Example sentences of "has been described [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All knew that they would have to pass through what has been described as a maelstrom , and that they would have to rely on the seamanship of their coxswain to reach the relative safety of open water ; there would be no second chance in conditions which were described as the worst in living memory . ’ |
| 2 | Northern Ireland has been described as a society under siege , a society where there is a problem for every solution ! |
| 3 | Maybe when the river runs blue again , shrimp boats will return to Paul , which has been described as a village unique in Holderness . |
| 4 | A research and advice centre on plant diseases on pests , it has been described as a doctors ' surgery for farmers . |
| 5 | The Nun 's Priest 's Tale is a complex and supremely witty composition that has been described as a microcosm of the Canterbury Tales as a whole ; I shall seek only to illustrate those points of particular relevance to our study of the Shipman 's Tale 's immediate literary context . |
| 6 | The Green Party 's policy has been described as a manifesto for the 1890's rather than the 1980's . |
| 7 | The experience has been described as a sense that the self is worthless , the world meaningless and the future pointless ( Beck , 1973 ) . |
| 8 | I 'd love to read something about Beefheart again — for me he is still just about the only person who has been described as a genius in your august organ who might just be one . |
| 9 | Suffering is so prominent a part of the Gospel that it has been described as a Passion story with an introduction . |
| 10 | Formed in as a three-piece , they now have four members in their ranks and play music which has been described as a cross between Sonic Youth and Stiff Little Fingers . |
| 11 | This period of time has been described as a period of consensus . |
| 12 | The international legal system has been described as a series of bilateral consensual relationships within which rights , commitments and obligations are formulated , and values are allocated between parties inter se . |
| 13 | The practice of underwriting before the reforms of October 1986 has been described as a method of compensation for the high transactions costs of fixed commissions for large institutional clients . |
| 14 | It has been described as a breach ‘ going to the root of the contract ’ . |
| 15 | The lesion has been described as a volcano with central whitish discoloration projecting from an otherwise normal gastric mucosa . |
| 16 | Anicius Saturninus at Irchester has been described as a remount officer securing new horses for the army , while O. Cordius Candidus at Dover may have been connected with the transport of horses across the Channel . |
| 17 | The crux , above the big ledge of the first stance some 40ft above the base , has been described as a slab . |
| 18 | Be that as it may , chancroid is diagnosed and treated with frequency in endemic areas where it has been described as a disease of the socially unenlightened and the economically unfortunate . |
| 19 | Traditionally bureaucracy has been described as a role culture , but there is no reason to suppose that the different cultures can not all exist within the same organisation particularly if the organisation is as large and diverse as a government department or a local authority . |
| 20 | ‘ It has been described as a headache from start to finish , ’ a source told Sunday Life . |
| 21 | Amplification of c-myc has been described in a minority ( 7% ) of tumours but correlates poorly with RNA content . |
| 22 | Lithotripsy of a densely calcified gall bladder stone has been described in a case report . |
| 23 | Satyāgraha has been described in a variety of ways . |
| 24 | This mishap may occur during laparoscopic surgery and has been described in a patient with advanced gallbladder cancer . |
| 25 | A new and widespread mode of evolution has been described by a research group led by Dr Gabriel Dover , at the University of Cambridge . |
| 26 | The highly organized learned career which obtained in the empire from the late sixteenth century onward has been described by a number of authors , western and Turkish , most recently by Gibb and Bowen in their Islamic Society and the West and by Uzuncarsili in his . |