Example sentences of "to describe [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The author Jeanette Winterson provides a maxim for female artists past and present when she says : ‘ We do n't want men to package us but we must have the freedom to describe ourselves ’ . |
| 2 | So , when Councillor Peter Bradley replied to a letter from a resident he was careful to describe himself only as a member of ‘ the minority party ’ . |
| 3 | The same colleague mentioned above used to describe himself , when discussing the problems of his work , as a sort of insurance agent for the church or maybe for God . |
| 4 | They can be prey to several diseases at once , a possibility that led one to describe himself as ‘ a walking time bomb ’ . |
| 5 | Outspoken ENB member Jim McIntegart threatened the UKCC with a High Court Injunction if it did not allow him to describe himself as an RMN . |
| 6 | That made McIllvanney a gold-plated pimp , though he preferred to describe himself as a ‘ leisure-agent ’ ; however , he usually had the grace to smile when he used that label . |
| 7 | He played no part in the newly founded Royal Society or the College of Physicians , although at this time he began to describe himself as an ‘ MD ’ . |
| 8 | The right hon. Member for Sparkbrook is happy to describe himself as a socialist on many occasions , although the advice from Mr. Mandelson is to drop the word . |
| 9 | We sat on her bedroom floor , surrounded by a stack of Looks , Elle , Cosmopolitan and Just 17 magazines , and I asked Janet to describe herself . |
| 10 | Bangladeshi identity remained strong , only one mother preferring to describe herself as ‘ British Asian . ’ |
| 11 | It would be hypocritical to describe myself as this new creature as I did no make a conscious effort to share our son on a 50/50 basis . |
| 12 | And I think if I had to choose an adjective to describe myself , I would say that I 'm a cultural historian , with a very strong social interest . |
| 13 | And because their partners are seen as naturally more ambitious and less compromising than themselves , the women then go on to describe themselves as lucky and ‘ grateful ’ if their partners make even the smallest contribution to household affairs . |
| 14 | One difference was that working-class women were more likely to describe themselves as housewives and to give ‘ domestic ’ responses generally . |
| 15 | They are also the most likely to describe themselves as well endowed , through the least likely to say that size is important to women . |
| 16 | It seems most likely , however , that it was a word like ‘ Teddy Boy ’ or ‘ Mod ’ or ‘ Skinhead ’ which , coming out of the popular culture of working-class London , had been adopted by youths in some localities in order to describe themselves and what they took for their common identity . |
| 17 | In his opus , Irenaeus fulminates against a group whom he calls the ‘ Ebionites ’ — a term used by the writers of the Qumran texts to describe themselves , which can be translated as , simply , ‘ the Poor ’ . |
| 18 | On satisfactory completion of the period of apprenticeship , trainee solicitors are entitled to be formally admitted as solicitors and to describe themselves as such . |
| 19 | Unfortunately these two categories overlap , whilst those temporary workers ( or those who are giving proxy answers for them ) who are unsure of the precise nature of their temporary employment are also more likely to describe themselves as falling into the first category . |
| 20 | It seems obvious enough that ‘ language teachers ’ — the phrase used by foreign language teachers to describe themselves — need to know about ‘ language ’ but if we rephrase the formulation what we in fact have are French teachers who speak French , German teachers who speak German and so on . |
| 21 | there are some … that travell with me in the same birth ; yet are not able to bring forth their conceptions , for so much as many times , the Truth suffers by a weake delivery ; and for their sakes have I held this Glasse before them , that so they may be the better able to describe themselves to others ; and to help them to bring forth that out of their mouths , which perhaps may lye in the bottome of their hearts . |
| 22 | Ashton pointed out that the late rise of formal banking in the country was due in part to the fact that it grew naturally out of the financial activities of men who " were content to describe themselves simply as merchants or traders , retailers or even inn-keepers " . |
| 23 | RIEs do not even have an exclusive right to describe themselves as an " exchange " . |
| 24 | If you think of a famous building that you associate with London okay we are doing life in the city , we all live in London okay , think in your mind of a famous building for example Saint Paul 's , what I want you to do , and we 'll go round the class , is that I want you to describe yourself |
| 25 | okay , pretend that you 're that building and I want you to describe yourself and and I want the rest of the class to see if they can guess what it is and how long they take it they take to guess okay , and if you think you know what that person is , put your hand up do n't do n't shout out . |
| 26 | To describe oneself as a fine chemicals supplier , therefore , requires self-confidence , not to say courage . |