Example sentences of "[conj] describe as " in BNC.
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| 1 | COTTON PAPER IS SOMETIMES STILL CALLED OR DESCRIBED AS RAG PAPER . |
| 2 | Although described as core troops , you might consider including smaller units of Boar Boyz in a supporting role . |
| 3 | He reveals the ambivalent attitudes at the heart of the Age Concern movement , and describes as a ‘ cop out ’ the proposal to raise the age limit of office from 65 to 70 . |
| 4 | Elsewhere , Thompson relates Marxist thinking to what he called industrial syndicalism and describes as one of the great themes of Owenism . |
| 5 | Raymond Williams in his discussion of country house poems , specifically those of Jonson and Carew , observes a tendency to obscure labour , and to describe as natural bounty that which is obtained by work . |
| 6 | This ‘ breach ’ of medical confidentiality was later strongly condemned by Health Minister , Kenneth Clarke , and described as a ‘ disgrace ’ by Opposition health spokesperson , Gwyneth Dunwoody , who wanted disciplinary action against the person concerned . |
| 7 | Heavy fatty deposits can be broken up by the use of caustic cleaners sometimes specially formulated and described as drain cleaners . |
| 8 | They therefore form themselves into various groups in which they identify themselves as ‘ we ’ , as distinct from those who are outside and described as ‘ they ’ . |
| 9 | Separate points values have also been included for the various Engineers School weapons carried by the War Wagon crew and described as part of the War Wagon rules . |
| 10 | A Vauxhall Viva resprayed in unspeakable tangerine to conceal a multitude of rusty sins and described as ‘ a sound and reliable workhorse ’ looked to his eye more like a duck very near death 's door . |
| 11 | A balloon , though punctured , is nevertheless accurately identified and described as a ‘ balloon . ’ |
| 12 | Fouard Ali Salah , 34 , from Tunisia and described as a pro-Iranian Hezbollah militant , was ordered to serve a life sentence of at least 18 years without parole for masterminding the campaign . |
| 13 | A tenancy that is something else — that is to say , either periodic or for a term certain but described as a tenancy at will — will inevitably be caught ( ibid per Scarman LJ at 217 ) . |
| 14 | The Davenports ’ second cellar in Mary Barton , though described as a ‘ back apartment ’ , and making a difference in the rent of threepence , is fit for neither with its floor of evil-smelling mud and its grating through which drop ‘ the moisture from pigsties , and worse abominations ’ . |
| 15 | Though described as a gentleman , and obviously well educated , his birth , parentage , and schooling all remain obscure . |