Example sentences of "[noun] describe [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eighty-five per cent are in full-time employment ; only 3% describe themselves are unemployed . |
| 2 | Ninety-four per cent of the men describe themselves as exclusively heterosexual ; only 3% describe themselves as either bisexual or homosexual . |
| 3 | It is reported that most cohabiting lone parents describe themselves as married and are therefore classified as such ( OPCS , 1985 ) . |
| 4 | The word I have here glossed as " mankind " was Jinghpaw , which is the term by which the people known to the British as Kachins describe themselves . |
| 5 | In talking about such occasions , our participants describe themselves as making non-demeaning withdrawals into silence . |
| 6 | Companies are keen to adopt the ‘ open ’ moniker simply for that purpose : how many suppliers these days describe themselves as open systems companies , when just a few years ago they would probably have sneered at the term . |
| 7 | The Freakniks , as singer/songwriter Justin Anderson , rapper Michael Lord , and singer Aki Amori describe themselves , are hard to categorise . |
| 8 | Two-thirds of the sample describe themselves as head of their households . |
| 9 | And apologists for Labour 's refusal to organise in Northern Ireland can not in all conscience describe themselves as democrats . |
| 10 | In fact , this is probably one of the commonest ways in which patients describe themselves . |
| 11 | Although Rein and Miller describe themselves as ‘ normative egalitarians ’ , any of the above positions may not be close to the view of the majority of economists or , more importantly , of the public at large . |
| 12 | She describes the circumstances in which she chose to focus on these tales : ‘ hearing a black woman describe herself as a daughter of Hagar outside the covenant ; … reading news reports of the dismembered body of a woman found in a trash can ’ . |
| 13 | This creativity is explored here in the sense of poetical creativity : the words of the poem describe themselves and their own genesis . |
| 14 | Ninety-four per cent of the men describe themselves as exclusively heterosexual ; only 3% describe themselves as either bisexual or homosexual . |
| 15 | Different schools of psychology describe themselves differently , but the discipline 's dominant view of itself is as an objective science , capable of consistent , complete explanation , and prediction . |
| 16 | The Transformers describe themselves as ‘ Belgian masters of spiritual Techno ’ . |
| 17 | The column distorts the way the advertisers describe themselves . |