Example sentences of "[adv] describe [pers pn] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would rather describe it as a lively interest . ’ |
| 2 | Barry Humphries ' cartoon hero Barry McKenzie made cracks about Château Chunder , the star wine from down under , fondly describing it as a great emetic . |
| 3 | Pahdra Singh has told me that although Proby 's cousin did manage to register the stand as a car , he did so describing it as a 1964 Skoda with 300,000 miles on the clock . |
| 4 | The Regional Health Authority tonight described it as a tragic story . |
| 5 | The counsellor said , ‘ You are describing Sarah in a very loving and respectful way — but you sound angry when you say that you expect me to pull you up for not describing her as a lover , too . |
| 6 | Patients at Dr Jordan 's 1,530-strong practice yesterday described him as a ‘ conscientious grafter ’ . |
| 7 | By further describing it as a ritual , the author might be taken to suggest that it was also part of an ongoing practice governed by unalterable rules . |
| 8 | The Soviet defence minister , seeking to justify the action , claimed that organised attempts were being made to establish a ‘ dictatorship of the bourgeois type ’ in the area ; the Lithuanian president , Vytautas Landsbergis , saw the conflict as a result of the ‘ fifty-one year confrontation between Lithuania and the USSR ’ , and the Russian president , Boris Yel'tsin , more forthrightly described it as an ‘ offensive against democracy ’ . |
| 9 | Barry Gray , spokesman for People Against the River Crossing , also described it as an " astonishing change of heart " . |
| 10 | He often described him as a truly Christian Prince . ’ |
| 11 | He was engaged in trading abroad , in cloth and books , and by 1650 was an important member of the community associated with the London Dutch church ; he was also a friend of Samuel Hartlib [ q.v. ] , who often describes him as an ‘ informant ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ I would n't describe it as an assault but it was certainly reckless and dangerous play . |
| 13 | Does the Chief Secretary remember the October 1974 general election when he was my opponent in West Bromwich and then described me as a militant ? |
| 14 | Although , from time to time , some of our colleagues on the shop floor who ran into difficulties you know , er sometimes described you as a tool of management , er which was to say the least you know , er entirely untrue . |
| 15 | My mother , wild with exasperation , one day again described me as a lump . |
| 16 | Matzner and Tipler accordingly describe it as a ‘ fold singularity ’ . |
| 17 | The woman seemed pious and withdrawn : indeed , one of the innkeepers actually described her as a nun . |
| 18 | Bede says that he was in exile for the purposes of study and he subsequently described him as a most learned man ( HE V , 12 ) . |
| 19 | While he returned from that campaign with greater maturity , even his best friends would never describe him as a man of great ambition . |