Example sentences of "described by one " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The effect of this policy has been described by one writer in the following terms : |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Described by one author as the Jekyll and Hyde Cat , this animal suddenly lashes out and attacks its friendly owner 's hand . |
| 14 | They moved on to Warkworth , on the coast , where Forster was now more or less elected to the post of James 's general in England , though he and his followers knew little of the art of war , being described by one observer as ‘ fox hunters armed with dress swords ’ . |
| 15 | Many sauropods , in spite of their ever-growing height spurred on by the need to reach the foliage of trees growing ever higher , had hollowed out , weight-saving vertebrae and a pelvic girdle described by one writer as being like a suspension bridge , with the massive erect hind legs acting as the down-pillar , and the long torso and rigid tail acting as the cross-span . |
| 16 | The site , on the east side of Bristol was described by one source as ‘ a superb place to host a festival ’ . |
| 17 | Terry Norris , the WBC superweight champion , scored an easy third-round stoppage of ‘ Irish ’ Pat Lawlor — described by one sportswriter as ‘ pound for pound , one of worst fighters in the world ’ . |
| 18 | Associated Nursing Services ' 1991 accounts , described by one analyst as ‘ weird ’ , were brought to the Panel 's attention for two reasons . |
| 19 | Bishop Fan Xueyan was described by one of his fellow bishops as someone who ‘ suffered a lot , spending his life between prison and freedom , more or less always under surveillance ’ . |
| 20 | The small talk before the meeting was described by one Minister as ‘ muted ’ , the atmosphere ‘ austere , a bit desolate ’ . |
| 21 | MORE than 3,000 job losses were announced yesterday in cutbacks grimly described by one union leader as ‘ an avalanche of destruction and misery . ’ |
| 22 | NME was tipped off last week that REM were planning to play an unannounced set with Buck and subsequent reports led to a rush for tickets , described by one insider as ‘ absolutely frantic . ’ |
| 23 | His father had been a prominent supporter of Edward II , and had been described by one chronicler as ‘ worse than Piers Gaveston ’ . |
| 24 | The undignified tussle over wages has been sourly described by one trade union leader as ‘ a return to the philosophy of the pig trough . ’ |
| 25 | This is how he was described by one of his courtiers , Walter Map : " Whatever way he goes out he is seized upon by the crowds and pulled hither and thither , pushed whither he would not and yet , surprising to say , he listens to each man with patience , and though assaulted by all with shouts and pullings and rough pushings , does not threaten anyone because of it , nor show any sign of anger ; only , when he is hustled beyond bearing , he silently retreats to some place of quiet . " |
| 26 | For example , the monarch was not spared by the pseudonymous critic Junius , who has been described by one historian as ‘ perhaps the ablest and most devastating political commentator ’ that England has ever produced ( Plumb , 1966 : 118 ) . |
| 27 | The summer of 1985 was described by one prominent football historian as ‘ the lowest ebb in the fortunes of British football ’ ( Walvin , 1986:6 ) . |
| 28 | As described by one character , this catch-all phrase is ‘ a short way of saying that they do n't claim to find either the ultimate cause or the ultimate cure , but they do know exactly how it functions , and can prescribe accordingly ’ ( 149/151 ) . |
| 29 | An interesting subsidiary finding was the head-office attitudes to risk assessment described by one interviewee : |
| 30 | The full amount of information contained in the molecular weight distribution is of course not to be described by one or two averages , the complete set of moments being required . |