Example sentences of "described [pron] as the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joyce , who had experienced more than her fair share of personal sorrow , described it as the saddest day of her life . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Participants in the plenum described it as the stormiest in Gorbachev 's six years as party leader . |
| 5 | One Bank of England official described it as the biggest scandal since the South Sea Bubble . |