Example sentences of "described [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rudolf , who was born in 1552 , and succeeded to the throne in 1576 , has been described as one of the most ineffectual though one of the most cultured Habsburg rulers . |
| 2 | Once again , one could elaborate this basic picture , which may loosely be described as one of ‘ mutual paranoia ’ . |
| 3 | PRINCESS Diana was lured by smooth-talking Courtney after he was described as one of the country 's top pioneers in Aids research . |
| 4 | This is somewhat confusing because the centre of interest may be jobs or skills rather than tasks , and strictly the procedure is often more accurately described as one of synthesis rather than analysis . |
| 5 | ‘ Ghost ’ has been described as one of the most quiet and diffident members of the Somerset team . |
| 6 | Indeed , she has been described as one of the founders of modern British geography . |
| 7 | In fact , the American constitution has been more accurately described as one of ‘ separated institutions sharing powers ’ ( Neustadt , 1976 , p. 101 ) . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , regional policy could hardly be described as one of the current Government 's priorities . |
| 9 | The Federal Assembly on Jan. 21 did , however , ratify an Agreement on the Protection of Human Rights and Basic Freedoms , described as one of the most significant steps in Czechoslovakia 's road to democracy . |
| 10 | In fact it is often described as one of the worst jobs possible . |
| 11 | Among them is the Cuban outfit Sierra Maestra , who are at the Irish Centre on Saturday , and are responsible for a type of music called ‘ son ’ , described as one of the most crucial dance rhythms of our times . |
| 12 | Such structural components are often called objects , and one approach is to combine them with the logical objects we have just described into one uniform mechanism . |
| 13 | It was by Roland Summit , a child psychiatrist based in California in the United States , who had been described in one newspaper article as being discredited . |
| 14 | As some girls suddenly look too tall to be ballet dancers , she became too large for her father 's devotion , for Haverford always preferred smallish women with what he had once described in one of his more personal ‘ Jottings ’ as the ‘ tip-tilted noses of impertinent page-boys ’ . |
| 15 | The management of the trustees is really , I venture to think , of the nature of what is described in one of the rules as a private or domestic use , and so described for the purpose of making it clear that it is not to be allowed as a deduction . |
| 16 | Neither of them cared for the sexually explicit — ‘ Rather like having an operation described to one , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 17 | In 1988 Lieutenant-General Maher Abd al-Rashid , war hero of campaigns in the south and described at one time as having fought a ‘ perfect tank battle ’ in the desert near the Howeizah marshes , was said to be under house arrest . |
| 18 | He was described by one of his students as being ‘ a brilliant man but so practically inept that he needed help to cross the road safely ’ . |
| 19 | Described by one writer as a cross between ‘ a sultan and a bandolier , a caliph and an ascetic , and a rural schoolmaster and a guerrilla ’ , Mr Anguita , 48 , is the kind of politician who carries his own revolver . |
| 20 | Most recently , it has acquired HN-5A infra-red guided anti-aircraft missiles , which are Chinese copies of the Soviet SAM 7 missiles and described by one military analyst as a cheap version of the Stingers used by the resistance in Afghanistan . |
| 21 | Finland also attempted to shore up the markka with the appointment of a new woman central bank governor , Sirkka Haemaelaeinen , described by one banker as a ‘ market orientated tough egg ’ . |
| 22 | The senior management in all the survey schools were concerned with the central problem described by one school as ‘ any distribution of monies to departments is fraught with difficulties — each department is aware of its own pressing needs and yet the overall sum available is insufficient to meet the needs of all ’ . |
| 23 | Thus the early discomfort is described by one author as ‘ a sensation of tingling or pricking which comes and goes suddenly , as if a fly were settling down ’ . |
| 24 | Perhaps the most poignant part of her latest novel is the story of Christine , oldest of the sisters , who grows up in the 1950s , and is later described by one of her sisters as ‘ a feminist before her time ’ — which is , as the sister observes , a highly lonely position . |
| 25 | The same room in one house had been described by one agent as 26ft 6in long and 14ft wide ( 8 x 4.2m ) , and by another agent as 19ft 3in long and 15ft 4in ( 5.8 x 4.6m ) wide . |
| 26 | The effect of this policy has been described by one writer in the following terms : |
| 27 | Ninety per cent of farms are seven hectares or less and 54 per cent are plots of less than 1.4 hectares , described by one writer as ‘ the size of a grave ’ . |
| 28 | These were not of the best quality ; lighting in the first instance was oil , then gas , but on the introduction of electrically lit stock , the batteries were always run down or low in the winter , and described by one wag , a regular user of the service , as reminiscent of ‘ a red hot hairpit ’ . |
| 29 | If not quite ‘ that elderly British pair ’ as they were described by one TV station , they were older than the other writers and this sometimes had its benefits . |
| 30 | Described by one author as the Jekyll and Hyde Cat , this animal suddenly lashes out and attacks its friendly owner 's hand . |