Example sentences of "[noun] has be described [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The technique has been described in detail previously . |
| 2 | Satyāgraha has been described in a variety of ways . |
| 3 | The same kind of damage has been described for the golden eagle feeding on roe deer ( Ratcliffe & Rowe , 1979 ) : when it penetrates the carcase through the shoulder region , it breaks through the scapula so as to extract the soft internal organs . |
| 4 | Papert has been described by Marvin Minsky , director of the artificial intelligence laboratory at MIT , as the ‘ greatest of all living educationalists ’ . |
| 5 | The route has been described to death and there have been so many accounts of the leading objects , I am inclined to be silent till I reach some spots where fewer pens have essayed to give to the world their portraiture , allowing the sketches engraved to leave my mite of tribute alike to the noble natural architecture of the Isle of Caves and the art treasures in the Isle of Ionic Crosses . |
| 6 | Staffa , Iona and I never get on well together in the height of the tourist season , I know exactly what JTR meant in saying ‘ the route has been described to death ’ . |
| 7 | The experience has been described as a sense that the self is worthless , the world meaningless and the future pointless ( Beck , 1973 ) . |
| 8 | Narrative has been described as a primary act of mind ; children construct the world through story . |
| 9 | That level of income has been described by the Prime Minister and the Government as a generous settlement for students , but the citizens advice bureaux provide a very different description . |
| 10 | There are many recorded cases of barn owls living in caves ( Levinson , 1982 ) , and one case has been described of seven active roosts in a single cave in South Africa ( Levinson , 1982 ) . |
| 11 | The striking resemblance to graft v host disease in our case has been described in cytomehalovirus colitis and its occurence here in a non-transplant patient shows it to be a true feature of cytomegalovirus colitis . |
| 12 | Such poor quality teaching has been described in similar terms in a range of reports by the HMI on different age sectors within the education service — on primary and middle schools , for instance — and continues to be a consistent feature of their ongoing commentary on the quality of the present teaching force . |
| 13 | Menstruation has been described as ‘ the weeping of the disappointed uterus ’ . |
| 14 | A similar effect of DNJ on integrin mediated cell adhesion to collagens has been described for several myoblast cell lines . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The experiment has been described by Hazel Allen ( 1982 ) . |
| 17 | C.D.C. has been described as ‘ a mature business development strategy which is being actively pursued throughout every sector of the global economy by companies seeking to establish and build a profitable enterprise by delighting the customer . ’ |
| 18 | And The First Wives Club has been described as ‘ the Thelma and Louise of the corporate world ’ . |
| 19 | The Oxfordshire Club has been described by some experts as unique and a course for the twenty first century … what makes it so special is a mixture of three styles … of classic English with trees … of links with sand dunes … and of American type holes landscaped by lakes … it 's been designed by Rees Jones |
| 20 | The move to the Inn on the Lake seems to have met with a favourable response from students ; the pub has been described as a ‘ nice place to work ’ . |
| 21 | Northern Ireland has been described as a society under siege , a society where there is a problem for every solution ! |
| 22 | The draft report of the Cadbury Committee has been described as the opening of a debate . |
| 23 | The use of the life-history in modern sociology began with the Chicago School of the 1930s , whose work has been described on p. 68 . |
| 24 | The plaintiffs ' next contention has been described as the proprietary argument to the effect that Mr. and Mrs. Tully are constructive trustees for the plaintiffs of the moneys claimed in the action , that a court of equity will not hesitate to protect and preserve a trust fund in interlocutory proceedings on the principle that , if the trust fund disappears , it will turn out that equity has been invoked to no purpose and that a claim for privilege can not be successfully raised against an order which permits a plaintiff to search for and to seize his own property , including property which is in the possession of the defendant . |
| 25 | Activation and deactivation of integrins as a result of stimulation of other integrin and non-integrin receptors has been described in platelets and lymphocytes but has not yet been studied in hepatocytes . |
| 26 | A further type of presumed NMDA receptor-dependent LTP has been described in which potentiation occurs not only at those synapses where there is coincident pre- and postsynaptic activity , but extends to synapses made by concurrently active terminals onto neighbouring cells , whether or not these are active . |
| 27 | Finally , an input-specific AP5-resistant component of LTP has been described in area CA1 165 . |
| 28 | Dealing first with ( a ) , the normal modus operandi in the case of new issues by public companies has been described in Chapter 13 : a would-be shareholder will apply in response to the prospectus , listing particulars or circular ; if the application is accepted he will be sent an allotment letter ; and this completes the needful agreement to become a member and shareholder . |
| 29 | Guitarist heading for hall of fame A pupil of John Williams , Nicola Hall has been described as an extraordinary musical talent , reports Kenny Mathieson |
| 30 | 2.17 This exercise has been described in a different way by Lord Diplock in Mallett v McMonagle [ 1970 ] AC 166 at p174 : The purpose of an award of damages under the Fatal Accidents Act is to provide the widow and other dependants of the deceased with a capital sum , which , with prudent management , will be sufficient to supply them with material benefits of the same standards and duration as would have been provided for them out of the earnings of the deceased had he not been killed by the tortious act of the defendant , credit being given for the value of any material benefits which will accrue to them ( otherwise than as the fruits of insurance ) as a result of his death . |