Example sentences of "describe [pron] as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They might describe them as the unsettled ‘ shells ’ of the dead . |
| 2 | The January price rises [ see p. 38730-31 ] had been higher than expected and painful , but he described them as the logical conclusions of the policies of Soviet Prime Ministers Nikolai Ryzhkov and Valentin Pavlov . |
| 3 | He described himself as the sinful Messiah . |
| 4 | Yesterday , sentencing Ferguson , Sheriff Colin MacKay described him as the prime mover . |
| 5 | By the latter half of the century , the majority of books on child care — which were enjoying a tremendous popularity — strongly recommended breast-feeding and described it as the normal practice ( Fildes 1980 ) . |
| 6 | A vet described it as the worse case of neglect he 'd ever seen . |
| 7 | Joyce , who had experienced more than her fair share of personal sorrow , described it as the saddest day of her life . |
| 8 | It cost £300,000 to build , a vast sum for the time , and Murray 's Handbook for Travellers in India , Burma , and Ceylon , with typical travel-guide hyperbole , described it as the finest railway station in India or any country . |
| 9 | Mansell , who 's got his season off to a better start than anyone in history , described it as the happiest day of his life , but was first to acknowledge all the hard graft back in Didcot that made it possible . |
| 10 | Participants in the plenum described it as the stormiest in Gorbachev 's six years as party leader . |
| 11 | One Bank of England official described it as the biggest scandal since the South Sea Bubble . |
| 12 | We can describe it as the seamless integration of data , text , images and sound within a single digital information environment . |
| 13 | They described themselves as the forgotten people of Chile . |
| 14 | The AT&T programme , called ‘ New Art : New Visions ’ , describes itself as the first corporate effort in the U.S. to help promote recently created work by living artists , especially the work of women and ‘ artists of colour ’ , the term now used to refer to artists of the many racial minority groups vying for exhibition space and for a dwindling pool of public and corporate funds . |
| 15 | For instance , one of the manuscripts containing a copy of only Book 1 , describes it as the first part of the book called " The Mirror of Contemplation by Canon Walter Hilton " ( Lansdowne MS 362 : Prima pars libri qui dicitur Speculum contemplacionis — Walterus hiltoun canonicus while one of the few manuscripts to contain Book 2 alone refers to it as " the secunde part of the reformyng of mannys soule drawyn of maister Watir hiltone hermyte " . |
| 16 | Describing himself as the only bishop born , ordained , and consecrated in Scotland , Ewing nonetheless found a solution to the troubles of the Episcopal Church in its future alignment with , or incorporation into , the Church of England . |
| 17 | A new grouping , the Boere Weerstandsbeweging ( BWB — a splinter group of the AWB formed on June 11 and describing itself as the armed wing of the BP ) , pledged solidarity with the BP in its aim of re-establishing former Boer republics . |
| 18 | Describing herself as the unrepentant collector , Mrs. Vernon Smith showed a variety of garments and artefacts . |
| 19 | The hon. Gentleman pays rightful tribute to small business , describing it as the economic backbone of his constituency . |
| 20 | Mark Williams Co of Northbrook , Illinois bills the 4.0 release of its Coherent Unixalike as the answer to an impecunious Unix-lover 's prayer , describing it as the first inexpensive , easy-to-use , 32-bit clone of Unix and ‘ smaller , faster , and less expensive than any other Unix operating system for the Personal Computer ’ . |
| 21 | The opposition Sandinista National Liberation Front ( FSLN ) withdrew its 39 delegates indefinitely from the 92-member National Assembly on June 18 , protesting over a " reactionary initiative " to remove two 1990 laws on land redistribution and describing it as the first step of a plan to destroy the achievements of the 1979 revolution . |
| 22 | Taken aback by the interruption , Jiang hesitated before continuing with his speech , in which he criticised the United States , describing it as the sole superpower in the post-Cold War era . |
| 23 | One of my boyfriends once described you as the Rossetti maiden . ’ |
| 24 | Experts have described it as the worst case to date of pesticide contamination in Britain . |