Example sentences of "[been] described by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Papert has been described by Marvin Minsky , director of the artificial intelligence laboratory at MIT , as the ‘ greatest of all living educationalists ’ . |
| 2 | The concept of an " NHS nursing home " for elderly severely mentally ill people in Newcastle has been described by Fairbairn et al ( 1986 ) , and a " hospice approach " to the treatment of " advanced dementia " within a general hospital in the USA has been described by Volicer et al ( 1986 ) . |
| 3 | Further generating techniques for this case have been described by Kitchingham ( 1984 ) . |
| 4 | Its use for cultured human M1 oocytes has been described by Wramsby and Liedholm ( 33 ) . |
| 5 | The fascinating details of this historical trend have been described by Arnold Palmer . |
| 6 | The euphoric effects of fasting have often been described by mystics , hunger strikers and others who have spiritual or political reasons for their actions . |
| 7 | Die Grünen has been described by Petra Kelly as an ‘ anti-party party ’ , and getting into bed with them might be a guarantee of ending up on the floor . |
| 8 | The relationships between coalification and oil and gas formation are well known and have been described by M. Teichmüller ( 1971 ) , Bartenstein and R. Teichmüller ( 1974 ) , Tissot and Welte ( 1978 ) , Hunt ( 1979 ) , Héroux et al. ( 1979 ) and M. Teichmüller ( 1982 ) . |
| 9 | The ‘ deregulation ’ thesis has been described by Clune thus : |
| 10 | A.agassizii has been known to science for over 100 years , having been described by Steindachner in 1875 . |
| 11 | It is the latter case that has been described by Chandrasekhar and Xanthopoulos ( 1986 b ) in which there is an extension beyond the horizon at which contains a time-like singularity analogous to the ring singularity of the Kerr solution at . |
| 12 | Different problems but with similar consequences are occurring in the Philippines and have been described by Myers ( 1988 ) , who points out that the mainstay of the country 's economy is based on its natural resources , especially its forests . |
| 13 | This produces a ‘ borrowing ’ from English which has been described by Battison ( 1978 ) for ASL , and Woll ( 1981 ) for BSL . |
| 14 | Full details of the method have been described by Hauser and Ernst ( 1989 a ) . |
| 15 | These forms , which have been described by King and Williams ( 1949 ) , are characteristic of tideless seas , such as the Mediterranean and the Baltic . |
| 16 | In the Turkish occupied region , the reduction in tourist traffic aggravated an economic crisis begun by the collapse in the latter part of 1990 of a London-based conglomerate , Polly Peck International , and the preferment of fraud charges in the United Kingdom against its Turkish Cypriot chairman , Asil Nadir , who had been described by Denktash as the " economic commander " in the Turkish-occupied area . |
| 17 | Silvicultural practices vary enormously and have been described by D M Smith ( 1986 ) and Lorimer ( 1982 ) . |
| 18 | The various land-uses that are practised in African savannas have been described by Okigbo ( 1985 ) and include nomadic herding , shifting cultivation on a 2–3 year basis , semi-permanent cultivation or rotational bushfallow , intensive dryland agriculture involving rotations and intercropping , and more intensive flood-land cultivation where small-scale irrigation is practised . |
| 19 | First , however , I have to declare myself in favour of the general principle of a national curriculum , which has been described by Kenneth Baker as the central feature of the new Act . |
| 20 | In the Boulonnais , Silurian shales have been described by Wallace ( 1968 ) as untectonised where they are overthrust by Devonian and Carboniferous rocks . |
| 21 | The FMI , launched in May 1982 , has been described by Gray and Jenkins ( 1986 , p. 173 ; 1985 , p. 124 ) as ‘ a general approach rather than a single strategy ’ , and as ‘ an umbrella under which a new management philosophy is being developed ’ . |
| 22 | b Literature The occurrence of psychiatric illness in residential care has recently been described by Ames et al ( 1986 ) among many . |
| 23 | One further method of tension reduction which is of interest has been described by Graff and Mallin ( 1967 ) . |
| 24 | A mixture of heavy oil and water produced in Venezuela , orimulsion has been described by environmentalists as " the world 's dirtiest fuel " because of its high sulphur content . |
| 25 | The purpose of evaluation has been described by Astin and Panos as follows : ‘ the fundamental purpose of evaluation is to produce information that can be used in educational decision making ’ . |
| 26 | In the mouse , a suitable method has been described by Rohrborn and Hansmann ( 22 ) . |
| 27 | The machair landforms have been described by Mather and Ritchie ( 1977 ) and Ritchie ( 1979 ) as hilly , hillocky , undulating and plain and they also state that 87 per cent lie below 50 metres and 18 per cent below 10 metres O.D. Gneiss hills with smooth slopes facing the prevailing winds occur in some localities and blown sand has accumulated up to 100 metres on Eoligarry Hill ( Barra ) and to 150 metres on Pabbay ( Sound of Harris ) . |
| 28 | Earlier he had been described by Downing Street officials as only ‘ a semi-detached member of the government ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ Socialist Realism ’ has been described by Ernst Fischer as implying ‘ the artist 's or writer 's fundamental agreement with the aims of the working class and the emerging socialist world ’ ; in short , this is a stance of political progressivism . |
| 30 | Silvicultural management has been practised since the 1920s , beginning first with regulation of the telling cycle and then the stimulation of natural regeneration by cutting climbers , removing uneconomic species and canopy thinning in the 1930s , as has been described by Kio and Ekwebelam ( 1987 ) . |