Example sentences of "[adv] describe " in BNC.
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| 1 | Below them , on the far side , and the various storage compartments , sliding desk , etc. described in the text ; on the near side is the hatch covering the box extension into which the legs could be stretched when the carriage was used for sleeping . |
| 2 | The name change was necessary , it was argued , because the original name referred to a single event that had taken place over a decade previously , that it gave the wrong image , and did n't properly describe the work being done by the organisation . |
| 3 | That chilled me in a way I ca n't properly describe . |
| 4 | I would rather describe it as a lively interest . ’ |
| 5 | A younger female novelist , Charlotte Yonge , unkindly described Mrs Sherwood as ‘ first in the field of pious slaughter . ’ |
| 6 | Thus , the exploration of a present-day divergent state of language resembles the exploration of a historically attested state to the extent that we can not successfully describe either of these in terms of an external ( and usually superordinate ) variety . |
| 7 | He described their house , the large stable which had grown year by year under the assiduous management of his father , or ‘ second father ’ , as he hesitatingly described him. , |
| 8 | On Tuesday , the Queen was wheeled out for her first-ever appearance at the European Parliament to give what the Guardian wittily described as the ‘ royal oui ’ to the EC . |
| 9 | Panic swept through respectable London in the winter of 1862 about what The Times ( 10 June 1863 ) would eventually describe as a ‘ new variety of crime ’ . |
| 10 | I eventually described the discipline of anthropology to certain colleagues as ‘ the study of old bones , prehistory , and human evolution you know ; David Attenborough and all that ’ . |
| 11 | Illert , through his research , is now in a position to rigorously describe the shapes of past , present and future shell forms , and as sea shells are amongst the best preserved of all fossils , we have a progression throughout the entire fossil record from the Pre-Cambrian era right up to the present day . |
| 12 | In a mock ‘ confession ’ to his father , he unwisely described riotous evenings at Cannabich 's house , where he amused the company by making up obscene verses ( a natural talent of his ) , and stayed up until after midnight . |
| 13 | I was about to call a doctor and then , suddenly , I had a feeling which I can only describe as — excuse me — ecstatic . |
| 14 | He then went on to say that he had had a complaint from the men in the next room , that I was using what he could only describe as ‘ a female sex aid device ’ for long periods at night and first thing in the morning . |
| 15 | The Brodskys in striking contrast go for what I can only describe as an unconventional line-up to match the photo on the cover . |
| 16 | Well — I compare human life to a large Mansion of Many Apartments , two of which I can only describe , the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me . |
| 17 | He looked at me , calmly threw his jacket into the car and then launched into what I can only describe as the most unbelievable martial arts display I have ever seen . |
| 18 | Sobbing , Pc Kelly said : ‘ The next thing I saw , he was standing holding a gun with both hands in what I can only describe as a combat position . ’ |
| 19 | It would be highly unwise to attempt using them , and in consequence we have on our hands what I can only describe as an old-fashioned case of acute lobar pneumonia . |
| 20 | He 's lived with her for six years but can only describe her job vaguely , as ‘ something in administration ’ . |
| 21 | But because it operates only at the level of ideas , without any attempt to specify why particular ideas are held in particular societies at particular times , other than by reference to other ideas , interactionist social psychology can only describe peoples ' beliefs , not explain them . |
| 22 | Scanning programs , such as Norton Disk Doctor , are incapable of diagnosing this precise disk fault , and can only describe a general fault . |
| 23 | All of the other theories to be discussed here can only describe what has happened ; they have no real conception of what the motive force of power or change is in society over time other than to rely on describing the eclectic , indeterminate behaviour of subjective and free individuals . |
| 24 | I can only describe it as naked lust . |
| 25 | We can only describe this briefly here ; further background material can be found in the Appendix , and full details can be found in Refs [ 5 ] — [ 9 ] . |
| 26 | ‘ And that from an Aussie ? ’ she was startled into answering , then went pink when he gave her a look of what she could only describe as approval . |
| 27 | But the program can only describe ; it offers no remedies . |
| 28 | A taxi was called and Hugo and the children left for Liverpool Street and I was left alone with my own thoughts , in a state of mind I could only describe as lustless . |
| 29 | A small indeterminate woman in a lightly belted black raincoat slipped in past me : she had wispy fair hair and I could see at once from whence the twins had inherited what I can only describe as their nebulousness — a sense of the nebulae or star cluster that is better seen out of the corner of the eye . |
| 30 | ‘ Just act as you usually do when you have to visit the privy , ’ he had instructed , with a grin that Isabel could only describe as fiendish . |