhaps be described as a three-way plait . |
| 52 | The distinctive features of concentration , conglomeration and internationalization as they developed into the 1980s can perhaps be described as their scope , scale , management , balance and volatility . |
| 53 | He has nothing left but the limited interest granted to him by what may perhaps be described as the indulgence of the court under section 5(2) of the Act of 1920 . |
| 54 | The colonial form of government can perhaps be described as a ruling bureaucracy in the sense of government by appointed officials only slightly modified by the gradual emergence of consultative , advisory and legislative councils . |
| 55 | In the present context we will only consider one fairly simple one , which could perhaps be described as ‘ limited agreement ’ or ‘ response with reservations ’ . |
| 56 | This was the Orontea of Pietro ( Antonio ) Cesti ( 1623–69 ) , a newcomer to Venice who on the strength of this work alone was described by Salvator Rosa shortly afterwards as ‘ now the glory and splendour of the secular stage ’ . |
| 57 | The staining procedures outlined above are described in Section 4.1.1 . |
| 58 | ( 6 ) showed that , beside TFIIIB and TFIIIC , TBP is required for in vitro transcription of classical polIII genes , as had already been described for yeast and vertebrate U6 snRNA transcription by RNA polymerase III ( 5 , 9 , 10 , 11 ) . |
| 59 | ‘ I think it 's like foreign lagers becoming quite popular in this country , English beers have a growing reputation abroad , ’ he added.Although the Italians liked the taste of Tolly 's 1048 Cantab beer , they were not so impressed with the brewery 's taste in labels.The controversial naked lady , the Bacchante , on the label of Cantab beer , had already been described by Cambridge students as ‘ sexist ’ and the Italians felt it was ‘ not very English ’ . |
| 60 | The guest turns out to be Sir Henry Harcourt-Reilly , " a very great doctor " , who in a role half-priestly and half-analytical reconciles Edward and Lavinia even though their marriage has already been described by him as that of |