Example sentences of "[was/were] described as the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The USSR Supreme Soviet on May 16 passed what was described as the first unclassified legislation regulating the state security services . |
| 2 | Earlier in the month , on Nov. 8 , Roh had attended a one-day meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa in Kyoto , in what was described as the first of a planned series of regular bilateral discussions . |
| 3 | The agreement was described as the first US arms sale to a former Warsaw Pact country . |
| 4 | It was described as the second largest in Europe . |
| 5 | Some reports suggested that it had survived what was described as the fourth attempted coup since Bashir took power from the government of Sadiq el-Mahdi in June 1989 [ see p. 36728 ] . |