Example sentences of "have [adv] be described [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An alternative system involving nurses has also been described and evaluated ( Catalan et al. 1980a , b ) . |
| 2 | Bihar State is one of the poorest areas of the country and its society has often been described as ‘ feudal ’ . |
| 3 | May Sinclair has frequently been described as shy and scholarly . |
| 4 | If he was able to achieve this it did not augur well for the struggles against the three Indian spinners , who had variously been described as inexperienced and nebulous . |
| 5 | The men who carried out the attack have both been described as white and 25 to 32 years old . |
| 6 | Country houses have often been described as ‘ collective works of art ’ and as one of Britain 's greatest contributions to the visual arts . |
| 7 | The many interesting and sometimes elaborate forms of instinctive behaviour shown by insects have often been described and some have also been explained as simple taxes and kineses or interpreted in more complex ethological terms ( Tinbergen , 1951 ; Baerends , 1959 ; Fraenkel and Gunn , 19612 ; Thorpe , 1963 ; Haskell , 1966 ; Evans , 1966 ; von Frisch , 1967 ; Sudd , 1967 ; Ewing and Manning , 1967 ; Manning , 1972 ) . |
| 8 | The qualities have even been described as ‘ so vague as to be virtually meaningless , at least without being transposed into much more explicit features ’ ( Farmer , 1974 , p. 185 ) . |