Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [adv] describe as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Riots in the United States were once described as continuing through a long hot summer . |
| 2 | Half the market centres of Sussex had populations below 500 ; indeed , places such as West Tarring , Broadwater , Hailsham and Storrington are best described as villages where markets happened to be held . |
| 3 | To Neil , hide-bound Englishman that he was , Philip Arbuthnot was best described as Irish , because he could n't account for him in any other way . |
| 4 | The release of prisoners of war by Iraq was officially described as completed when a total of 45 prisoners-of-war had been handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross ( 10 on March 4 , comprising six US personnel , three British and one Italian , and 35 on March 5 , comprising 15 US , nine British , nine Saudis , an Italian and a Kuwaiti , who were flown from Baghdad to Riyadh on March 6 ) . |
| 5 | At her death , Isabel is elsewhere described as Peche 's wife and the nature of her liaison with Brampton is thus uncertain . |