Example sentences of "[art] [noun] be [adv] describe as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The test is variously described as " lowering the plaintiff in the estimation of right-thinking people generally " ; " injuring the plaintiff 's reputation by exposing him to hatred , contempt or ridicule " and " tending to make the plaintiff be shunned and avoided " . |
| 2 | The abductors are typically described as ‘ alien beings ’ and the UFO as a ‘ spaceship ’ . |
| 3 | Two other youths seriously injured in the accident were today described as ‘ stable ’ in hospital . |
| 4 | The move was widely described as marking the culmination of the " rejuvenation " of the SPD which , despite its poor performance in the December 1990 general election [ see pp. 37904-05 ] and dissention within the party during 1990 over unification , was currently in government in 10 of the 16 Länder . |
| 5 | And this is n't even a Windows program ; in fact , the interface is best described as basic . |
| 6 | The body is repeatedly described as floating between two states and harbouring contradictory feelings simultaneously . |
| 7 | 1 am , Ribble Valley : The area is sometimes described as Lancashire 's answer to the Yorkshire Dales and , like the Dales , has plenty of farming stock . |
| 8 | The mode is aptly described as ‘ thinking aloud in verse ’ : another way of putting it , reversing the first account given in this paragraph , would be to say that an argument of the mature poet ( consciousness I ) is illustrated and exemplified by a passage of recollected memory which is relived ( in consciousness II ) . |
| 9 | The tramp is then described as having the advantage over Saint Francis of ‘ Not being dead , yet ’ . |
| 10 | Although the direct cause was the tropical storm , the disaster was also described as man-made , in that years of illegal logging had left the area 's mountains bare and prone to mudslides . |
| 11 | The appellant was however described as flat and detached , with no signs of remorse for his offences : he was thought to be developing a personality disorder . |
| 12 | In the nineteenth century the breed was rather mixed and mostly horned , with polled types occurring only very locally , and those of the north were mostly described as ‘ white pied ’ while those of the south were red . |
| 13 | Known as the White Polled in the late nineteenth century , the breed was then described as quiet and gentle , similar in size and growth rate to the Red Poll at a time when the few existing white herds were found mainly in Norfolk and Suffolk . |
| 14 | The names are usually derived from Latin or Greek — ‘ Tyrannosaurus ’ means ‘ tyrant lizard ’ and ‘ rex ’ ‘ king ’ so the animal is appropriately described as King of the tyrant lizards : rex is the specific name , unique to this species . |
| 15 | In the 38 families with compositor daughters , there was evidence of dire poverty in some cases , but the mother was rarely described as working regularly . |