Example sentences of "has been describe " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the species accounts which follow the aim has been to describe the ‘ normal ’ pattern as far as possible . |
| 2 | The author has been describing how Stonehenge might have been built . |
| 3 | In the preceding part of the text , the writer has been describing a particular racehorse ( He ) which had been fitted with blinkers ( them ) for its previous race ( on that occasion ) . |
| 4 | Immediately preceding this extracted fragment , the narrator has been describing an incident relevant to the main story . |
| 5 | Immediately before this extract , speaker B ( female , 50+ , aunt of speaker A ) has been describing to speaker A ( female , 20+ ) the first type of radio she had , forty years before . |
| 6 | The brother of the murdered Edinburgh student Paul Sheldon has been describing how he tried to save his life . |
| 7 | A doctor who 's just returned from helping victims of the civil war in Somalia has been describing how the surgeon next to him was shot in the operating theatre as they were trying to save a patient 's life . |
| 8 | A former SAS soldier who 's climbed the highest mountain in the world without oxygen has been describing how he struggled to breathe . |
| 9 | A factory worker has been describing how he tried in vain to save a colleague who 'd been overcome by toxic fumes . |
| 10 | ‘ Socialist Realism ’ has been described by Ernst Fischer as implying ‘ the artist 's or writer 's fundamental agreement with the aims of the working class and the emerging socialist world ’ ; in short , this is a stance of political progressivism . |
| 11 | What if your place has been described for you as being a so-called ‘ minority ’ , or an ‘ emerging voice ’ ? |
| 12 | But business at the fair — the focal point of world publishing — has been described as quiet . |
| 13 | Beneath the graceful , almost sensual lines is a fearsome , sledgehammer power that has been described as ‘ just this side of reality . ’ |
| 14 | • Matra is developing what has been described as a ‘ four-wheel motorcycle ’ , using Clio 16-valve power . |
| 15 | American football itself has been described as an exercise in ‘ controlled violence ’ . |
| 16 | This has been described in the chapter . |
| 17 | The proposed complex , designed by the architect James Stirling , has been described by the Prince of Wales as resembling ‘ a 1930s wireless set ’ . |
| 18 | Although the Trojan has been described , sensationally , as ‘ the biggest computer crime in the world , ’ what law does it break ? |
| 19 | ‘ It has been described to me as an isolated house in the midst of fields , through which are only rough and rutty waggon tracks , and I have been told too , that it is hidden from passers along the road by a dark grove of trees . |
| 20 | Die Grünen has been described by Petra Kelly as an ‘ anti-party party ’ , and getting into bed with them might be a guarantee of ending up on the floor . |
| 21 | The Nassau meeting has been described as ‘ one of the great confrontations in the history of Anglo-American relations . ' |
| 22 | In 1549 , two years after the close of the first session of the Council of Trent — the Council whose stupendous achievements encompassed the comprehensive definition of Catholic doctrine and the unchallengeable assertion of papal power , and which has been described as the creator of the modern Catholic church — John Hamilton , archbishop of St Andrews since 1547 , held the first of his own reforming councils . |
| 23 | Since Turing 's paper , however , an actual chemical reaction , Zhabotinsky 's reaction , that generates a pattern , has been described . |
| 24 | Although Mr Raban has been described as ‘ the finest writer afloat since Conrad ’ , he modestly forbears to include his own work . |
| 25 | And The First Wives Club has been described as ‘ the Thelma and Louise of the corporate world ’ . |
| 26 | It is a magnificent building which has been described as the greatest church in Christendom . |
| 27 | Mr Fallon has been described as the kind of man who does not suffer fools gladly . |
| 28 | TIE Rack , whose expansion into America has been described as ‘ attempted suicide ’ by chairman Roy Bishko , is aiming to break even in its American shops ‘ in a couple of years ’ after a better performance in the year to February . |
| 29 | The cognitive behavioural strategies for the engagement , treatment , and relapse prevention of drug abusers has been described fully in Scott ( 1989a ) and Scott ( 1989b ) , whilst Cole ( 1989 ) has detailed the specifics of a cognitive-behavioural approach to the problems of offenders . |
| 30 | The first is a recognition that much of what has been described above already exists , but needs to be made explicit and systematic ; and secondly , there must be a recognition that partial attempts to change are almost inevitably doomed to fail in that they will always be compromised and administered by the history and culture of many schools . |