Example sentences of "[noun] describe it as [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Coun Bob Brady , committee chairman described it as an exciting project which would be part of the town 's City Challenge programme . |
| 2 | The radical William Cobbett described it as a ‘ poor man 's robbery bill ’ , designed to reduce the standards of the labouring poor . |
| 3 | Jim described it as a ‘ user friendly ’ locomotive , it is possible to keep on using the machine continuously without having to take it out of service for maintenance . |
| 4 | A vet described it as the worse case of neglect he 'd ever seen . |
| 5 | Condemning the loyalist petrol bombing of homes at Legar Hill Park on the edge of the city , Councillor Pat Brannigan described it as a ‘ despicable act ’ . |
| 6 | In a written statement issued on Oct. 15 after consultation with Hau Pei-Tsun , President Lee Teng-hui described it as a " rash and irresponsible act in total disregard of national security , social stability and the welfare of the people " , and called for penalties in accordance with the law . |
| 7 | His appointment was dismissed by the ANC as a " sham " , although in a seemingly contradictory statement ANC president Nelson Mandela described it as an " encouraging step " . |
| 8 | Mrs Gibson described it as a living history book . |
| 9 | Jan Morris described it as a combination of Tibetan monastic and English penal , with both Moorish and Romanesque detail . |
| 10 | King Fahd ibn Abdul Aziz declared that the disaster was " God 's unavoidable will " , and government officials described it as an " accident " and due to " panic " following the collapse of a pedestrian access bridge , denying that a power cut had halted the air supply in the tunnel . |
| 11 | Lord Williams described it as a system the old Soviet Union would have been proud of . |
| 12 | Their interest and appreciation of our efforts was further spelt out when , in concluding the visit , Peter Davey , Director and Head of Research at FPV Inc and leader of the group described it as an ‘ outstanding visit ’ which had provided all concerned with a greater appreciation of JM 's activities . |
| 13 | As is always the case not everyone was pleased : one of Booth 's team described it as a ‘ large and rather ugly building ’ although ‘ its interior looks well enough when crowded with people . ’ |
| 14 | The title of a recent book on structuralism describes it as a revolution — ; La révolution structurale ( Benoist 1976 ) — and it is in this perspective that the phenomenon is best approached . |
| 15 | WUKO Chief Referee Tommy Morris describes it as the sort of sound you make when pushing a really heavy car ; the sound explodes out of you , as it were . |
| 16 | But chairman Sir Ian Trethowan described it as a ‘ cost effective ’ way into the US market which will add the adolescent delights of sitcoms such as ‘ Gim me a Break ’ to Thames 's programme library . |
| 17 | Does my right hon. Friend remember that when the investment income surcharge was abolished in 1984 , the then Chancellor of the Exchequer described it as an unfair and anomalous tax on savings and on the rewards of personal enterprise ? |
| 18 | Jesus described it as a spiritual rebirth . |
| 19 | Although Serbian officials dismissed the incident as an outbreak of mass hysteria , Albanians described it as a mass poisoning perpetrated by Serbian nationalists , and anti-Serbian and anti-Montenegrin demonstrations quickly broke out across the province . |
| 20 | Green Party activist Sara Parkin described it as a step towards " turning the green vision of an ecologically sustainable society into a practical reality " . |
| 21 | Participants in the plenum described it as the stormiest in Gorbachev 's six years as party leader . |
| 22 | Its results can be heard to best effect in the rapt serenity of the slow movement of the Second Quartet ; the composer described it as an ‘ intimate talk between God and man ’ , and it really is music of extraordinary beauty , a half-lit oasis of repose amid the vigour of the rest of the Quartet . |
| 23 | Manager Lennie Lawrence described it as a good old-fashioned scrap . |
| 24 | One commentator described it as the moment when de Gaulle 's spell was broken . |
| 25 | Lawrence Durrell described it as a way of becoming more human . |
| 26 | Philip Dodderidge described it as a ‘ most extraordinary book ’ . |
| 27 | When sentencing him at Oxford Crown Court today , Judge Leo Clarke described it as a motiveless and shocking attack . |
| 28 | One Bank of England official described it as the biggest scandal since the South Sea Bubble . |
| 29 | Dr Carson described it as a ‘ very rare ’ cause of death and said that neither he nor his colleagues had ever seen cases with such severity of infection of the umbilical cord . |
| 30 | Police described it as a ‘ tragic waste of a young life ’ . |