Example sentences of "is described " in BNC.
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| 1 | This pattern of human rights violations is described in a recent AI report , Indonesia : Continuing Human Rights Violations in Irian Jaya , available from the British Section office . |
| 2 | On the engraving of the picture made by Gisbert van Geen in 1588 , for which Pozzoferrato supplied the ornamental framework and which Ridolfi reproduced in his biography , Tintoretto is described as being seventy years old . |
| 3 | A pragmatic view is that an aesthetic experience is what is described as such , and as there are varieties of religious experience , so there may be varieties of aesthetic experience . |
| 4 | The locale is described as a university in the north of England , it could be anywhere from Nottingham to Newcastle , but seems more likely to be Lancashire or Merseyside . |
| 5 | That had more to do with management and the presentation of the play to those who were backing it — so instead of playing Beefy , who is described as ‘ the world 's most beatific observer ’ I played the opposite number who was ‘ the world 's last shy elegant young man ’ . |
| 6 | The premises is described as follows ; |
| 7 | The Old Rectory is County Restaurant of the Year for Gwynedd in this year 's Good Food Guide , and Vaughan 's fare on the no-choice , £22-per-head menu is described as displaying much skill . |
| 8 | The full route is described below . |
| 9 | The grade is E5 6b and is described ( by myself , oops ) as being ‘ totally brilliant ’ . |
| 10 | A detailed description of the hut approach and the climb itself then follows , and if necessary the descent is described as well . |
| 11 | This work is described as a personal celebration of the mountains and landscapes of Nepal , but it turns out to be a pictorial account of six treks and climbs in the more popular areas of the country . |
| 12 | Ideally this should be carried out by the timber supplier ( treated wood is described as ‘ Tanalised ’ or ‘ Celcured ’ by timber merchants and other stockists ) to ensure thorough and deep penetration of the wood . |
| 13 | Dutifully , I changed them to a complete muesli-type food which is described on the bag as ‘ Hi Protein Fitness Food ’ . |
| 14 | As for the zener diode D , that is described as being in series with the base of Tr3 which has me completely baffled . |
| 15 | The device uses the Gilbert technique , shown in Fig. 1 , in which X , Y and Z inputs are converted to currents , trimmed for zero offset , the products of X and Y currents being multiplied using Gilbert 's translinear technique which is described in the Analog Devices Non-linear Circuits Handbook . |
| 16 | No one who reads the three solid essays in what is described as the catalogue of the exhibition ( though it is n't quite that ) can think that ‘ Barnumising ’ in any way describes Pound 's ardent response to painting and sculpture , photography and architecture , first in London 1908–1920 , then in Paris 1920–1925 , and thereafter in Italy . |
| 17 | He is described as 5ft 10ins , slimly built , with a fresh complexion and ginger hair , and should not be approached if sighted , police said . |
| 18 | Endesha Ida Mae Holland , the author of this veiled autobiography , is described in the programme as a popular lecturer and ‘ story-teller ’ : she works the same seam as Maya Angelou , Toni Morrison and Alice Walker ( whose spirit she fulsomely invokes , and whose book The Color Purple she implicitly recalls at every turn ) . |
| 19 | The coarsest grip jokes date from 1940s Australia , like the Lindeman Island grip captioned , ‘ Well , what are you looking at ? ’ , whose illustration is described in Mr Hooker 's catalogue as ‘ man and woman at a urinal ’ . |
| 20 | IN THE recent report of the Church of England 's Doctrine Commission , We Believe in God , the doctrine of divine impassibility , that God can not suffer , is described as ‘ the most venerable theological position ’ and so it has generally been when Christians have endeavoured to think or speak about the nature of their God . |
| 21 | In the one sense , the term is used to refer to the ordinary aspects of police work , in the other , it is the process by which police work is done that is described as ‘ routine ’ . |
| 22 | This is described as the factor which ‘ means everything ’ to the decision about whether or not to proceed . |
| 23 | It is hardly surprising that a passage of Ovid is described in his Notes as ‘ of great anthropological interest ’ . |
| 24 | It is manifested as a ‘ dominant phallic economy ’ which is described as hom(m)osexual ( sometimes hom(m)o-sexual ) and rooted in singularity — ‘ The one of form , of the individual , of the ( male ) sexual organ , of the proper name , of the proper meaning … ’ — and characterized by censure and repression . |
| 25 | In the somewhat unlikely context of the Pelican History of Art ( the relevant volume is Art and Architecture in Spain and Portugal and their American Dominions 1500–1800 ) , an anonymous painting is described which shows America : |
| 26 | What it is like for a daughter in these circumstances is described by Afshan Begum ( a young Muslim woman who grew up in Britain ) in her thesis Adolescent Muslim girls in British Schools . |
| 27 | The all-alloy 24-valve twin-cam engine is described by Cosworth as being of the ‘ high-efficiency ’ type , and follows the ‘ modular ’ theory — meaning that the basic design could suit anything from the three-cylinder unit to a V12 . |
| 28 | In a few instances , the cone itself was of brick and this form of construction existed at Tibb 's Oast , a mid-nineteenth century oast-house , the conversion of which is described later . |
| 29 | This policy is shown in the scheme for the conversion of All Saints and St Barnabas , Stockwell , London , which is described and illustrated in this chapter . |
| 30 | The simplest arrangement is apparent in the original building of the village school at Shawell , Leicestershire , the conversion of which is described and illustrated later in this chapter . |