Example sentences of "[be] described [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such samples require the use of special techniques which may be described loosely as flow , flash and freeze methods . |
| 2 | Colic can be described simply as abdominal pain caused by malfunction of the intestinal tract , but sometimes the horse does n't get better . |
| 3 | Their affair could be described either as ‘ passionately discreet ’ or as ‘ discreetly passionate ’ , the relative anonymity of Wenlock Manor being preferred to the sodium-lit splendour of the Grand Hotel . |
| 4 | The transfer of ideas between scientists , disregarding for the moment the nature of the medium used for exchange , can be described either as personal or as formal . |
| 5 | The other two , Braniel and Andersonstown , are both located on the outer edges of the city and might be described approximately as upper-working to lower-middle class . |
| 6 | There remains , however , a wide range of views covering more obviously political aspects of the phenomena which could only be described together as ‘ elitist ’ if we accept that term as a residual category . |
| 7 | Text can be described technically as information , in that information is that which eliminates uncertainty . |
| 8 | Efforts with red grapes can , however , be described only as experimental , with the wines produced tending towards a deep rosé rather than a true red colour . |
| 9 | Despite the use of country risk analysis it must be conceded that competition for loan business has sometimes encouraged banks to ignore their own country or regional risk assessments and indulge in what can be described only as imprudent bank lending ( dealt with in Chapter 8 ) . |
| 10 | Like Althusser , Foucault was once called a structuralist , but although he shows great interest in structures ( including the structures of thought and of ‘ discourse ’ in different ages ) he differs significantly from both Althusser and other struc-turalists , often being described consequently as ‘ post-structuralist ’ — and ‘ post-Marxist ’ and ‘ post-modernist ’ as well . |
| 11 | The majority ( 88% ) of the tumours studied were described histologically as moderately differentiated , with only a single tumour ( 2% ) described as well differentiated and the remainder ( 10% ) , poorly differentiated . |
| 12 | Until the mid-730s he is described only as king of the Mercians but in an important charter of 736 concerning the granting of land in the territory of the Hwicce , the oldest Mercian original text to survive , Aethelbald is variously ‘ king not only of the Mercians but also of all the provinces which are known by the general name South Angles ’ , ‘ king of the South Angles ’ and ‘ king of Britain' ( CS 154 : S 89 ) . |
| 13 | However , the leaf people and the original people alone are described automatically as shy and fearful . |
| 14 | Feminist ideas are presented as extreme , and women who hold them are described variously as unfeminine , man-hating , aggressive , ugly and perverted . |
| 15 | Although railway-building in North America has been described above as ‘ quintessentially capitalist ’ , in fact railway companies were prepared to build to the West only in return for massive inducements . |
| 16 | That seems to me to be a very moving description of somebody who is preaching to people , not from any sense of superiority , but rather from a sense of human concern and caring about the people that she is addressing , and this makes the way in which George Eliot writes about her very different from the way in which other methodist preachers have been described either as ranters , erm or as people who are so caught up in what they are saying themselves that the fail to make any pay any attention to the people that they are addressing . |
| 17 | Two figures who have been described respectively as the grandfather and father of Serbian literature were Dositej Obradović ( 1743–1811 ) and Vuk Karadžić ( 1787–1864 ) . |
| 18 | On July 4 the government drew up a budget for 1991 which was described officially as designed to curb inflation , reduce the budget deficit and maintain economic growth . |
| 19 | In what was described locally as the worst social unrest since the US military invasion of December 1989 [ see pp. 37112-13 ] , demonstrators clashed with heavily armed police on May 5-11 in the Caribbean coastal city of Colón . |
| 20 | His department contributed £2.3 million towards the fund set up to purchase what was described yesterday as southern England 's last wilderness , a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest of international importance for its bird population . |