Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] [adv] [vb pp] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The present leasehold system affects an estimated three million owners and has been widely condemned as unfair and archaic . |
| 2 | It has been widely criticized as inequitable , because all those who are not exempt pay the same rate , regardless of income . |
| 3 | But the Quebec offer has been widely criticised as inadequate . |
| 4 | The Huyghes ' administration of the museum , which had an average of only fifteen to twenty visitors a day , has been widely criticised as dusty , to say the least , the heavy-handedness and the sheer malice of the campaign against them may be due to clan warfare within the Institut de France and may also have political roots Jean-Paul Scarpitta , for example , was a personal friend of Président Mitterrand 's wife Danièle . |
| 5 | The scourer , bought second hand , has been completely reconditioned as new by Douglas Reyburn 's Engineers . |
| 6 | M_F Media Failure — the media item has been previously reported as faulty . |
| 7 | The Tunguska event has been variously estimated as liberating between 4x10 23 ( ref. 14 ) and 4x10 25 erg , ( ref. 12 ) or 10–10 3 megatons ( Mton ) . |
| 8 | Secondly it will remain the case that once a species has been judicially classified as dangerous , then , subject to the doctrine of precedent , there is no room for distinctions based upon the fact that some variants or individual animals within the species may not in fact be at all dangerous : in other words , the law continues to ignore ‘ the world of difference between the wild elephant in the jungle and the trained elephant in the circus … [ which ] is in fact no more dangerous than a cow . ’ |
| 9 | African sculpture has been commonly described as frontal , i.e. the figures are symmetrically disposed about a vertical axis . |