Example sentences of "describe as [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Protesting against what they described as years of neglect by the French authorities , young militants among the 420,000-strong community engaged in repeated clashes with police , and some 15 people were injured on July 23-25 . |
| 2 | So far I have given the impression that , if we use the notion of gift in the widest possible sense , then gift exchanges constitute the visible expression of what social anthropologists clumsily describe as networks of person-to-person relationships . |
| 3 | Erm convergence erm they describe as Individuals shift their speech styles to become more alike that of those with whom they are interacting . |
| 4 | A 13 year old girl and her younger brother , from Bartestree near Hereford , were stopped by a man in a white car and wearing what they describe as police uniform , who offered them a lift home . |
| 5 | These are rightly described as pressure-points in the lives of women . |
| 6 | Well no they were just described as tinkies . |
| 7 | Conventions of the Constitution are most aptly described as rules that are considered binding by and upon those who are responsible for making the Constitution work , but rules that are not enforced by the courts or by the presiding officers in either house of Parliament . |
| 8 | The non-owners of the means of production , however , can not all be described as proletarians . |
| 9 | The three areas can be described as ones of political — religious mediation occurring at different levels of social process . |
| 10 | It was sent from West German industrial sites described as goods in transit , thus evading controls on waste importation . |
| 11 | Any group of people will , over time , develop common rules governing their behaviour , and these rules are often described as norms . |
| 12 | An example of Wimsatt 's ( 1958 : 147 — 8 ) is what he calls the metaphor , and many would call the simile , in the last line of this passage from Donne 's ‘ A Valediction : forbidding mourning ’ ( like Eliot , the New Critics were particularly attached to the Metaphysical poets ) : The comparison between the lovers ' separation and the hammering of gold into leaf-form brings together two terms which are clearly quite different and therefore might justifiably be described as opposites ; and the conjunction of meanings thus established creates a series of connections ( the relationship between the separated lovers is like gold leaf in that it is ethereal ( ‘ ayery ’ ) , delicate , easily damaged , but at the same time precious , pure , bright , etc. ) , which when related to real experience possesses considerable illuminating force . |
| 13 | If , however , they were described as services which can bring millions of pounds into the local economy annually , the perception of welfare rights might change . |
| 14 | Many others might be described as acts of God — receiving a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis , for example . |
| 15 | Penwith and Kerrier hundreds were obviously poorer than the eastern parts of the shire ; a high proportion of men were taxed on wages who had not been thought worth mentioning in the earlier survey , many of them poor immigrants variously described as tinners or labourers . |
| 16 | My hon. Friend is right to draw attention to the pattern of killing involving those who are described as collaborators . |
| 17 | Modern economic transactions assume forms of complex association between a number of parties , not all of which can be described as agreements or exchanges . |
| 18 | Merisel Inc has found that it 's easier to rush a catalogue out than to make sure that everything in it is correct , and in a series of schoolboy howlers in the current edition , the name of Conner Peripherals Inc is misspelled , many of its hard disks are described as floppies — and their access times of between 19ms to 1ms are rendered as 19Microsoft to 12Microsoft . |
| 19 | There are a few thickenings in some of them , but these can hardly be described as brains . |
| 20 | The HEARSAY-II system defines words in terms of syllable types , which are described as groupings of broad class phonemes . |
| 21 | His uncle , sister , and brother can all be described as nationalists and although Ho seems to have been attracted at one point to the China of the 1911 Revolution , he chose instead to make his way to France where , having led an intellectually enriched but materially impoverished existence in Paris , he achieved some fame , or notoriety , among his fellow expatriates by attempting to present a list of Vietnamese grievances to Woodrow Wilson and the European statesmen who had gathered in 1919 at Versailles . |
| 22 | Although he maintains that every monad is distinguished from every other in virtue of the attributes it has , he nevertheless refuses to regard monads as mere agglomerations ' of attributes — or what might be more appropriately described as groups or " bundles " of qualities , without a " substratum " . |
| 23 | Something carries on her arm five offspring , variously described as planets , moons , and cylinders . |
| 24 | Consequently , recent developments have concentrated upon what may be described as systems of ‘ clinical budgeting ’ . |
| 25 | One approach is to oppose the peasantry to the rest of the population , most of whom can be loosely described as labourers , and then to identify élites which stood above the mass of the people . |
| 26 | The Holsteins also tend to have much more white in the coat so that the white areas predominate and they could almost be described as white-and-blacks in contrast to the black-and-white Friesian type . |
| 27 | In Fez , where 15 people had been hospitalized after similar clashes in October , a court on Nov. 8 pronounced sentences of up to four years on 30 students ( 16 Islamic fundamentalists and 14 described as Marxist-Leninists ) . |
| 28 | As we have pointed out previously , they would in our view be more accurately described as institutes of further and higher education . |
| 29 | But in the 781 families surveyed , 262 mothers are nevertheless described as wage-earners , 153 on a regular basis . |
| 30 | Several yeomen in Rutland were described as servants , while the Discourse of the Common Weal comments ‘ xl a yeare was good honeste wages for a yeoman afore this time , and xxd a wekes borde wages was sufficient ’ . |