Example sentences of "described as a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though sometimes described as a hall church , it is not one . |
| 2 | It was described as a couple of seconds crammed with incident . |
| 3 | And what about poor Copenhagen , the Duke 's favourite charger , described as a mare ! |
| 4 | Five of his friends thought the article referred to him — an identification made all the more far-fetched by the fact that the fictitious character was described as a Peckham Church Warden . |
| 5 | Again it is between Roger Fleming , John Blackwall , Anthony Blackwall ( now described as a stocking weaver ) from Litton in Derby , Penelope Wright and Roberta Maria Anna Wright both of Longston in Derby , and Daniel Morley ( now seen as an Iron Master ) of Ashbourne also in Derbyshire . |
| 6 | The Nun 's Priest 's Tale is a complex and supremely witty composition that has been described as a microcosm of the Canterbury Tales as a whole ; I shall seek only to illustrate those points of particular relevance to our study of the Shipman 's Tale 's immediate literary context . |
| 7 | The 7051 Power Network Dataserver , described as a high-performance , high-capacity Network file System server , and developed with the help of Santa Clara-based Auspex Systems Inc , will be available for OEMs from May . |
| 8 | It rejects pragmatic gradualism in favour of grand design : its ideas are described as a Vision of 2005 . |
| 9 | According to Andrews , Ontos DB — described as a component object database environment — resides at a higher level than persistent languages such as C++ and SmallTalk or databases that are simply collections of objects that use C++ topologies rather than SQL . |
| 10 | A research and advice centre on plant diseases on pests , it has been described as a doctors ' surgery for farmers . |
| 11 | I 'd love to read something about Beefheart again — for me he is still just about the only person who has been described as a genius in your august organ who might just be one . |
| 12 | Alcohol abuse is often described as a minority problem . |
| 13 | One product described as a toilet cleaner is highly effective for cleaning vending machines but operator resistance to this application would be expected . |
| 14 | Altogether this led to an effect which might be described as a tapering of market opportunities , and it was sharpened as international growth rates decelerated in the early 1970s . |
| 15 | And what worries me , if I may say so in this matter is that , that I find er in my retirement , a sensitivity among some of my fellow ministers about something that one of them described as a threat to status a feeling that there must be a protection of prerogatives . |
| 16 | " The college experience " might , therefore , be described as a voyage of self-discovery , self-development and preparation for self-fulfilment . |
| 17 | This had been described as a thrust , but it is almost certainly a submarine landslip deposit like those in Italy . |
| 18 | This may be described as a concern with ‘ impact ’ rather than with ‘ implementation ’ . |
| 19 | Right the situation in Maastricht up till the nineteenth century was that It was described as a di- or tri-glossic erm linguistic community . |
| 20 | A central Government contribution will remain , along with a reformed business rate , but in place of a levy on the value of a person 's home , individuals within a house will be required to pay a community charge , more accurately described as a poll tax . |
| 21 | The locale is described as a university in the north of England , it could be anywhere from Nottingham to Newcastle , but seems more likely to be Lancashire or Merseyside . |
| 22 | For the moment , however , there was still an outside chance that when the nationalist and communist members of what was described as a good-will parliamentary mission from Hanoi — and Ho as President — arrived in the more liberal and relaxed atmosphere of Paris an understanding might have been reached . |
| 23 | Erm I had one the other day where er it was s supposed to be , it was described as a brand new video machine and we got the most perfect picture , beautifully clear picture , but no sound whatever . |
| 24 | This has been replaced by a move which is variously described as a return ‘ back to basics ’ , an attempt to ‘ focus on the core ’ or ‘ unbundling ’ . |
| 25 | The tort might be described as a species of private nuisance , namely unreasonable interference with the victim 's rights to use the highway . |
| 26 | the demand for a referendum over Maastricht is described as a healing , positive thing for the Conservative Party . |
| 27 | The second is what might be described as a pathology of the positions ( solipsism , and so on ) adopted by those philosophers who accept the experiential explanation . |
| 28 | Johnson 's offence surrounded a drug called Reactivin , which in the days after the controversy broke was described as a pep-pill , a pick-me-up , an anti-depressant , a psycho-motor stimulant and ‘ a substance normally taken for post-natal depression ’ . |
| 29 | No man could hear his woman described as a whore and not fight , yet Lord John was truly terrified of the Rifleman and had no doubt who would win a duel , and so , despite the insults and despite the people who witnessed his humiliation , he nodded his acceptance of Sharpe 's demand . |
| 30 | There is a similar uncertainty about Richard Gordon 's The Invisible Victory , described as a novel and published in 1977 . |