Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] [adv] describe [subord] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The poor book entry for 1783 helpfully gives us her age as 48 , and she is variously described as living at ‘ Coniger ’ , ‘ Cowards Batch ’ and ‘ Nail Street ’ — all within the Trinity area . |
| 2 | I think it 's best described as wet and warm . |
| 3 | The profile of this short-lived low-level blast cloud is supposed to look something like that of a clump of fir trees , so it 's sometimes described as ‘ cypressoid ’ . |
| 4 | It is generally described as lax , that is , not articulated with much energy . |
| 5 | It is variously described as ‘ health and right reason ’ , the ‘ wholesome ’ , the ‘ healthy and unvitiated ’ , and characterized by ‘ unalterable standards of right and wrong ’ ( Goodman , The Oscar Wilde File , 78 , 1 33 , 1 34 ) . |
| 6 | It is often described as ‘ critical ’ , ‘ systematic ’ , ‘ rational ’ or ‘ methodic ’ doubt . |
| 7 | It is often described as ‘ whickering ’ , a pretty good term once you 've heard it but not a lot of good if you have n't . |
| 8 | From 1266 onwards he is regularly described as magister in official records , indicating that he too was recognized as a rabbi within the Jewish community . |
| 9 | He is frequently described as ‘ having the stoop of an ageing crop-picker and the face of a curious little boy ’ — which may have been true 30 years ago , but now belongs to the discard-tray with other caricatures : caricatures , as Oscar Wilde observed , are compliments that mediocrity pays to genius . |
| 10 | The provincial Assembly in Kosovo on May 23 refused the resignation of Jusuf Zejnulahu , the President of the Kosovo Executive Council [ see p. 37382 , where he is incorrectly described as Chairman of the provincial Assembly ] , and of nine other ethnic-Albanian members of his government . |