Example sentences of "[is] [adv] described " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will introduce legislation designed to give consumers confidence that what they purchase is properly described — and that adequate compensation is offered where these requirements are not met . |
| 2 | His report has galvanised a powerful alliance of interests behind what is loosely described as ‘ the Somerset House Group ’ . |
| 3 | What is loosely described as ‘ the elderly population ’ covers an age range from 65 to 100+ years and is not the homogeneous social group that this unitary term would indicate . |
| 4 | The 1693 quarto is loosely described as the ‘ second edition ’ , but strictly speaking it is a reissue of Q1692 : sheets remaining from the original print-run , spruced up for sale after a decent interval . |
| 5 | In addition , since the function M is essentially determined up to a removable constant for any V and W by equations ( 6.22b , c ) , the initial data is effectively described by specifying only the metric functions V and W on the boundaries and . |
| 6 | Called the ‘ great light ’ in the Doctrine of Vibration , it is figuratively described as the ‘ sun of individual consciousness , bathing the entire Universe in its radiance . |
| 7 | Alderson is revealingly described : ‘ poor old John Alderson [ has ] gone careering off the rails , [ and is ] now shacked up with the liberal party … an intellectual liberal reformer with radical ideas [ whose ] philosophical mumbo jumbo , often incomprehensible , and not very original , did nothing to impress ’ . |
| 8 | is rightly described as a kick in the teeth . |
| 9 | But a great deal of the poems ' subject matter is justly described by Philip Larkin [ q.v. ] in a review of the Collected Poems : ‘ It was , variously , neurosis , insanity , disease , death , horror , terror . ’ |
| 10 | Nor is it appropriate to exclude all that is so described . |
| 11 | First we may consider the phrase : ( 25 ) acrobatic performance In the light of the discussion above we may remark that this can be understood in either of two ways : first , as covering any performance which is so described because it is linked with the idea of an acrobat in the execution of his or her professional duties ; this would include expertise in juggling , tightrope walking , standing on one 's hands , and so on , even if they are performed by an amateur lacking any natural talent for the task ; second , ( 25 ) may be used to designate any performance which is acrobatic in itself , even if not part of the normal repertoire of acrobats , for instance , grabbing hold of a branch growing out from a cliff just after falling from the top . |
| 12 | It is better described as a full day 's expedition , and those who undertake it need to be well-provisioned and should allow ample time to see the many natural attractions along the way . |
| 13 | To the extent , for example , that it exists in local government in the United Kingdom ( and to that extent , it is better described in terms of ‘ caucus ’ rather than ‘ cabinet ’ ) it is a very recent historical phenomenon indeed . |
| 14 | Yet the relationship between the two statements is better described as recursive , rather than hierarchical . |
| 15 | At her death , Isabel is elsewhere described as Peche 's wife and the nature of her liaison with Brampton is thus uncertain . |
| 16 | First , there is the conversion of a sol ( a colloidal solution ) to a gel ( or an infinitely connected network of polymer chains ) , which is approximately described as formally similar to a critical phenomenon , and for which the formalism of scaling theories is applicable and secondly , the conversion of the gel to a much less compliant , rigid glass , which is governed by diffusion processes . |
| 17 | She 's already described how she was able to think about wiping off fingerprints shortly after his death ; that denotes a cool customer who does n't often lose control . |
| 18 | The theoretical position underlying these interpretations is broadly described as ‘ monetarism ’ , a doctrine which owes a great deal to two American economists , Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman . |
| 19 | The process is satirically described by Nashe in the Anatomie of Martin Marprelate : ‘ Having bestowed his bowels in a ditch … and filled his hungry belly … with coal dust , for spice they could not bestow ( his carrion being not worth it ) and sawdust they could have none ; they wrapped him in a blanket … for that all others are lapped in sheets . ’ |
| 20 | It 's best described as ‘ an adventure show with a difference ’ — an exciting test of mental and physical agility for those who take part , recorded on the largest set ever constructed for a TV programme . |
| 21 | I think it 's best described as wet and warm . |
| 22 | What is proposed is generally described as the ‘ dematerialisation ’ of shares . |
| 23 | This relationship is generally described as the ‘ quantity theory of money ’ . |
| 24 | It is generally described as lax , that is , not articulated with much energy . |
| 25 | The provincial Assembly in Kosovo on May 23 refused the resignation of Jusuf Zejnulahu , the President of the Kosovo Executive Council [ see p. 37382 , where he is incorrectly described as Chairman of the provincial Assembly ] , and of nine other ethnic-Albanian members of his government . |
| 26 | Manzù 's girl is thus described by Trier first as an artefact , and then as a person ; his terms of reference are the characteristics of two other sculptors . |
| 27 | In the General Prologue the Reeve is thus described : and : and the Host responds to the serious reflections of the Reeve 's Prologue accordingly : But the Host too has appropriated a character , as judge and ruler of the tale-telling game , that takes him beyond the predictable attributes of his normal station in life : while in the fiction of the Tales , the Miller has just been attributed with the strengths of the court poet Chaucer as a narrator . |
| 28 | The sado-sexual crime is not described , yet everything in the text points to Mathias as the perpetrator . |
| 29 | If by any chance , you have still not encountered the fax machine , then its basic function is easily described : the fax transceiver plugs into a standard telephone socket , scans the document fed into it and then transmits the result electronically to a similar machine at the other end of the line where a facsimile document is printed out . |
| 30 | His plight is movingly described without recourse to glorification or undue sympathy . |