Example sentences of "what have been described [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | • Matra is developing what has been described as a ‘ four-wheel motorcycle ’ , using Clio 16-valve power . |
| 2 | There has developed what has been described as a ‘ transition trap ’ , experienced by the generation which has cared for their elders in the traditional manner , but whose children have increasingly embraced Western lifestyles , and fail to fulfil customary expectations about caring for their parents . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Although he is unwilling to specify in advance any privileged source of power , there nevertheless underlies his work what has been described as a ‘ philosophical monism ’ , a conception of a ‘ will to power ’ forever expanding and bursting forth in the form of a will to know . |
| 5 | Indeed , just prior to but , there is what has been described as a ‘ possible completion point ’ . |
| 6 | This loss of income became generalized , through the play of the labour market , to less skilled families , to school-leavers , to ethnic minorities , and to the sick and disabled to create what has been described as a ‘ deprived underclass ’ . |
| 7 | In the debate on the Remonstrance against Buckingham in June he argued that the Arminians ‘ run in string with the papists and flatter greatness to oppress the subject ’ , thereby making what has been described as a new and crucial intellectual link between alteration of religion and alteration of government . |
| 8 | This behaviour is motivated by what has been described as a relentless pursuit of thinness , a morbid fear of fatness , or a weight phobia . |