Example sentences of "described it as the " in BNC.
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1 | Frank Muir , introducing the slot , described it as the television industry 's favourite play . |
2 | He described it as the ‘ best news since 1948 ’ when the National Party came to power on the policy of apartheid , which eventually led to South Africa 's ban from the international rugby arena until this year . |
3 | It cost £300,000 to build , a vast sum for the time , and Murray 's Handbook for Travellers in India , Burma , and Ceylon , with typical travel-guide hyperbole , described it as the finest railway station in India or any country . |
4 | He described it as the ‘ old ’ fell race but it was started a few hundred years after the feast originated . |
5 | By the latter half of the century , the majority of books on child care — which were enjoying a tremendous popularity — strongly recommended breast-feeding and described it as the normal practice ( Fildes 1980 ) . |
6 | Joyce , who had experienced more than her fair share of personal sorrow , described it as the saddest day of her life . |
7 | Participants in the plenum described it as the stormiest in Gorbachev 's six years as party leader . |
8 | One commentator described it as the moment when de Gaulle 's spell was broken . |
9 | Mansell , who 's got his season off to a better start than anyone in history , described it as the happiest day of his life , but was first to acknowledge all the hard graft back in Didcot that made it possible . |
10 | A vet described it as the worse case of neglect he 'd ever seen . |
11 | One Bank of England official described it as the biggest scandal since the South Sea Bubble . |