Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [is] [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 | And this is n't even a Windows program ; in fact , the interface is best described as basic . |
| 3 | The body is repeatedly described as floating between two states and harbouring contradictory feelings simultaneously . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | The tramp is then described as having the advantage over Saint Francis of ‘ Not being dead , yet ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |