Example sentences of "who is described [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was probably not the Bernard listed in 1522 , for one of the copyholders , occupying half a virgate , was Joan Pace , who is described as the widow of Bernard Turney , while the lease of the manor was renewed without a break until the eighteenth century . |
| 2 | More importantly , a tombstone from Old Penrith , some distance south of Carlisle , refers to Flavius Martius , who is described as a senator and quaestor of the civitas Carvetiorum . |
| 3 | He is sitting outside a church that is dedicated to Saint Francis who is described as ‘ brother of the poor ’ , ‘ talker with birds ’ . |
| 4 | Clauses are sometimes encountered which state that a referee is to be appointed who is described as an expert and then told that he will act as an arbitrator , or , alternatively , that the referee is an arbitrator who will act as an expert . |
| 5 | He contrasts the moral ideas of humanity with those of the deity , who is described in terms reminiscent of Voltaire : ‘ Why have we sympathies that make the best of us so afraid of inflicting pain and sorrow , which yet we see dealt about so lavishly by the supreme governor ? ’ |
| 6 | And Nicholas Coleridge , king of the posh glossies , has appointed a new editor of Vogue who is described by the Daily Mail as ‘ more hippy than haute couture ’ . |