Example sentences of "describes [pn reflx] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Haselhurst claims that he is ‘ not aware of any preconceived plan ’ but seems unaware that Michel Rocard , Prime Minister of France , describes himself as ‘ a complete federalist ’ and of the recent advocacy by the five Christian Democrat leaders in Europe of a Single European Government and a Single European Parliament . |
| 2 | Reed disarmingly describes himself as ‘ nearly six feet tall and 13 stones when I 'm at my best ’ , but the banners appeared in force all the same . |
| 3 | Reed disarmingly describes himself as ‘ nearly six feet tall and 13 stones when I 'm at my best ’ , but the banners appeared in force all the same . |
| 4 | Though he describes himself as ‘ pro-life ’ , he did nothing to push the anti-abortion bill through parliament . |
| 5 | More surprising , one candidate describes himself as unemployed : Eric Clarke , the Left-wing former miner and senior NUM official . |
| 6 | Similarly a Yorkshire millworker describes himself as brought up by a grandfather ‘ who cared for me as perhaps few grandchildren are cared for ; ’ when the old man died during his teens , ‘ by this death I lost a friend . ’ |
| 7 | Ecstasy is a flight of the mind in which the mystic describes himself as being transported to another world . |
| 8 | Mr Quarmby describes himself as going ‘ cap in hand to the recording companies and asking them for advance rental income ’ . |
| 9 | Koda describes himself as semi-trained . |
| 10 | In his poetry he describes himself as ‘ one bred up in homely Cott ’ . |
| 11 | In the introduction to his first published work , Lodwick describes himself as not a scholar but a ‘ mechanick ’ , but his surviving library catalogue demonstrates that , even if self-educated , he was extremely well read . |
| 12 | He describes himself as having ‘ worked his way single-mindedly downwards ’ since a burst of popularity on the Sixties satirical circuit — and part of the reason for that is his determined production of radical anthems regardless of political or musical fashion . |
| 13 | He spent a good deal of time in his satires , presenting himself as a satirist — unplaced , unpensioned , no man 's heir or slave he proudly describes himself as he tells us that he 's willing to lash out at even the most eminent public figures . |
| 14 | Even as a child , Russell describes himself as having found this intellectual , religious background as intolerable , and he says that he spent endless hours meditating on the supposed rational grounds for Christianity . |
| 15 | Thirdly , a later section grandly describes itself as engaged in the ‘ [ r ] epeal of statutory powers of arrest without warrant or order ’ . |
| 16 | The Meineke ( 882811 w ) offers single rooms at Dm104–135 , and describes itself as ‘ superior middle-class ’ . |
| 17 | Betterware , which describes itself as ‘ UK 's leading housewares retailer in direct home shopping' , has included an accountant 's review report from Robson Rhodes in its interim report for the 28 weeks ended 12 September 1992 . |
| 18 | The company describes itself as ‘ essentially a warehousing operation with a sales front end ’ , and believes it is unique as a distribution agent in its very clearly defined ‘ editorial ’ view , which ensures that the mix of publishers whom it represents falls into three distinct categories : mind , body and spirit ; women 's ; and literature . |
| 19 | Russell Corporation describes itself as one of the world 's largest manufacturers of ‘ teamwear ’ , supplying outfits for most of the professional baseball teams and American Football teams in the United States . |
| 20 | She describes herself as ‘ big and strong ’ , even though she readily admits she probably is n't actually that big — that 's just the way she feels about herself , the way she feels she has to be . |
| 21 | More perplexing is the fact that although she gets all her work from one firm and has no control over the quantity , this woman describes herself as ‘ self-employed ’ . |