Example sentences of "[verb] describe [pers pn] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think , think it 's best maybe we 're into these sort of formal words of consultation and discussion , maybe if we invite comment on , on the service changes really , or the reductions or cuts or whatever you want to describe them as , er , in relation to how they affect user groups . |
| 2 | One expert has described them as ‘ the most primate-like non-primate ’ . |
| 3 | Illich is also sceptical of professionals ' self-descriptions and has described them as definers of reality in their relationship with clients . |
| 4 | For that reason , and because the quartets encompass the complete gamut of human emotion , one close friend of Shostakovich has described him as ‘ the Beethoven of our age . ’ |
| 5 | The movement 's historian has described it as ‘ a landmark in Free Church history ’ although he admitted ‘ it did not take hold on the life of the Free Churches in the way that might have been expected ’ . |
| 6 | Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott has described it as an art ‘ needing the patience of an animal ’ , and undoubtedly there would be times when physical strength and endurance were the key to survival , for survive they must to make any contribution from their efforts . |
| 7 | He 'd described her as ‘ an intriguing challenge ’ , she remembered now with a frown . |
| 8 | BusinessWeek 's June 1 cover story on Intel , which puts its rushing out the P5 in a highly positive light , makes passing mention of an 80586 machine it 's designed under the code name Panther that OEMs can license describing it as ‘ a PC with workstation power . ’ |
| 9 | For Laura , work had now become an end in itself ; although some of her colleagues began to describe her as a workaholic it was more that she found working a pleasurable state . |
| 10 | Henry Tyler would not have described her as a happy woman , but afterward he could not say that she had seemed at all unwell . |
| 11 | Had it not been for the honey pigment of her skin , any one of her small circle of friends might have described her as a porcelain doll . |
| 12 | ‘ Until this happened , I would have described him as a conventional Anglican . |
| 13 | A few years ago if you had a machine with a 40Mb hard drive you would have described it as a high specification machine . |
| 14 | as if to underline the shifting boundaries of our assumptions , the working group on design and technology has challenged its ‘ subject ’ status , preferring to describe it as a ‘ capability ’ that will be developed not only through design technology , business studies , information technology and home economics , but through most other subjects as well . |
| 15 | In truth this troupe did not receive the idolatry that his juveniles had aroused the previous year , but they must have pulled up their silk stockings because when they went on tour later one reviewer did describe them as : |
| 16 | Soldiers present in the guard-room which it frequents describe it as a black spaniel who would enter the room when candles were lit and disappear at daybreak , trotting up the hallway . |
| 17 | ‘ We prefer to describe it as a personality disorder , ’ he said . |
| 18 | A former wartime lieutenant in the Lithuanian police , Anton Gecas , on July 17 lost a £600,000 libel case against the United Kingdom Scottish Television company which had described him as a war criminal . |
| 19 | Dorothy Allen , his agent , had described him as a ’ quite remarkable ’ fellow and so , personably and articulately , it proved . |
| 20 | He had actually defended the town after another caller had described it as the most polluted place in the world . |
| 21 | You see describes it as what The lack of grace , there 's no grace you know in the in in in the There 's a person who 's effected by these . |
| 22 | Trotsky refused to describe it as a ruling class since it did not own the means of production : it had ‘ neither stocks nor bonds . |
| 23 | Some have described her as a 1920s version of much-admired Kate Adie , who always appears to be in the thick of things wherever the action is ! |
| 24 | It becomes less important to Picasso later on but it is something which is constant for Matisse and it has always been recognised by critics who have described him as a painter 's painter . |
| 25 | I have described him as a literary concept and this , as applied to a man in a dirty trench-coat moving in and out of sleazy beds and corrupt gambling dens , may seem to be rather excessive . |
| 26 | Commentators have described it as a ‘ Stalinist trial ’ , not only of Pavlović but also of others who hold similar views . |
| 27 | Binoculars show that it is very highly coloured ; telescopically I have described it as an orange blob , quite unlike a normal star . |
| 28 | Others have described it as ‘ accelerated performance improvement . ’ |
| 29 | The partial ban has angered environmentalists and farm workers who have described it as a " cheap ploy " to allow Cheminova Agro to continue to produce 60 per cent of its current annual output of the pesticide . |
| 30 | Experts have described it as the worst case to date of pesticide contamination in Britain . |