Example sentences of "to [be] described [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is , indeed , entitled to be described as a great player , Britain 's nonpareil of the 1980s , who was eventually recognised as such by even the hardened doubters in Australia after his summer with Balmain in 1988 . |
| 2 | I 'm not sure that he would like to be described as a contacting Peter Hobson at Windyridge , Donington on Bain , Lincolnshire ( telephone : 0507 84737 ; fax : 0507 84393 ) as he dismantles fairly new vehicles . |
| 3 | For a text to be described as a nouveau roman it had to exhibit self-reflexive and metafictional features as well as foreground the exploration of the semantic and phonetic properties of language . |
| 4 | WHERNSIDE RISES to 2419 feet above the sea and is the highest , largest and least attractive of the Three Peaks ; indeed , unlike the other two , this great hill hardly deserves to be described as a peak , its smooth , bland outline nowhere suggesting a steep angular summit . |
| 5 | There was no path , and the ground was too stony to be described as a meadow . |
| 6 | SEE , HEAR , LOOK , LEARN Multimedia used to be described as a solution looking for a problem . |
| 7 | Teaching continues to be described as a profession , particularly by the leaders of the various trade unions in supporting claims for higher pay and better conditions for their members . |
| 8 | It would no doubt have upset Kumara Menon to be described as a member of the ‘ British bloc ’ ; Jacobs could not decide whether Menon was a visionary or was persuaded by the arguments of Patterson , Jackson and Djabi ( Syria ) . |
| 9 | For example , a collision between a pedestrian and a car is very likely to be described by a speaker as a boy being run over by a car , rather than as a car knocking a boy down . |
| 10 | If player A follows the strategy suggested above we can deduce that B t 's beliefs on A's type continue to be described by a normal distribution , because the B t 's will face a signal extraction problem when they are forming their expectations of z . |
| 11 | The concept of structure allows cultural phenomena to be described in a ( relatively ) context independent way so that general instances can be analysed . |
| 12 | A clenched fist , a frosty stare or a head-thrust , feet-planted , arms-akimbo posture , being recognizable as proper parts or adjuncts to acts of real violence , can stand in for the real thing in the ritualized ‘ aggression ’ to be described in a later chapter of this book . |
| 13 | a special form of programming language which enables both text and graphics ( object or bit-image ) to be described in a series of mathematical statements . |