Example sentences of "what [pron] describes [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In her letter ( ‘ Punchbag ’ 12 — 18 February ) Mrs H M Presley defends the monarchy and attacks Punch for being cynical : a trait unbecoming in what she describes as a ‘ reputable ’ magazine . |
| 2 | At this point she showed enormous courage by re-assessing her life , and has now struggled through to what she describes as a liberating philosophy of autonomy and self-determination . |
| 3 | Margaret is delighted to be making this return trip on what she describes as a warm and friendly course . |
| 4 | Evert is not feeling comfortable with what she describes as the ‘ finality ’ of the decision , although she does agree with it in principle . |
| 5 | In the company 's variety trials , the set has ranged from what he describes as a good normal 75% of available flowers to as little as 20% . |
| 6 | He had not come back after he had been given general advice , and he had what he describes as an uneasy peace in the relationship with his girlfriend . |
| 7 | As Ives ( 1987 ) has pointed out , the issue of environmental degradation in the Himalaya is extremely complex and has been extensively debated during the 1980s , giving rise to what he describes as the Himalaya Environmental Degradation Theory ( HEDT ) . |
| 8 | Mr De Benedetti 's testimony amounted to a scathing attack on Italy 's political establishment and what he describes as the ‘ climate of extortion ’ imposed by politicians in order to wring bribes out of businesses trying to supply the public sector . |
| 9 | In an entertaining and revealing note which prefaces this recording , the clarinettist Murray Khouri laments the passing of what he describes as the ‘ lyric ’ school of British clarinet playing , the origins of which , he suggests , may be traced to the vocal traditions of our great cathedrals . |
| 10 | Understandably , Tony O'Dalaigh is anxious that what he describes as the ‘ chaos with Archaos ’ does n't hang over reports of the 1991 Dublin Theatre Festival ‘ I would n't want it all to obscure the fact that in terms of the festival 's visibility and the people who turned up to see the shows we had the most successful festival in years . |
| 11 | A distinguished psychosomatic physician , Dr A. Cameron Macdonald , documented his own findings on what he describes as the water-retention syndrome . |
| 12 | The Hon. Gentleman must give more careful thought to the detail of what he describes as the " opting-out schemes " . |
| 13 | So far , he has been encouraged by what he describes as the responsible way councils have handled the introduction of the new tax . |
| 14 | Having sewn up the Cobol development business in the IBM mainframe world , Micro Focus Plc is setting out to pull the same trick in the Unix world and is offering what it describes as a complex Unix application development environment optimised for client-server applications . |
| 15 | UK Pick outfit , Electronic Data Processing plc , Sheffield , is readying what it describes as a ‘ nested , object-oriented relational database system ’ for release next February . |
| 16 | The South Coast Air Quality Management District ( AQMD ) , a powerful independent regulatory body in the US State of California , has devised what it describes as a " revolutionary programme " for reducing air pollution in the Los Angeles area , which has one of the lowest air qualities in the industrialized world . |
| 17 | With much-ballyhoo , Scottish Mutual has announced the introduction , from December 1 , of what it describes as the first ‘ risk-graded ’ Personal Equity Plan . |
| 18 | The government plans to announce shortly what it describes as the most far-reaching legislation since 1938 ( Editorial , Glasgow Herald 1989 ) . |
| 19 | The British Labour Party has launched its " Green Right to Know " campaign , attacking what it describes as the government 's contemptuous attitude to the provision of environmental information to the public . |