Example sentences of "described as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He exuded confidence , and even cracked jokes , at what he described as the pitiful state of the mujahedin 's strategy conducted by Pakistan . |
| 2 | It may , however , be argued that there were deeper reasons for the relative weakness of African entrepreneurs at this time , that is , the absence of the kind of ‘ worldly asceticism ’ which Weber described as the key to European capitalism . |
| 3 | Steiner accepted that the Situationists had identified and accurately described the emptiness of everyday life and even accepts their pleas for subversion , but was very sour about what he described as the ‘ depressingly banal ’ prescriptions of Debord and the ‘ turgid creed ’ of Vaneigem . |
| 4 | Whereas James I and James IV had built great halls , James V , like the first two Tudor kings , created a series of rooms , in Scotland described as the guard hall , the presence chamber and the bedchamber . |
| 5 | Mr Major 's strongest words were reserved for what he believes is the threat to the constitution of the United Kingdom — which he described as the ‘ sleeping issue ’ of the election . |
| 6 | But , Mr Lamont , Chancellor of the Exchequer , wrote to Mr Kinnock last night , challenging what he described as the ‘ lie ’ at the centre of the Labour campaign . |
| 7 | He returned 15 years later to set up what he described as the ‘ government of God ’ . |
| 8 | In the troposphere he emphasised the important reactions of the hydroxyl radical , which he described as the ‘ detergent ’ of the atmosphere because of its pollutant removal capacity , particularly in the tropics . |
| 9 | She felt he would be most useful on what she described as the ‘ solid ’ material , balancing her more ‘ fanciful ’ approach . |
| 10 | This ‘ success ’ prompted a further onslaught by senior ministers against what Baker described as the ‘ hysterical gossiping ’ among MPs about the leadership . |
| 11 | On Tuesday , the Queen was wheeled out for her first-ever appearance at the European Parliament to give what the Guardian wittily described as the ‘ royal oui ’ to the EC . |
| 12 | The primary basis of UDC support , however , was what Morel described as the ‘ enthusiasm and spiritual driving power ’ of the ILP , together with the local structures of the trade union movement . |
| 13 | Speculation indeed he described as the disease of the age ; he never preached about predestination . |
| 14 | But he lived to reflect on what he described as the ‘ luckiest escape of my life ’ |
| 15 | This had then opened up what Schweitzer described as the ‘ psychologising ’ approach to Jesus , which set out to explore his understanding of himself , tracing his awareness of God , his key ideas , even the development of his teaching through the career which ran from Galilee to Golgotha . |
| 16 | ‘ Abe ’ Finkel and his colleagues carried out what the critic Abel Green described as the ‘ canny Burbanking ’ of the material , but there was still a need for intervention by Breen , who asked Wallis to ensure that the film was not a direct attack on conditions in the mines . |
| 17 | Rickford attacked what he described as the hysteria of the opposition to BT : the fear is that the US is being ‘ opened up to a conspiracy of foreigners against which the US needs to defend itself . ’ |
| 18 | Such qualities include not only those which are naturally useful or agreeable but also what he described as the artificial virtues , in particular justice . |
| 19 | The 88000 Slater described as the most highly integrated of early RISC implementations with a very clean architecture and no major warts , except perhaps the combined integer-floating point register file . |
| 20 | But now as she stood looking at herself in a full length looking glass , she could see that she had indeed what the magazines described as the perfect figure , firm round breasts , a narrow flat waist , good hips , a small posterior , and long slender legs which were greatly enhanced by the silk stockings the assistant had carefully rolled on to them . |
| 21 | The whole matter was not so much solved as channelled in another direction by the sudden love match between Mary and her first cousin Henry , Lord Darnley , whom she described as the ‘ properest and best proportioned long man ’ she had ever seen . |
| 22 | Having constructed a working model , as it were , he left his conscious mind to one side and relied upon his ear — what he described as the interdependence of rhythm and diction , or the recognition of meaning when it is embodied in cadence . |
| 23 | The idea that conversation proceeds according to a principle , known and applied by all human beings , was first proposed in a limited form by the philosopher Paul Grice ( 1975 ) , who put forward what he described as the co-operative principle . |
| 24 | In the recent decision of Murphy v. Brentwood DC [ 1990 ] 2 All ER 908 , the House of Lords has put an end to what it described as the ‘ uncertainty ’ created by Lord Wilberforce 's wide principle by using the 1966 Practice Statement to overrule Anns . |
| 25 | The reservoir behind it , Lake Powell ( or ‘ Lake Foul ’ as it is called by environmentalists , who think it dishonours his name ) flooded 186 miles of Grand Canyon , which Powell and others who saw it described as the most beautiful of all the West 's river canyons . |
| 26 | Mr. Harrison 's careful and closely argued submissions opened by pointing out what he described as the ‘ commercially absurd consequences of the landlord 's case . ’ |
| 27 | Union conferences passed motions condemning what they described as the growing use of temporary workers and employers ' strategies of substituting temporary for permanent workers . |
| 28 | For the thriller , the solution to the narrative 's enigma is the unveiling of the criminal ; for the romance , it is what Germaine Greer described as the ‘ Almighty kiss ’ . |
| 29 | Some changes , however , were made in the draft to satisfy those who had challenged it in this way : union republics were given eleven rather than seven seats each in the Supreme Soviet 's Council of Nationalities and ex officio places on the Committee of Constitutional Supervision , and changes of wording were made in order to remove what Gorbachev described as the ‘ misunderstanding ’ that the rights of republics had been infringed . |
| 30 | The Leningrad party leader Boris Gidaspov , a member of the Secretariat from 1990 onwards , placed most of his emphasis upon central control and discipline ; he was openly dismissive of ideas of ‘ people 's capitalism ’ and ‘ nonparty glasnost' ’ and in 1991 attacked what he described as the ‘ anti-democratic liquidationist movement ’ that was taking advantage of the weakness and indecision of the party leadership . |