Example sentences of "as [noun] describes it " in BNC.
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| 1 | For , as Lecourt describes it , he attempts |
| 2 | The ideal and the actual conceptualization of Balinese personhood , as Howe describes it , certainly is one that centres round peace and calm . |
| 3 | This is identical with the view expressed in Pugin 's Contrasts nine years before , where the Utilitarian measures for poor relief — of which , as Pugin depicts them , Lord Mamey would certainly have approved — are juxtaposed with the supposedly benign regime of the medieval monastery as Gerard describes it ( Fig. 19 ) . |
| 4 | So a truce was made with the Spartans ( 451 ) which , as Thucydides describes it ( i.112 ) , need not have been motivated by more than Athens ' commonsense desire to deal with her enemies one by one . |
| 5 | But such distortions are , at least partly , social in origin ; the mechanism of superstition as Bacon describes it , involves a tendency to accept those propositions that have been laid down and established through social recognition and approval . |
| 6 | On the one hand , they would have been frightened by the urgency of the situation as Jesus describes it — the prospect of an imminent apocalypse , a day of judgement , the distribution of punishments and rewards . |
| 7 | As Kuhn describes it : |
| 8 | As Layton describes it , school chemistry became the ‘ easily organized and easily examined exercises in qualitative analysis … [ in which ] packets of powder were sent out [ to the schools ] and packets of paper were returned when the pupils had completed the routine of taking the solution through the charts ’ ; if anyone asked ‘ why ? ’ , ‘ training of the faculties of observation and reasoning ’ would doubtless have been the reply . |
| 9 | It was a small world of heath and wood , a few hundred acres at the most , but it was a separate world as Clare describes it , for example , in The Village Minstrel : |
| 10 | This is no less the case for the Shavante , as evidenced by their great Wai'a ceremony which , as Maybury-Lewis describes it ( 1971 : 243ff. ) , is a ritual representation of the sexual aspect of male ferocity . |
| 11 | Hackney has not always been as Harrison describes it . |
| 12 | The Council , as Eadmer describes it , was arranged round the tomb of St Peter , with Urban II and the cardinals ( among whom Anselm had been placed in a seat of honour ) sitting in the apse behind the altar , and the remainder of the Council spread out in front of them . |