Example sentences of "[been] described " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Socialist Realism ’ has been described by Ernst Fischer as implying ‘ the artist 's or writer 's fundamental agreement with the aims of the working class and the emerging socialist world ’ ; in short , this is a stance of political progressivism . |
| 2 | It has even been described as a fundamental moral precept by more than one Irish catholic cleric : ‘ The law of the Church is quite definite , quite universal in this matter . |
| 3 | My concern here is with the mythology that has accompanied these advances ; the metaphysical claims implicit — and not infrequently explicit — in the way they have been described . |
| 4 | What if your place has been described for you as being a so-called ‘ minority ’ , or an ‘ emerging voice ’ ? |
| 5 | But business at the fair — the focal point of world publishing — has been described as quiet . |
| 6 | Earlier he had been described by Downing Street officials as only ‘ a semi-detached member of the government ’ . |
| 7 | The inadequacies of management in state enterprises have been described in dramatic terms by several Nigerian academic observers , one of whom wrote in 1974 that the reasons for the poor performance of the state-owned sector could be seen in the words of one observer ‘ in the over centralization of authority … inspired by sheer love of power ’ or by another : |
| 8 | The life of the farming families here has been harsh for hundreds of years but this harshness has been intensified by the laws on land inheritance and land revenue introduced by the British , which have already been described . |
| 9 | Beneath the graceful , almost sensual lines is a fearsome , sledgehammer power that has been described as ‘ just this side of reality . ’ |
| 10 | • Matra is developing what has been described as a ‘ four-wheel motorcycle ’ , using Clio 16-valve power . |
| 11 | American football itself has been described as an exercise in ‘ controlled violence ’ . |
| 12 | The important role of the environment in modifying behaviour , the external cause , has already been described . |
| 13 | The need for time-cues to produce a body clock with a stable 24-hour period has already been described . |
| 14 | This has been described in the chapter . |
| 15 | The clearest example of this is the alternation of two types of sleep — dream sleep and deep sleep , as described in Chapter 3 — but ultradian rhythms in urine production and the performance of mental tasks have been described also . |
| 16 | For those examples that have been described so far , the best advice that can be given to individuals is to help them to strengthen their time-cues and to take more notice of them . |
| 17 | Even so , giving bright light at a time which should not affect the body clock or even adjust it in the wrong direction could be tested — as has already been described . |
| 18 | The area around the farm had been described in detail the evening before , during the orders for the attack . |
| 19 | The proposed complex , designed by the architect James Stirling , has been described by the Prince of Wales as resembling ‘ a 1930s wireless set ’ . |
| 20 | Although the Trojan has been described , sensationally , as ‘ the biggest computer crime in the world , ’ what law does it break ? |
| 21 | ‘ It has been described to me as an isolated house in the midst of fields , through which are only rough and rutty waggon tracks , and I have been told too , that it is hidden from passers along the road by a dark grove of trees . |
| 22 | Die Grünen has been described by Petra Kelly as an ‘ anti-party party ’ , and getting into bed with them might be a guarantee of ending up on the floor . |
| 23 | The top 2.5 metres of the oceans have been described as being the equivalent in terms of heat capacity of the entire atmosphere . |
| 24 | The Nassau meeting has been described as ‘ one of the great confrontations in the history of Anglo-American relations . ' |
| 25 | Four alternative approaches have been described , and many others could be listed . |
| 26 | The perceptible facial expressions that have been described by other authors are mostly of no real help to us : ( i ) Yawning . |
| 27 | In 1549 , two years after the close of the first session of the Council of Trent — the Council whose stupendous achievements encompassed the comprehensive definition of Catholic doctrine and the unchallengeable assertion of papal power , and which has been described as the creator of the modern Catholic church — John Hamilton , archbishop of St Andrews since 1547 , held the first of his own reforming councils . |
| 28 | Early in the nineteenth century , the tendencies , or ‘ tropisms ’ , of plants to grow towards light and against gravity had been described . |
| 29 | Since Turing 's paper , however , an actual chemical reaction , Zhabotinsky 's reaction , that generates a pattern , has been described . |
| 30 | Although Mr Raban has been described as ‘ the finest writer afloat since Conrad ’ , he modestly forbears to include his own work . |