Example sentences of "what he described [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His choice for our meeting of the Garrick Club , that temple of self-regard for actors and political journalists , therefore seemed a touch bold , but the need for what he described with a smile as a ‘ tranquil interior ’ was a fair enough alibi . |
| 2 | Yet Montgomerie , fresh from his second place behind Nick Faldo in Singapore , was less perturbed by their outstanding golf than what he described as a lack of big-time atmosphere on the splendid King 's Course inside his seaside palace at Agadir . |
| 3 | Yet Montgomerie , fresh from his second place behind Nick Faldo in Singapore , was less perturbed by their outstanding golf than what he described as a lack of big-time atmosphere on the splendid King 's Course inside the seaside palace at Agadir . |
| 4 | Here he became what he described as a kind of paying guest with the Mirrlees . |
| 5 | When my right hon. Friend the Member for Sparkbrook was Home Secretary , he used to draft for us what he described as a crime clock . |
| 6 | Having constructed a working model , as it were , he left his conscious mind to one side and relied upon his ear — what he described as the interdependence of rhythm and diction , or the recognition of meaning when it is embodied in cadence . |
| 7 | Rickford attacked what he described as the hysteria of the opposition to BT : the fear is that the US is being ‘ opened up to a conspiracy of foreigners against which the US needs to defend itself . ’ |
| 8 | My hon. and learned Friend the Member for Burton also referred to the need to maintain what he described as the quality of managers in prisons , and my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary has also spoken about that . |
| 9 | One crucial explanation produced by Swift-Hook for the failure to take wind power seriously enough was what he described in an interview with the Hinkley Inquirer as ‘ the naughty reasons ’ . |