Example sentences of "have been [adv] [verb] as [v-ing] " in BNC.

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1 This becomes clearer if it is considered from the more general perspective of post-modernism which has been widely characterized as involving a return of history , albeit as a category of representation .
2 This has been widely criticised as failing to provide for the development of a coherent energy policy to take account of environmental and other considerations such as events in the Gulf .
3 The nasal-directed response in young infants has been widely interpreted as reflecting a functional crossed pathway , direct to the NOT , with the temporal-directed response depending on later maturation of an uncrossed pathway through binocular cortical neurons .
4 From within the movement , the publication of the Macdonald Report on the tragic events at Burnage High School has been widely interpreted as signalling the failure of the antiracist project in education .
5 A listed building is one that has been officially recognized as having the right to special protection ( see also What Listing Means , Appendix I , page 154 ) .
6 Spencer Stuart has been variously estimated as holding a market ranking of fourth position , with its annual fee income now exceeding £4m .
7 According to research conducted by Strathclyde educational psychologists , statistical evidence indicated that several dozen Asian and black children may have been unfairly designated as having severe or profound learning difficulties .
8 However , as the sole candidate and with the very high rate of abstention ( only 28.28 per cent of voters turned out ) , his presidency had been widely regarded as lacking in legitimacy .
9 Although the possibility of this resulting in misdiagnosis is obviously present , follow up on this group of patients did not reveal any who had been falsely diagnosed as having malignancy .
10 The move was regarded as significant in Japan because verbal harassment of women was known to be particularly widespread , but previously only actual assaults had been legally construed as comprising acts of harassment .
11 On Exmoor , management agreements have generally worked to stem losses of moor to agricultural development but the annual , index-linked compensation payments have been widely criticised as providing money to prevent a change which is not in the national interest to begin with .
12 The fossil finds in Hadar , Ethiopia , from that time have been variously interpreted as indicating either two or a single species with extreme sexual dimorphism ( size difference between males and females ) .
13 The Iolanthe set provides what is called a ‘ bonus track ’ ( actually five tracks ) of orchestral dance-numbers which have been recently identified as coming from Gilbert and Sullivan 's very first collaboration , Thespis ( Gaiety Theatre , 1871 ) , of which no complete score survives .
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