Example sentences of "[noun sg] be described as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Measures passed by those of a different political hue were described as the work of a ‘ previous government ’ . |
| 2 | The shelling was described as the " first of its kind since the 1971 war " . |
| 3 | The crisis was described as the worst of its kind in Europe since the end of the Second World War . |
| 4 | SpreadBase is described as the first category-based modelling tool . |
| 5 | The victory of Roman imperialism can in its turn be described as the result of four factors : the new direction given by Rome to the social — that is the military — forces of old Italy ; the utter inability of any Hellenistic army to match the Romans in the field ; the painful erosion of Celtic civilization and its appendages which went on for centuries and ultimately enabled the Romans to control the resources of western Europe from the Atlantic to the Danubian regions ; and finally the cooperation of Greek intellectuals with Italian politicians and writers in creating a new bilingual culture which gave sense to life under Roman rule . |
| 6 | The Concord Centre is described as the North 's equivalent to Birmingham 's NEC and would include a stadium , conference and exhibition facilities , three museums , a multiplex cinema and a 24-lane bowling centre . |
| 7 | Built in 1130 , this Cistercian Abbey was described as the ‘ Fairest Abbey in all Wales ’ by Tudor historian John Leland . |
| 8 | The suspect was described as the ‘ man in the blue suit ’ , or the ‘ man with the staring eyes ’ . |
| 9 | The attack was described as the bloodiest in the troubled post-independence history of Casamance , and was the first major outbreak of violence since the government signed a peace agreement with the MFDC in May 1991 . |
| 10 | Hence with a double coffin , the inner container was described as the ‘ coffin' , the outer container being the ‘ case ’ . |
| 11 | He had at one stage been described as the worst farmer in Britain and RSPCA investigators found emaciated animals when they went there . |
| 12 | Chapter House contains one of the finest and most realistic leaf carvings in the world and the choir screen is described as the loveliest in England . |
| 13 | Christ 's atoning death on the cross is described as the price paid to release the slaves and free the condemned ( Eph. 1:7 ; Rom. 3:24 ; Heb. 9:15 ; 1 Cor. |
| 14 | The agreement was described as the first US arms sale to a former Warsaw Pact country . |
| 15 | At the time of the First World War the Shorthorn was described as the most widely distributed of all the breeds of cattle , both at home and abroad , and it far exceeded other purebreds in Britain while the great majority of commercial crossbreds also relied on Shorthorn blood . |