Example sentences of "describe as [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group had earlier threatened to attack French , United States and United Kingdom targets in the city in revenge for what they described as planned Western aggression against Iraq . |
| 2 | Of the 106 authorities who responded and could be used for analysis , seventy-eight were described as using some form of standardised intelligence test and nearly all were using examination procedures to measure attainment in English and arithmetic , though the variety of standard , ‘ tried out ’ and internal tests was wider . |
| 3 | The Old Rectory is County Restaurant of the Year for Gwynedd in this year 's Good Food Guide , and Vaughan 's fare on the no-choice , £22-per-head menu is described as displaying much skill . |
| 4 | A sixteen-year-old boy is described as earning 2s 6d ( 12½p ) and one of thirteen 1s 6d ( 7½p ) , " but not constantly " . |
| 5 | BIE was described as employing 600 agents in tapping the telephones of politicians , the clergy , business people , trade unionists and other " relevant " personalities . |
| 6 | Among Easton 's section police ‘ common sense ’ subsumes all competences , being an indexical category flexible enough to include different sorts of skills , all of which are described as constituting common sense . |
| 7 | Operational records are described as giving day-to-day information such as lists of books issued to each user or listings giving the whereabouts of books not on the shelves . |
| 8 | On this theory , then , when I use the word ‘ I ‘ , I know what ‘ I ’ means by description , and it is described as meaning that bundle of mental states of which my use of the word is one member . |
| 9 | Models were described as comprising theoretical constructs of variables which are interrelated and significant in influencing the outcome of a purchase requirement . |
| 10 | On the other hand , supervisors with poor performance are described as spending more time in ensuring that their staff were busily employed in fulfilling specified stages of work . |
| 11 | On the basis of self-classification , just over six per cent of the labour force in Britain in 1984 could be described as having temporary jobs . |
| 12 | He was described as having slight injuries . |
| 13 | For one term , a class from a special school for pupils described as having moderate learning difficulties worked for one morning each week with a class from a mainstream primary school . |
| 14 | ( Why do so many comments made on children described as having special needs concentrate on their retention of arithmetic facts and algorithms ? ) |