Example sentences of "describe [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tracy has a thing I can only describe as Non-specific pain . |
| 2 | When I look back I realize just what a hard time Mother must have had because she did not enjoy what one might describe as robust health . |
| 3 | Yes , I , I 'd give you two , one is my favourite of all shrub roses which is Fantan la tour which has what one can only describe as loosened sort of shaggy shell pink flowers with the most exquisite perfume , it 's a , it 's an untidy flower like the old shrub roses really should be the best of them erm and a very pale shell pink , a wonderful variety , not particularly repeat flowering , relatively short flowering season but so wonderful when it is in flower and the other one , er she says she does n't like red , now is n't really red , it 's a very very deep reddish purple and it 's a variety called Tuscany Superb and I grow Tuscany Superb in my garden alongside er some fennel , a foliage fennel plant and the feathery fennel together with , almost the aniseed aroma of the fennel together with these deep deep purple flowers of Tuscany Superb is absolutely wonderful , it 's actually on the edge of my herb garden . |
| 4 | They have the same four basic options we described for general ownership policy : state ownership ; specific support for or discrimination against locals or foreigners ; or neutrality . |
| 5 | Dr Runcie said the new rules ‘ tried to steer a course between what I described as legislative schism and a measure which would reduce to second class membership those who find themselves unable to recognise women priests ’ . |
| 6 | Angered by Hoover 's decision to switch 400 jobs from Dijon to Cambuslang , Mr Mitterrand told a television audience that the 11 other nations would eventually force Britain to stop what he described as unfair competition by opting out of the social chapter . |
| 7 | In an attempt to counter such criticisms Melancia had , during a visit to Portugal in June 1990 , launched an unprecedented attack against what he described as Chinese interference in the internal affairs of Macao . |
| 8 | Within a few days they were ready to invite Poole to a dinner of roast pork and potatoes — cooked in the baker 's oven because the cottage had none that could be used — and at the end of January a letter to John Prior Estlin described with quiet enthusiasm the clear brook which ran before the cottage door , a pretty garden — ‘ large enough to find us vegetables and employment ’ — and an orchard lying beyond which was about to become home for some ducks and geese , as well as two pigs . |
| 9 | Take the case of Essex Junior School in Newham described in Spare Rib issue 55 : |
| 10 | The idea was Rupert Sheldrake 's hypothesis of formative causation , which he described in New Sciente of Life in 1981 and outlined in New Scientist in 18 June of that year ( vol 90 , p 766 ) . |
| 11 | At the time tomato purée for the restaurant was preserved in champagne bottles which were then sterilised — a method which was demonstrated to me by the cook at a pensione in Anacapri where I stayed during the summer of 1952 , and which I described in Italian Food . |
| 12 | Who is the traveller who can describe from ocular observation the interior of that building ? |
| 13 | We can describe by mathematical modelling , certain extreme cases ; the random chain of equal links , the chain with bond angles , the extended chain and the perfect crystal . |
| 14 | Editor , — Graham Butland describes with good intention and formidable lack of insight the procedures that will destroy general practice . |
| 15 | Passages such as verses three and four in ‘ The Missing ’ which describes with great nostalgia which I think might be called sentimentality , the joys of the past now gone . |
| 16 | Describes with mingled humour and pathos the successive tenants , who are in various lines of business , of a shop ‘ on the Surrey side of the water ’ . |
| 17 | On page 306 of the first volume ( Remington & Co. , London , 1893 , no translator credited ) Du Camp describes in great detail the woman on whom Emma Bovary was based . |
| 18 | Right , later on it describes in enormous detail how the president is chosen and the electoral system and then under section two it gives several specific powers that the president has and I would like at least one contribution from this packed assembly here . |
| 19 | She describes in precise detail the deserted country road in Mayobridge , County Down , where a mine blew up the Land-Rover he was travelling in . |
| 20 | Defining the importance of the Ruhr area , this book describes in meticulous detail individual raids . |
| 21 | Informix also launched what it is describing as graphical framework services that is its OpenCase/Toolbus product based on Softbench technology licensed from Hewlett-Packard Co , an encapsulator for Toolbus so that third-party vendors can encapsulate their tools to run with this software backplane and the Informix 4GL for Toolbus . |
| 22 | The 25 pictures on temporary show in Glasgow 's Converse Gallery are a sample of about 200 photographs and instruments of torture from a Belgrade exhibition countering what sympathisers describe as Western censorship of the horror and cruelty suffered by Serbian minorities in the civil war . |
| 23 | His mother made the agonising decision to leave her husband and family to get her little boy away from a war zone these people describe as sheer hell . |
| 24 | This would amount to admitting that governments can not save for the future , a view that some describe as pre-emptive capitulation . |
| 25 | Peter van Soest starts Nutritional Ecology of the Ruminant with a brief historical resume of the study of ruminant nutrition and the development of food analysis and then moves through a series of chapters which describe with great clarity the mathematics involved in the measurement of throughput rate and digestibility . |
| 26 | Casting discretion to the wind , there seems little point in not describing in small detail each stage of the given instructions . |
| 27 | Each year , a summary volume is published , describing in broad outline the main findings of the fieldwork the previous year ( Jowell and Airey 1984 ; Jowell and Witherspoon 1985 ; Jowell et al. |
| 28 | Raymond Williams in his discussion of country house poems , specifically those of Jonson and Carew , observes a tendency to obscure labour , and to describe as natural bounty that which is obtained by work . |
| 29 | It is interesting to note that , although Sylvia was able to recall the events of that fateful afternoon and to describe in great detail the sights , sounds and emotions which prevailed , she had no idea at all of how long the two of them lay on the ground before her mother regained consciousness . |
| 30 | CASE III is a teacher/researcher collaboration to describe in rich detail the teaching skills required to realise the project aims . |