Example sentences of "be described [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | in another review of the criminal statistics , F. H. McClintock and N. H. Avison also direct us towards the relative stability in recorded crime levels between 1900 and 1914 which , they suggest , ‘ might be described as the stable but carefree Edwardian era ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ We did ask you nicely , ’ he said , with what can only be described as the faintest of smirks . |
| 3 | Bagehot argued that " the relation of Parliament , and especially of the House of Commons , to the executive government is the specific peculiarity of our Constitution " , and he made the point that " the efficient secret of the English constitution may be described as the close union , the nearly complete fusion , of the executive and legislative powers " . |
| 4 | And there are readers who have been deeply moved and impressed in the ways that we have described by books that can not be described as the best of anything . |
| 5 | It could be described as the Fordist method of international political regulation . |
| 6 | His manner of playing the piano has something so basically individual about it , and at the same time so masterly , that he may really be described as the perfect virtuoso . ’ |
| 7 | Scrutiny had an enormous influence on English studies , particularly in England , but its immediate model was the non-academic Calendar of Modem Letters , and more remotely the great Victorian reviews , whose contents might be described as the higher literary journalism . |
| 8 | ‘ The activities of this detachment of the 15th Fusiliers , and subsequently those of the 25th Regiment , should really be described as the wholesale plundering of the many vehicles in and around the village of every type of valuable . ’ |
| 9 | Temperament can be described as the general consistency with which an individual reacts to certain situations . |
| 10 | These could be described as the key elements of the ‘ purchasing mix ’ . |
| 11 | Only speculation is possible in offering a reason for the initial action , which could be described as the first rite . |
| 12 | By the time the 1958 World Cup was held in Sweden , the international game had reached what could be described as the first flowering of maturity . |
| 13 | The priority for developing these subsystems will depend on potential benefit , urgency of need , probability of success or natural precedence , which could be described as the next ‘ piece of the jigsaw , . |
| 14 | A second preoccupation evident in these papers is responsibility , and what could roughly be described as the ethical dimension of conceptualisation . |
| 15 | One of the companies involved in what can only be described as the latest round of unity talks among the warring Unix camps , which appear to be being sponsored by Unix International Inc , says that for all the fear , uncertainty and doubt unleashed by Microsoft Corp with Windows NT , the initiative still lacks the compulsion that galvanised the part of the industry — led by those that saw Unix primarily as a threat — to form the Open Software Foundation five years ago . |
| 16 | No longer can it be described as the sick man of the industry ’ |
| 17 | His work in this area greatly strengthened what can fairly be described as the British school of pharmacology , which is exemplified by Clark himself , and included Sir John Gaddum [ q.v . ] , |
| 18 | It could be described as the French equivalent of our potted meat — although it is very different in texture and taste . |
| 19 | It then becomes possible to formulate generalizations on what might be described as the sociolinguistic typology of low-status versus relatively standardized , higher-status phonological systems . |
| 20 | The claimant could not be described as the lawful holder of the bill of lading unless a given copy or all the copies issued by the carrier were designated as the original bill or set of bills . |
| 21 | At this point , then , the Chinese were the indispensable sponsors of Vietnamese independence and Ho himself is supposed to have assured them that he would work under their auspices and as a member of what might be described as the Vietnamese patriotic front . |
| 22 | In a similar way , F(t) may be described as the inverse Fourier transform of G ( ο).; |
| 23 | It may be described as the dialectical relationship between the broad objectivity of the socio-political circumstances of an age , embodied in the chorus , and the assertive subjectivity of the individual . |
| 24 | The first hypothesis is that , in the absence of any controls ( such as slope , lithology or structure ) , a stream pattern will develop randomly and will be described by the random-walk model . |
| 25 | Prior to the collision , the waves may be described by the familiar line element ( 4.15 ) . |
| 26 | In any event , unlike the autumn of 1557 , the time was now certainly ripe for the peculiar inspiration of John Knox , the man who , in the words of the English diplomat Randolph , ‘ is able in one hour to put more life into us than five hundred trumpets continually blustering in our ears ’ , and who would later be described by the same diplomat in 1561 , a week after Mary 's return to Scotland , as the preacher who ‘ thundereth out of the pulpit … he ruleth the roast , and of him all men stand in fear ’ . |
| 27 | Other expenditures that are dealt with in a similar fashion will be described in the second section of this chapter . |
| 28 | It is clear that the lexical representation is flexible enough to meet at least some of the demands of real speech , and certainly adequate for the experiments that will be described in the following chapters . |
| 29 | This may be described in the general formula u=J ( x , Y ) where U is the decision function , which has to be operated in conjunction with controllable variables X and uncontrollable variables Y. |
| 30 | These can then be described in the functional domain and interpreted into geometric relationships within the overlaid geometric domains . |