Example sentences of "described [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The USSR Supreme Soviet on May 16 passed what was described as the first unclassified legislation regulating the state security services . |
| 2 | Conversely , to enter the chemical laboratory envisaged in 1606 by Andreas Libavius — a respectable Lutheran humanist , critic of the Paracelsians , and author of what has been described as the first chemical textbook — would be to enter an open house in which the products of the furnace were investigated with a sense of responsibility for the welfare of one 's fellow men . |
| 3 | Iona Technologies Ltd will unveil Orbix — described as the first full implementation of the Common Object Request Broker Architecture — at the Object World trade show in June . |
| 4 | Iona Technologies Ltd will unveil Orbix — described as the first full implementation of the Common Object Request Broker Architecture — at the Object World trade show in June . |
| 5 | In 1833 J. C. Loudon , who has been described as the first architectural journalist , announced that the ‘ great object ’ of his Encyclopaedia of Cottage , Farm and Villa Architecture was ‘ to show how the dwellings of the whole mass of society may be equalized in point of all essential comforts , conveniences and beauties ’ . |
| 6 | SpreadBase is described as the first category-based modelling tool . |
| 7 | Where the two axes meet , particularly in the context of policy initiation or adjudication , a small number of academic staff described as the central academic team have particular responsibilities . |
| 8 | Lively and original , Jennings has been described as the only real poet produced by the British cinema . |
| 9 | Otherwise , if place could have been found for these minor poets and playwrights , not to mention jumped-up journalists who also figured all too prominently , surely a few sentences could have been spared for the man he himself had described as the one working-class writer who remained working-class — the man whom the Sentinel had called ‘ the poet of work ’ . |
| 10 | It 's described as the largest humanitarian crisis to afflict Europe since the second world war . |
| 11 | Scrutiny had an enormous influence on English studies , particularly in England , but its immediate model was the non-academic Calendar of Modem Letters , and more remotely the great Victorian reviews , whose contents might be described as the higher literary journalism . |
| 12 | It was described as the second largest in Europe . |
| 13 | When the Carrian empire abruptly collapsed in 1983 the outcome was what has been described as the greatest financial disaster to afflict Hong Kong for at least 40 years . |
| 14 | Its been described as the greatest human catastophe on earth … hundreds of thousands have died in Somalia … two million more are seriously at risk … relief workers … even those used to suffering … find the enormity of the task they face difficult to cope with . |
| 15 | At this point , then , the Chinese were the indispensable sponsors of Vietnamese independence and Ho himself is supposed to have assured them that he would work under their auspices and as a member of what might be described as the Vietnamese patriotic front . |
| 16 | Some reports suggested that it had survived what was described as the fourth attempted coup since Bashir took power from the government of Sadiq el-Mahdi in June 1989 [ see p. 36728 ] . |
| 17 | It was designed by F. W. Stevens in what is often described as the Gothic Saracenic style . |
| 18 | The actor who has stamped his presence on 72 films is described as the Gallic raging bull , a man for whom no role is too outlandish to take on . |
| 19 | THOUSANDS of young people in the North East are finding a new way to enjoy their weekends they are taking Ecstasy , described as the next best thing to an orgasm . |
| 20 | Ecstasy 's been described as the next best thing to an orgasm , so if your life feels empty it can appear to fill that gap quite nicely . ’ |
| 21 | Cairo is now being described as the next major release of NT , and may well be the release that the market waits for before deciding to commit to NT . |
| 22 | Cairo is now being described as the next major release of NT , and may well be the release that the market waits for before deciding to commit to NT . |
| 23 | The figures , in what the company described as the worst economic conditions for almost half a century , enabled it to boost its dividend for shareholders . |
| 24 | In what was widely described as the worst civil unrest since independence , rioting erupted in Bamako , the capital , on Jan. 21 after the police banned two anti-government demonstrations demanding political reforms and the introduction of multiparty democracy . |
| 25 | Despite what was then described as the worst financial recession for fifty years , the Mallaig train sold out in just nine days , there being no shortage of takers for seats which by now were creeping up towards the £40 mark , and beyond the pockets of the traditional excursion-train traveller . |
| 26 | A syndrome of anterior mucosal prolapse , so called anterior strip pouchitis , has been described with the characteristic pathological features of mucosal prolapse . |
| 27 | ( 1 ) In 1977 Arandaspis was described from the Lower Ordovician of Australia and in 1986 a very similar form , Sacambambaspis , was described from the Upper Ordovician of Bolivia ( Fig. 1 h ) . |
| 28 | ( 1 ) In 1977 Arandaspis was described from the Lower Ordovician of Australia and in 1986 a very similar form , Sacambambaspis , was described from the Upper Ordovician of Bolivia ( Fig. 1 h ) . |
| 29 | The single Recent genus scarcely reflects the diversity attained by the group in Palaeozoic seas , and more than a hundred different genera have been described from the Lower Palaeozoic alone . |
| 30 | The system is made up of successive layers of compatible and co-active materials , perhaps best described in the following dual terms : |