Example sentences of "[noun prp] describe [pron] as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ramsey described him as a character , without popular appeal , donnish , with no great interest in his big rural diocese , but full of wisdom and learning , and eager for friendship with young men . |
| 2 | Jan Morris described it as a combination of Tibetan monastic and English penal , with both Moorish and Romanesque detail . |
| 3 | Lord Williams described it as a system the old Soviet Union would have been proud of . |
| 4 | WUKO Chief Referee Tommy Morris describes it as the sort of sound you make when pushing a really heavy car ; the sound explodes out of you , as it were . |
| 5 | His dark night of the soul came in the Chinama Motel in faraway Lusaka , after his escape from South Africa , as he lay listening to the foreign service of Radio South Africa describing him as a liar , a crook and a psychopath . |
| 6 | Green Party activist Sara Parkin described it as a step towards " turning the green vision of an ecologically sustainable society into a practical reality " . |
| 7 | Lawrence Durrell described it as a way of becoming more human . |
| 8 | Hubert described him as a man of very great genius and originality ; a man of learning but also of much modesty and simplicity of character . |
| 9 | " Sir Edmund described him as a financier of sorts . " |
| 10 | Dolle described herself as a dancer ( she had worked in Las Vegas ) and a traveller . |
| 11 | On hearing of her death , Prime Minister Cavaco Silva described her as a person ‘ of exceptional quality who contributed with vigour and impartiality to the appreciation of culture in Portugal and the presentation of Portuguese culture abroad . ’ |
| 12 | Homer described it as a monster with the body of a goat , tail of a DRAGON and head of a lion , belching flames . |