Example sentences of "[adj] describe [pers pn] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | While some described it as an important strengthening of the rights of children , others saw it as a willingness to overturn natural family links in order to pander to a child 's desire to acquire richer parents . |
| 2 | On patrol , Constable Keith Raw describes it as a difficult estate to police . |
| 3 | As such there is controversy about the extent to which it is justifiable to describe them as political systems in their own right . |
| 4 | A Northern force faced with several desecrated graveyards and missing bodies in 1986 found it easier to describe it as the work of vandals . |
| 5 | George III described it as " the most perfect of human formations . " |
| 6 | All accounts of Six describe him as a competent yet modest and unassuming man of great integrity , and a devout Christian . |
| 7 | Dr Thomas Arnold in 1836 described him as a man of incomparably greater genius than any of the Anglican divines and theologians , and to have given a far truer and more edifying picture of Christianity . |
| 8 | So far , this has indicated the most elementary sort of raw evidence which the historian needs to use , but it is rarely satisfactory to describe it as ‘ primary material ’ in the old sense of ‘ sources ’ . |
| 9 | 81 , 82–83 described it as coercion : |
| 10 | No wonder 2 Chronicles 20:7 describes him as God 's " friend " . |
| 11 | When you consider the life of Hannah Hauxwell and the privations she has quietly suffered for most of her life , it is reasonable to describe her as a true daughter of Balder . |
| 12 | Charles Handy describes him as a man of immense power and influence , but ‘ One who would not exploit it ’ . |
| 13 | The medium trance is the best one for any treatment requiring regression , as it will be possible for the patient to relive past experiences on a more realistic level , whether seeing and hearing what takes place or being able to describe it as a spectator . |
| 14 | My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister was absolutely right to describe it as a ’ spend , spend , spend ’ and ’ tax , tax , tax ’ party . |
| 15 | I can not claim to have been a close friend , but I had occasional encounters with him and , as with most people , it would be more accurate to describe them as occasional brushes . |
| 16 | Although the general heading of this section is ‘ the special problem of Kosovo ’ , it would be more accurate to describe it as ‘ the special problem of Serbia ’ . |
| 17 | While this may be regarded as a sign of real independence it is probably more accurate to describe it as ‘ pseudoindependence ’ ( Kets de Vries , 1978 ) . |
| 18 | We then considered its claim to be scientific , humanistic and atheistic ; concluding that it was more accurate to describe it as an ideology than a science , that its humanitarianism was very real yet flawed , and that its atheism was fundamental to an understanding of the ideology . |
| 19 | If the buyer does not commit himself to acquire ownership of the goods there is no contract of sale and indeed it is inaccurate to describe him as ‘ buyer . ’ |
| 20 | A writer in the 1880s described it as " this old refuge of creatures from the former régimes " . |
| 21 | Although he was a leading member of the Danzig Party it would probably be fair to describe him as a misguided liberal who only realised his mistaken alliance when he saw the brownshirts pulling on their kicking boots . |
| 22 | Ernest Troeltsch is absolutely correct to describe it as a love communism . |