Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [be] describe as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither of them could be described as a sobering influence . |
| 2 | " You could be described as an obstinate bitch ? " |
| 3 | Er , but certainly , the there was in , as I say , in my family , there was this , there was , well I mean , I think perhaps , she would be described as a black sheep . |
| 4 | Other Council 's like Harlow do have central policy units which is what we would be described as , because people recognition that it 's important that you need to have people who are outside departments looking at the organisation as a whole , what it 's doing , where it 's going , how it 's being influenced by external organisation 's , i.e. what the Health Service are doing locally , or what the Government 's doing more significantly , erm , I think you need people looking around to see how the Council 's affected and what , what were doing in and taking an overall view and responding in that way and that 's the kind of thing that we do and that 's why were here . |
| 5 | In this sense they can be described as policy decisions . |
| 6 | In Texas it may be described as the past constantly almost catching up with the future , leaving no stable present time . |
| 7 | Q24 Dependent on how a product is purchased , it may be described as a consumer product or as an industrial product . |
| 8 | It may be described as the dialectical relationship between the broad objectivity of the socio-political circumstances of an age , embodied in the chorus , and the assertive subjectivity of the individual . |
| 9 | One of the most popular demands of ‘ boy labour ’ and other sympathetic reformers , or perhaps it should be described as an aspiration , for that is what it was , referred to the creation of ‘ a satisfactory race of citizens ’ . |
| 10 | It might be described as a simplified mepacrine , although it belonged to a substantially different chemical class . |
| 11 | Not that it could be described as light reading ; there is a lot of heavily theoretical material within its pages . |
| 12 | To everyone 's surprise they now find this somewhat unusual repertoire much in demand , to such an extent indeed that it could be described as ‘ cult ’ . |
| 13 | The style of the poem is in many ways seventeenth-century , though there are plenty of resemblances to later hymns ; but it could be described as an emblem-poem in the seventeenth-century tradition . |
| 14 | It could be described as the French equivalent of our potted meat — although it is very different in texture and taste . |
| 15 | It could be described as the Fordist method of international political regulation . |
| 16 | He could be described as an aquatic Concorde . |
| 17 | He could be described as the George Best of rugby except that his fame is confined , outside of Australia , mainly to those who follow his sport , rather than Best 's . |
| 18 | It may well be that he could be described as a statutory tenant ; but that description would not itself accurately define his precise position , for he was a statutory tenant against whom a final order had been made , under which possession was to be delivered up on a fixed date , 3 April 1950 , he having died on the previous 8 March . |
| 19 | Very occasionally a small child would throw a tantrum when denied something , and it would be described as chan . |
| 20 | It can be described as the psychology of absolute consciousness , seeing consciousness not only as an awareness an individual has of him or her ‘ self , but an eternal all-pervasive principle — the highest reality , with all things being manifestations of it . |
| 21 | On the one hand , it can be described as a linguistic text : X contains simple words , more abstract than concrete nouns , etc . |
| 22 | The Belfast community is a broadly monodialectal one , but within this it can be described as a divergent-dialect community ( Johnston , 1983 ) . |
| 23 | It can be described as a fact-finding or special committee which is short lived and having achieved its purpose , reports back to the parent body and then ceases to exist ; |