Example sentences of "[adv] describe it as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would rather describe it as a lively interest . ’ |
| 2 | Barry Humphries ' cartoon hero Barry McKenzie made cracks about Château Chunder , the star wine from down under , fondly describing it as a great emetic . |
| 3 | Pahdra Singh has told me that although Proby 's cousin did manage to register the stand as a car , he did so describing it as a 1964 Skoda with 300,000 miles on the clock . |
| 4 | The historian , Robert Currie , has justly described it as the ‘ architectural monument to Methodist ambitions at the beginning of the twentieth century ’ . |
| 5 | The Regional Health Authority tonight described it as a tragic story . |
| 6 | By further describing it as a ritual , the author might be taken to suggest that it was also part of an ongoing practice governed by unalterable rules . |
| 7 | The Soviet defence minister , seeking to justify the action , claimed that organised attempts were being made to establish a ‘ dictatorship of the bourgeois type ’ in the area ; the Lithuanian president , Vytautas Landsbergis , saw the conflict as a result of the ‘ fifty-one year confrontation between Lithuania and the USSR ’ , and the Russian president , Boris Yel'tsin , more forthrightly described it as an ‘ offensive against democracy ’ . |
| 8 | Barry Gray , spokesman for People Against the River Crossing , also described it as an " astonishing change of heart " . |
| 9 | Matzner and Tipler accordingly describe it as a ‘ fold singularity ’ . |