Example sentences of "which [pers pn] described [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I therefore set about devising a better mathematical treatment , which I described at an informal seminar in Oxford at the end of November 1973 . |
| 2 | Eleanor Rathbone identified the power that husbands derived from their breadwinner status as the ‘ Turk Complex ’ which she described in a biting passage : |
| 3 | The event was marred , however , by the refusal of the Young Socialists to march behind the Irish tricolour , which they described as a ‘ bourgeois flag ’ . |
| 4 | Dr Vincent and Dr Jones delivered the message to Downing Street after Mrs Thatcher refused to see a delegation from the church , a decision which they described as an ‘ affront ’ . |
| 5 | The next day , Monday 23 June , Peters left for America leaving Eliot an unhappily married London bank clerk on the fringes of a circle which he described as a ‘ Bloomsburial ’ . |
| 6 | For his part , he seems to have enjoyed Cornwall , which he described as a walker 's paradise and ‘ … romantic to a degree ’ , though he confessed he would not like to live in it . |
| 7 | I understand the feeling within his party that has given rise to some of the security recommendations which he conferred on my hon. Friend the Minister of State last week , and which he described as a root-and-branch policy . |
| 8 | In an interview in the Middle East Economic Digest ( MEED ) of April 29 , the Secretary-General of the GCC , Abdullah Yacoub Bishara ( Kuwait ) , had stressed the GCC 's emerging alliance with Egypt and Syria which he described as a new " six-plus-two grouping " . |
| 9 | Most recently he had also refused to attend the UNCED summit , which he described as a " funeral wake " , arguing that the failure to agree on a carbon tax " deluded expectations and eluded responsibility " [ see p. 38947 ] . |
| 10 | He also on July 24 made remarks criticizing members of the UN Security Council for giving what he maintained was undue priority to the situation in Yugoslavia , which he described as a " war of the rich " . |
| 11 | Mr McConnell revelled in the SNP 's recent difficulties which he described as a ‘ gift ’ for Labour . |
| 12 | There 's an EMI Tchaikovsky Fourth Symphony which he described as an incomparably fluid act of musical improvisation ; the recording of Le Sacre which Stravinsky tried to pillory and which Gould thought the most imaginative and , literally , ‘ inspiring ’ recording to date ; and one of your recordings of Strauss 's Metamorphosen . |
| 13 | Mr Patrick O'Hara , spokesperson for the Ecological Study Group , claimed that the marsh land , which he described as an important area for wildlife containing 31 species of waders and wildfowl including some rare species , was zoned for industry in the council 's draft development plan . |
| 14 | He was also critical of the ANC 's mass action campaign which he described as an obstacle to negotiations . |
| 15 | Norman Lamont welcomed the plans , which he described as an important step forward . |
| 16 | ( Berkeley was familiar with perspective machines , one of which he described in a later work . ) |
| 17 | Univel acknowledged its cuts would impact the Santa Cruz Operation , which it described as a ‘ partner , ’ but explained that its focus was on Microsoft . |
| 18 | The Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace ( CCJP ) issued a statement in Harare on March 27 accusing ZANU-PF of responsibility for the near-fatal shooting incident which , allegedly , occurred in the presence of uniformed police , and which it described as a " gross misuse of state machinery for intimidation purposes " . |
| 19 | However , on Aug. 3 SPK , the official SOC news agency , issued a categorical rejection of the allegations which it described as a " treacherous attempt to divert public opinion from reality in Cambodia " . |
| 20 | The French Communist Party ( PCF ) , whose votes would have been needed for its success , boycotted the session ; it had declared that while it did not support the government , it would not vote for the motion , which it described as a " manoeuvre " . |
| 21 | Friends of the Earth reacted strongly to the lack of firm provisions for forest protection in the Statement , which it described as a " chainsaw charter " . |