Example sentences of "been [verb] as [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Essentially concerned with a comparative evaluation of inputs and outputs ( see Chapter 1 ) , performance measurement has long been recognized as important within Whitehall . |
| 2 | Test results show that some products which have been publicised as Alar-free by retailers and manufacturers were still found to contain Alar . |
| 3 | In this context , the material before the board indicated — ( 1 ) that investors were persuaded by company representatives employed by the Winchester Group to cancel their existing policies and to ‘ switch ’ to Norwich Union without their best interests and any disadvantages attendant upon so doing necessarily being considered ; ( 2 ) that other undesirable selling practices — for instance ‘ overselling ’ whereby investors are persuaded to take out a range of policies which they may not be able to afford in the long term — have been employed by company representatives selling on behalf of the Winchester Group ; ( 3 ) that the fact find forms completed by the Winchester Group for forwarding to Norwich Union were inadequate for the purposes of ensuring that products were only sold to investors on a ‘ best advice ’ basis ; ( 4 ) that the connections between Mr. Tee and Mr. Kissane ( a former director of the Winchester Group now awaiting trial on charges of theft of client moneys ) and also between the Winchester Group and Mr. Randhir Singh were such as to call into question the extent to which the controllers , directors and senior managers of the Winchester Group could be regarded as being of good character and competent or otherwise suitable to manage the marketing of investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and also whether the Winchester Group could be safely regarded as a fit and proper person for the purposes of enjoying appointed representative status ; ( 5 ) that policies had been sold by eight persons engaged by the Winchester Group who had not been appointed as company representatives of Norwich Union or in any other way authorised to sell investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and that other individuals who had been appointed as company representatives had not been registered as such with Lautro ; ( 6 ) that certain company representatives engaged by the Winchester Group appeared to be channelling client moneys through their own personal bank accounts . |
| 4 | ‘ In the case of SO&sub2 ; and NOx emissions from combustion processes , ’ said the Department , ‘ prevention , or partial abatement , has hitherto been regarded as impractical on grounds of cost , and operators are therefore required to render ground-level concentrations of the emissions harmless by dispersal from high stacks and dilution in the air . ’ |
| 5 | This extraordinary process of programmed cell death has long been regarded as essential to development , the process of growth from spherical egg to an entire human being . |
| 6 | The American critics were usually poets themselves ; Leavis made no attempt to be a creative writer — though he has been claimed as such by Ian Robinson — but his own criticism emerged from the Cambridge milieu of the twenties , where Eliot was a dominant influence . |
| 7 | Vivienne Hart has pointed out how many actions , of which she takes populism as her example , which have been presented as subversive of government , are in fact defensive of the constitution in general against the constitutionally subversive , or supposed constitutionally subversive actions of particular governments and politicians . |
| 8 | Not only was the boy outnumbered in this predominantly female household — he had the additional problem of having to contend with a rather cumbersome and unusual first Christian name : Marwood James Henry Titford had presumably been named as such by way of homage to the vicar of Curry Rivel , the Rev. Charles Marwood Speke Mules . |
| 9 | Groundbaiting has always been seen as vital for bream . |
| 10 | Certainly the primary reason why ideas about chaos have been seen as important for fluid dynamics is their potential relevance to turbulence . |
| 11 | Amenorrhoea with anovulation has long been recognised as invariable in anorexia nervosa ( decreased libido and low testosterone are the equivalent in the male ) . |
| 12 | St Gallen 's opera has always been recognised as one of Switzerland 's best , and performs in the imposing Stadttheater in the Museumstrasse . |
| 13 | In the past , so-called biodegradable plastics have been viewed as fraudulent by environmentalists , as they have only broken down into smaller pieces . |
| 14 | The criminal acts themselves contribute nothing to this process since they do not exist as criminal acts unless they have been defined as such by official defining and sanctioning agencies ( a point made much of by interactionist writers , including Erikson ) . |
| 15 | In determining planning appeals for residential development , the secretary of state will take into account whether , in the context of the advice of this circular , sufficient housebuilding land has been identified as available for development in the area of the district . |
| 16 | The body of a man shot , trussed and dumped in a reservoir near Halifax , West Yorkshire , has been identified as that of Laurence Conrad Winstanley , 24 , who owned a motor repair business in Oldham , Greater Manchester . |
| 17 | N. B. the term irrationality has been criticised as misleading per Lord Donaldson M.R. in R. v. Devon C.C. ex p . |
| 18 | The doctrine itself , as laid down by Sir Edward Coke , may have been criticised as questionable in principle by some persons whose opinions are entitled to respect , but it has never been judicially overruled ; on the contrary I think it has always , since the sixteenth century , been accepted as law . |
| 19 | It is assumed that provisional agreement has been reached between prospective partners , all of whom are fully qualified solicitors ; that the firm name has been chosen and premises identified ; that certificates and licences have been obtained as necessary in relation to specialist aspects of the work of the practice and registration obtained for VAT ; that the Solicitors ' Indemnity Fund has been informed of the existence of the new practice ; and generally that there is no legal or professional obstacle to accepting instructions from clients . |
| 20 | Here two separate effects may be observed , firstly a distinctiveness effect where a single arousing item in a series is likely to be well remembered simply because it is different from the other items , and secondly an effect which has been described as similar to Easterbrook 's hypothesis in general task performance . |
| 21 | Inhaling it can cause immediate death ; the effect has been described as comparable in speed with an acute cerebral haemorrhage or coronary thrombosis . |
| 22 | Narrower strips , perhaps 50 m wide have been suggested as appropriate in Amazonia , such strips being gardened for some years and replanted with trees as well ; seed and mycorrhizae sources are close by . |