Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] described [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sister to HELIOS the sun , and Silene the moon , Eos is described as ever-youthful and lovely . |
| 2 | Haldingham ( later Holdingham ) is a hamlet in the parish of Lafford ( later Sleaford ) , Lincolnshire , and Richard is described as of either place in order to make his identity clear to people unacquainted with Haldingham . |
| 3 | The USSR KGB was described as " directing , co-ordinating and controlling " the activities of republican bodies [ for formation of Russian Federation KGB see above ] . |
| 4 | INJURED North West 200 rider Jim Courtney was described as ‘ satisfactory ’ in Coleraine hospital following his crash at the circuit today . |
| 5 | But prospects for Exeter are described as ‘ excellent . ’ |
| 6 | Car makers Ford , and the leisure corporation Grand Metropolitan , were singled out as among the better examples , while statements by British Airways , BAT , Hanson and Allied Lyons were described as " of little value " . |
| 7 | Even as a child Eva is described as bright eyed , full of life , the apple of everybody 's eye . |
| 8 | Nancy is described as having recently moved from this ‘ remote but genteel suburb ’ to Field Lane , OT 13 . |
| 9 | In paragraph 2.2 he reminds everybody that in his first report ’ the state of policing in Derbyshire was described as mixed but all too often one of deterioration in infrastructure and morale . ' |
| 10 | Conditions in camps run by Croats , Moslems , and Serbs were described as equally deplorable ; Serbs were found to be running the majority of such camps . |
| 11 | " In a joint Anglo-American paper on the crises , the Shah was described as " well-meaning , naturally well disposed towards Britain and the US , aware of the Communist danger , but vacillating and weak . |
| 12 | The meeting in Minsk was described as intended to prevent the splitting apart of the Slav republics in the conditions of the Soviet Union 's disintegration . |
| 13 | This led to an invasion of courting couples in his doorway , looking at the wonderments of the bright peep , and the Trongate being described as ‘ among the best-lit streets in Europe ’ . |
| 14 | Then as an example of actual error , in the chapter on Legionnaire 's disease , Joseph McDade is described as re-examining diseased human tissue and discovering multiplying colonies of disease organisms . |
| 15 | ACTRESS Audrey Hepburn was described as being ‘ very chipper ’ after surgery to remove a cancerous tumour from her colon . |
| 16 | In this Windle and Maidwell are described as glass sellers , whilst Thomas Gunson has become a pawnbroker . |
| 17 | Mr Ashworth is described as slim with short dark straight hair , a moustache and red and blue flower tattoos on both arms . |
| 18 | Johnson 's described as slim , six feet tall , with short fair hair . |
| 19 | Bush was described as having lost 12 to 13 lb in weight and admitted to feeling considerable mental and physical fatigue . |
| 20 | While most western languages have subject , verb , object , others in the east of Europe are described as free . |
| 21 | Pulling down the shutters of an empty shop or kiosk , we should remind ourselves , is what would today in the aftermath of Brixton and Toxteth be described as ‘ looting ’ . |
| 22 | He refers to latent inhibition training as producing a CS-US association , the US being described as consisting of ‘ no event ’ ( see also Hall et al . |
| 23 | Ledwith and Crothers were described as window cleaners , and it was alleged that while one of them was inside a telephone box and the other was outside , P. C.s Roberts and Pearce arrested them and took them to the Bridewell . |
| 24 | His silence about Megara is not complete : Pericles is described as telling the Athenians that they will not be going to war over a trifle , if they refuse to rescind the Megarian decree as the Spartans demand . |
| 25 | Lewis is described as black , 5ft 7in tall , with long dreadlocks . |
| 26 | In the 1150s Bishop Henry of Winchester was described as buying up statues all over Rome which he had shipped back to England . |
| 27 | In school , George was described as ‘ aggressive … he wanders about instead of getting on with his work … he wo n't conform … he 's like his brother … generally he disturbs other children . |
| 28 | George was described as boot and shoe maker , born in Thurlstone , in the 1841 and 1851 census returns , but in 1861 was recorded as cordwainer , born in Penistone . |
| 29 | Charles was described as temperate in his consumption of both food and drink ( in an age and culture where gluttony and heavy drinking were often regularly practised by those who could afford it ) , and particularly careful when it came to alcohol . |
| 30 | At Evening Prayer Charles was described as among ‘ the greatest of Kings and best of men ’ . |