Example sentences of "describe them as " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , I can not get excited by them ( and that applies to the passion they generate in a sexual as well as a moralistic sense ) and would certainly not ever describe them as sublime . |
| 2 | If we may further generalize on these projects , we may describe them as setting up models of teaching methods and materials , thus tending to extend and develop user education methods , rather than analysing and criticizing existing methodologies and materials . |
| 3 | Many of these , like the Forte Hotel Village , are fully self-contained , you might describe them as small holiday resorts in their own right , offering everything you need for a marvellous stay in unspoilt surroundings , away from the more commercialised resort areas . |
| 4 | We shall therefore describe them as ‘ translucent ’ . |
| 5 | Changes in the industry during his career — from bottle ovens to tunnel kilns , from roller making to dust pressing — he would describe them as revolutionary . |
| 6 | The tribe developed a unique aptitude for horse-breeding , and Meriwether Lewis described them as having a method of gelding ‘ preferable to that practiced by ourselves ’ . |
| 7 | Fred Heatley described them as ‘ an autonomous adjunct of the Republican Movement ’ , and Roy Johnston called them ‘ a Fabian Society to the Republican Movement ’ . |
| 8 | He described them as cowardly , hesitant , selfish , timorous , suspicious , fearful , parsimonious , miserly , small-minded , ill-humoured and avaricious . |
| 9 | Mrs B , just down the lane from the farm , described them as rather wild . |
| 10 | The room where the four senior and four junior counsel from Edinburgh would work was fitted out with several very basic trestle tables , not perhaps quite what members of the Faculty of Advocates are used to working on , but Alistair Bruce described them as very resilient people . |
| 11 | He described them as ‘ useless in defence , useless in midfield and crap up front ’ . |
| 12 | Another 17.93 per cent he found to be living in ‘ secondary ’ poverty , i.e. their income was above the minimum but Rowntree 's investigators described them as ‘ obviously living in a state of poverty , i.e. in obvious want and squalor ’ . |
| 13 | The Canadian naturalist John Macoun explored the prairies in the 1850s and described them as ideal agricultural country . |
| 14 | At the Non-Aligned Summit the following year in Havana he demanded ‘ the termination of all imperialistic foreign military bases in the territory of others ’ and described them as ‘ being inconsistent with the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the countries concerned ’ . |
| 15 | In Smith v. Land & house Property Corporation ( 1884 C.A. ) the seller of some premises described them as ‘ let to Mr. Frederick Fleck ( a most desirable tenant ) . ’ |
| 16 | The judicial reforms were detailed on May 8 by Deputy Premier and Chairman of the State Control Commission Manush Myftiu , who described them as strengthening the observance of human rights . |
| 17 | The signature of the amendments by Hrawi was immediately rejected by Gen. Michel Aoun , the former Army Commander and self-declared interim Premier of Lebanon , who described them as " contestable " . |
| 18 | The Conservative Party ( CP ) described them as " a recipe for revolution " , whereas the Democratic Party said that the proposals included virtually everything it had called for . |
| 19 | It described them as aligned with Singh or with acting party president and former Prime Minister Krishna Prasad Bhattarai . |
| 20 | The raids led to a strong diplomatic protest from the Solomons ' Prime Minister Solomon Mamaloni , who described them as " provocative " . |
| 21 | The Phoenix Dance Company instructors told us several times that our movements were very good and at one time described them as ‘ nice . ’ |
| 22 | The Phoenix Dance Company instructors told us several times that our movements were very good and at one time described them as ‘ nice . ’ |
| 23 | The Abbot of the Abbey of St Mary , John Blake , built two fulling mills in the town during the 16th century , these being duly noted by the much-travelled Leland who , in 1535 , describes them as ‘ being wonderfully necessary by cause the town standith all by clothing ’ . |
| 24 | ( Harry Hawke describes them as now sounding bad beyond belief ) . |
| 25 | At times she seems to see women as so ‘ brainwashed ’ that they are scarcely human ; thus she describes them as ‘ fembots ’ , even as ‘ mutants ’ . |
| 26 | One commentator describes them as key , routine and decisionless decisions . |
| 27 | THE Church of Scotland has launched a blistering attack on Conservative social and economic policies , describing them as unacceptable in a civilised society and accusing the Chancellor , Mr Lamont , of expressing ‘ hollow and cynical ’ views . |
| 28 | In charting them , Le Roy Ladurie frequently uses the device ( a favourite of his ) of describing them as infectious diseases , and , indeed , relies on a whole range of similar metaphors . |
| 29 | When The Times ( 17 August 1898 ) first turned its attention to the August disorders , describing them as ‘ something like organised terrorism in the streets ’ , it struck the key-note in an editorial on ‘ The Weather and the Streets ’ : |
| 30 | His son , Ernest , wrote Stockmar 's Memoirs , describing them as lifting the veil ‘ but a little ’ . |