Example sentences of "[Wh det] was described [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The product sounds exactly like a sketch that Amstrad issued at the launch of the PDA , and which was described as a possible future direction . |
| 2 | The bride and the groom , now dressed in their new clothes , stood together on a plank covered with a white cloth which was described as a " seed harrow " ( poruva ) . |
| 3 | Chlorosis , which was described as an anaemia and commonly referred to as the ‘ green sickness ’ because of the appearance of its victims , was regarded by doctors as a middle class ailment , contracted by women who led an idle , self-indulgent life . |
| 4 | The government of China denounced the project and on April 29 Xinhua accused Taiwan of helping to fund the vessel , conduct which was described as an " open provocation " . |
| 5 | In fact there is some allophonic evidence that supports the two-phoneme analysis : we find this in the occurrence of glottalisation ( which was described at the end of Chapter 6 ) . |
| 6 | With metals it is essentially due to the operation of the dislocation mechanism which was described in the last chapter ; we shall discuss how this works in Chapter 9 . |
| 7 | * Life-Style ( or " psychographics " ) — which was described in an earlier chapter as a reflection of deeper sociological . |
| 8 | The cricket chairman , Brian Close , after what was described as a ‘ well-briefed ’ report invited comments . |
| 9 | Although Groupe Bollore was identified as the cartel 's ringleader , 13 other European shipping firms were fined Ecu 300,000 for their lesser role in what was described as a ‘ particularly harmful cartel ’ that had shut out rival shipping lines and led to excessive prices . |
| 10 | While at the height of the Bank Holiday disturbances there was what was described as a ‘ Midnight Riot ’ in the vicinity of Euston Road when a policeman attempted to deal with a disorderly woman who ‘ began to shriek , and … screamed that she was being choked ’ . |
| 11 | For the moment , however , there was still an outside chance that when the nationalist and communist members of what was described as a good-will parliamentary mission from Hanoi — and Ho as President — arrived in the more liberal and relaxed atmosphere of Paris an understanding might have been reached . |
| 12 | This was erm well we were at County Hall of course and er subsequently we erm , they built this what was described as a derelict aircraft carrier and |
| 13 | The YSP in late January approved what was described as the completion of the final stage of the local elections , but on April 13 it was reported that thousands had demonstrated in Aden to protest over the defeat of the capital 's mayor , Naji Othman , in what was described as a delayed election there which had enabled the YSP leadership to secure the return of its own preferred candidate . |
| 14 | On the same day the Pretoria city council agreed to open a number of municipal facilities to all races and to end the whites ' monopoly of the central trading areas in what was described as a " courageous move " by The Times , given the extent of the Conservative Party 's support in Pretoria . |
| 15 | Escalating what was described as a " financial war " with Singapore , the head of the Kuala Lumpur stock exchange warned on Dec. 29 , 1989 , that he would not recognize a new market in Malaysian shares about to be launched in Singapore . |
| 16 | Between 20 and 60 people were said to remain in detention following what was described as a failed coup attempt on Jan. 8-9 by Afar politician Ali Aref Bourhan . |
| 17 | Schalck-Golodkowski had eventually fled to the West in December 1989 [ see pp. 37107 ; 37172 ] and had since lived in what was described as a luxurious house close to BND headquarters outside the Bavarian city of Munich . |
| 18 | And it was thought that the movement in England and Wales in the late 1960s , towards the extension of teachers ' centres was an attempt to create what was described as a focus for teacher renewal . |
| 19 | Early in 1991 he called on Arabs and Muslims to persuade the Allies to declare a cease-fire ; in July he saw both Tareq Aziz and President Mubarak in an attempt to intercede ; and in the following month his efforts continued , in what was described as a ‘ last-ditch mediation effort ’ . |
| 20 | 3,000 pups and 600-700 males were taken , in what was described as a totally disorganized operation . |
| 21 | Children were evacuated from the village of Georgievka , within the contaminated area , in what was described as a " precautionary measure " . |
| 22 | I think Lazlo introduced this , to us , very refreshing sort of sound that he wanted to achieve and we were able at the beginning to quite take people by surprise with this what was described as a young , fresh sound , and we did quite a number of recordings . |
| 23 | Some of them chanted ‘ Gorby , Gorby ’ in what was described as the largest protest in 35 years . |
| 24 | Most of the theatres Warner had acquired were in what was described as the ‘ populous East ’ and especially in Pennsylvania , New Jersey , and New York and it could be claimed that the studio knew and needed to know more about industrial America than some of its rivals . |
| 25 | He became styled ‘ seneschal of Aquitaine in August 1280 ( or senescallus principalis ) ; his actions were supervised by a small council at Bordeaux , and by what was described as the ‘ court of Gascony ’ . |
| 26 | Again , neither these comments nor what was described as the least desirable eventuality ‘ the establishment of a Communist-dominated , Moscow-oriented state in Indo-China ’ , seem inaccurate or unreasonable : although it may be argued that the inherent fault was to assume that this represented the limit of Ho 's power and appeal . |
| 27 | The pleas were entered at an earlier court which heard the charges arose out of the removal and subsequent sale of gents clothing from the store as well as what was described as the ‘ creaming off ’ of cash from sales at the counter . |
| 28 | In an unexpected encounter , South African President F. W. de Klerk held 90 minutes of talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze in what was described as the highest-level meeting ever held between their two governments . |
| 29 | The YSP in late January approved what was described as the completion of the final stage of the local elections , but on April 13 it was reported that thousands had demonstrated in Aden to protest over the defeat of the capital 's mayor , Naji Othman , in what was described as a delayed election there which had enabled the YSP leadership to secure the return of its own preferred candidate . |
| 30 | Some reports suggested that it had survived what was described as the fourth attempted coup since Bashir took power from the government of Sadiq el-Mahdi in June 1989 [ see p. 36728 ] . |