Example sentences of "he described the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He described the study of precedent and case law as being ‘ real academic activity ’ for police officers , thus supporting my contention that research into the philosophy of control is ‘ unreal ’ or polluting . |
| 2 | He described the former as derived from traditional sources and given theatrical form which demonstrated how his peasants and farmers would move in everyday life . |
| 3 | Sir : Terry Coleman reports ( 5 October ) the speech by Andrew Neil at a Fabian fringe meeting , in which he described the BBC licence fee as a poll tax and suggested that it was indistinguishable from the community charge . |
| 4 | He described the facilities as ‘ bricks , cement or mud-lined holes in the ground without steps or , by now , roofs ’ . |
| 5 | Road test editor David Vivian was spot on when he described the car as ‘ quite simply a revelation . ’ |
| 6 | Feeling rather guilty , Frau Nordern listened as he described the arrangements for Steinmark 's funeral . |
| 7 | He described the case to Warnie : |
| 8 | Ignoring Pinochet 's 1978 amnesty , he described the Joint Command as an ‘ illegal association ’ and charged 40 of those implicated with ‘ illegal deprivation of liberty . ’ |
| 9 | He described the ‘ indirect link ’ between sugar and a number of serious diseases and drew specific attention to the report 's conclusion that sugar may contribute to excess food consumption and obesity . |
| 10 | He described the US action as ‘ an outrage to Latin America ’ . |
| 11 | He described the Cabinet as split between ‘ bitterly opposed factions ’ led by Mr Hurd on one side and his successor as Home Secretary , Mr David Waddington , on the other . |
| 12 | In a very low-key , matter-of-fact way he described the meeting in Muldoon 's office and explained Detroit 's decision to eliminate regional management . |
| 13 | He described the task of reproducing the mosaic as ‘ something akin to piecing together a 1,500,000-piece jigsaw with the picture to be copied only half complete ’ . |
| 14 | He explained that their house down under the railway by the Bridge of Three Eyes had only one room , but his own eyes shone as he described the delights of a gypsy supper . |
| 15 | In 1911 , when he was working at the Rockefeller Institute in New York , he described the transmission of a malignant new growth by means of a cell-free filtrate . |
| 16 | In 1519 Von Hutten , a poet , published De Morbi Gallici Curatione per Administrationem Ligni Guaiaci in which he described the tortures of mercury treatment and the blessed relief of this new extract . |
| 17 | He described the coterie around John as ‘ a kind of Chelsea-Bloomsbury Group ’ and said that they were in and out of each other 's flats all the time . |
| 18 | Pliny the Younger 's account took the form of two letters to Tacitus , in which he described the fate that befell his uncle , and how he and his mother had fared . |
| 19 | This is how , in his partly autobiographical World of Surfing , he described the wave for which he is still remembered : |
| 20 | He described the work done at WRc to develop a reliable method for analysis of microcystin-R , the most toxic of the hepatotoxins . |
| 21 | For instance , when J. Henry Thoreau wrote of the greyness of rocks , he described the air as the thin paint in which they have been dipped and brushed by the wind . |
| 22 | He described the region as one of the few remaining pristine areas of the world , which must be retained for long term investigation . |
| 23 | He was an artillery officer and in his report to the Council of One and Twenty at Strasbourg he described the way in which ‘ poisoned vapours were shed abroad ’ by means of cats . |
| 24 | In a letter to Mrs Coutts he described the horror and the misery from which the mock election was a welcome diversion . |
| 25 | He described the resulting compositions as ‘ figures with architecture to animate them . ’ |
| 26 | Jesus was not being poetic when he described the Evil One as ‘ the father of lies ’ . |
| 27 | He described the mess over there , and how the Best of the West horse parade had ended ten minutes before the quake hit . |
| 28 | He described the physique of the two men he had seen upright : Zack and the gunman . |
| 29 | He described the blood sport as his country 's ‘ national feast ’ , but his opinions are not shared by his wife Queen Sofia . |
| 30 | He described the terrorists as ‘ discredited and unwanted ’ and said it was clear they had only one purpose — the triumph of evil . |