Example sentences of "describe [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nathalie Sarraute once described literature as a relay race , the baton of innovation passing from one generation to another . |
| 2 | Joseph Black had described carbon dioxide in 1756 while Henry Cavendish described hydrogen in 1766 . |
| 3 | Herbert Read described Constructivism as an ‘ Art of Determined Relations ’ . |
| 4 | What seems more difficult to find nowadays is genuine passion and thankfully no-one with the will to survive could ever describe Bitumen as wishy-washy . |
| 5 | In such a view , ‘ Catholic ’ was simply a term which described part of the population . |
| 6 | He described handwriting as a ‘ dance of the pen ’ : so it was when he himself wrote . |
| 7 | He could have side-stepped the issue completely , but he chose to give a frank response , dismissing as ‘ garbage ’ a Federal Bureau of Narcotics ' pamphlet which described marijuana as ‘ a powerful narcotic in which lurks murder , insanity and death ’ , words that might well have been taken as a reference to events in Hollywood , because they were almost identical to words used by the mass media in descriptions of Manson . |
| 8 | I would n't describe Rattle 's treatment as in any way unfeeling , merely that the various strands are shaped and honed with an unusual sensitivity to detail but at a relatively low emotional temperature . |
| 9 | Richard Conquest , chief economist at Daiwa Institute of Research , described Labour 's tax plans , as ‘ an unprecedented fiscal assault upon higher income taxpayers ’ . |
| 10 | I could do no better than use the graphic terms in which my hon. Friend described Labour 's position . |
| 11 | Doctor Pike is quite certain that under normal circumstances — he did n't say he did in this instance — that he would describe side effects and dangers . |
| 12 | It beats me how he can describe opposition to military occupation as ‘ aggression ’ . |
| 13 | You may remember that we discussed the distinction between open and closed classes in Chapter 3 when we described research into early syntactic development in children 's speech . |
| 14 | Paying tribute to his fellow Yorkshireman and regular Northants colleague , Dennis Brookes described Den Fiddling as ‘ an efficient county wicketkeeper and a good team man ’ . |
| 15 | With a ground offensive widely expected in 1984 , Iran 's President Ali Khamenei described closure as an option his country was indeed contemplating . |
| 16 | In announcing the appointment Bush described Card , a former state legislator in Massachusetts , as " a friend of many years " , who had served in Bush 's campaign teams in the presidential elections of 1980 and 1988 , had then served for three years as deputy Chief of Staff to the controversial John Sununu , but had maintained a reputation for managerial efficiency and diplomacy . |
| 17 | A chief council planner described car parking at Darlington Memorial Hospital as chaotic . |
| 18 | It was voiced by the Queen 's Surgeon , Sir Henry Thompson , who described cremation as absolutely necessary for the bodies of those dying of infectious diseases . |
| 19 | This is rather like the moment in Lewis 's life when he described philosophy as a subject and Barfield replied that to Plato , philosophy was not a subject but a way . |
| 20 | In his book , MODELS OF REVELATION , Avery Dulles described symbolism as having four properties . |
| 21 | It flourishes best in deep moist ground , and Michael Drayton described south Lincolnshire as ‘ hempbearing Holland 's Fen ’ . |
| 22 | And this is how you could best describe swimbladder disease . |
| 23 | It can describe ambience and atmosphere or soul and spirit . |
| 24 | We described overload in Chapter 2 . |
| 25 | They described village life to each other in intricate detail . |
| 26 | He fears they were offended by a debate which described work methods introduced in their British factories as ‘ alien . ’ |
| 27 | When Clausewitz described war as ‘ the continuation of policy by other means ’ , Lenin also understood this to mean that peace was the continuation of war by other means . |
| 28 | Sir Richard Burton , who described danger as the ‘ salt of pleasure ’ , also travelled through central Africa . |
| 29 | Physics and physical science students had a strong sense of the hierarchy of different disciplines ; Debbie , for example , described business studies ( which she had originally hoped to study at university ) as a ‘ soft option ’ ; a first-year physics student at A described astro-physics ( a course also run by the department ) as ‘ watered-down physics ’ . |
| 30 | Mr Bagnall described business this year as ‘ hesitant but improving ’ , with the improvement particularly noticeable in some of the southern shops . |