Example sentences of "described [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The January price rises [ see p. 38730-31 ] had been higher than expected and painful , but he described them as the logical conclusions of the policies of Soviet Prime Ministers Nikolai Ryzhkov and Valentin Pavlov . |
| 2 | A comedian of the time described them in The Stage : |
| 3 | In a famous description of Basil III , the Imperial Ambassador Sigismund von Herberstein described him as the most despotic sovereign on earth . |
| 4 | They described him as the " enemy of all chastity " and ascribed to him the intention of founding an abbey of prostitutes in which the offices of abbess , prioress and so on would be distributed according to the professional skill of the inmates . |
| 5 | Malcolm Muggeridge later said that Burgess ‘ gave me a feeling of being morally afflicted in some way ’ , and described him as the ‘ sick toast of a sick society ’ . |
| 6 | His claim that we described him as the IRA 's Chief of Staff is untrue . |
| 7 | Yesterday , sentencing Ferguson , Sheriff Colin MacKay described him as the prime mover . |
| 8 | On that occasion , Richard Dorment , a critic not noted for exaggeration , described him in The Daily Telegraph as the most inventive sculptor since Picasso , and this new exhibition promises to be one of the season 's notable achievements . |
| 9 | Frank Muir , introducing the slot , described it as the television industry 's favourite play . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He described it as the ‘ old ’ fell race but it was started a few hundred years after the feast originated . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | Joyce , who had experienced more than her fair share of personal sorrow , described it as the saddest day of her life . |
| 15 | Participants in the plenum described it as the stormiest in Gorbachev 's six years as party leader . |
| 16 | One commentator described it as the moment when de Gaulle 's spell was broken . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A vet described it as the worse case of neglect he 'd ever seen . |
| 19 | One Bank of England official described it as the biggest scandal since the South Sea Bubble . |
| 20 | He was in a fix — he had bought two papers and merged them together , and I was n't around , I was in New York , and I did the logo for him in a hurry , but I did n't have time to design a newspaper , nor was it the kind of thing for which he could pay a big design fee , so he described it on the phone and then he faxed me some pages of the existing papers , and I said well what you have to do is look at the old London Times and do that . |
| 21 | But at the same time this form of contact can seem to other policemen and women as skiving , as even one member of the public described it to the field-worker ( FN 17/12/87 ) , p. 6 ) , although such a caricature obscures the fact that the contact often has a more meaningful purpose . |
| 22 | WHEN I BEGAN to write about Thrush Green in 1958 , I described it in the first few pages of the book I called Thrush Green , and a little later as seen by Ruth Bassett from the bedroom window of her late grandfather 's beautiful house overlooking the green . |
| 23 | This is called Reynaud 's Phenomenon , after the French doctor who first described it in the thesis for his medical degree in 1862 . |
| 24 | The captain of the Rebecca Sims described it in the ship 's log as a brownish-grey reptile at least 45 metres long . |
| 25 | London 's Evening Standard referred to ‘ AEA Technology — the reshaped Atomic Energy Authority ’ and the Daily Telegraph described us as the ‘ re-styled AEA Technology . ’ |