Example sentences of "have [adv] be [verb] as " in BNC.

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1 The ownership of newspapers has rarely been seen as either an easy or a sure way of acquiring fortunes .
2 Returning to the record established at the head of this chapter , the Modular Course has obviously been transformed as it has grown .
3 WP Has much been written as yet about that period ?
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 The Guide has long been seen as CAMRA 's flagship , mixing solid campaigning points with entertaining features , the latest information from the brewing world and Britain 's best pub guide .
6 Harsnett 's text has long been seen as one of the established sources for Lear , but in Greenblatt 's analysis a more challenging question is posed : which way was the borrowing ?
7 Mathematics , more than almost any other subject on the school curriculum , has long been perceived as useful ( and relevant ? ) by pupils themselves , their parents , their teachers , industrialists and Government .
8 The liber singularis of Paul from which this text is excerpted has long been suspected as being of post-classical origin .
9 Indeed , the prehistoric forest of the Vallee de Marai on Praslin has long been suspected as being the original Garden of Eden , and the granite substance of the isles proves that India was once attached to the African mainland .
10 There are many advantages to having a care manager , ‘ someone in charge out there ’ , and this has long been recognized as essential , although in the past this recognition has not been focused on as closely as under the current care management system .
11 Essentially concerned with a comparative evaluation of inputs and outputs ( see Chapter 1 ) , performance measurement has long been recognized as important within Whitehall .
12 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 .
13 The city , located in a desert basin with little rainfall , has long been regarded as being among the most wasteful of water resources in the Western United States .
14 After more than a hundred years of the recognition of industrial picketing as a democratic mechanism the official Code of Practice issued by the Department of Employment says : ‘ There is no legal ‘ right to picket ’ as such but peaceful picketing has long been recognised as lawful . ’
15 ‘ Establishment ’ today means very little outside the sphere of the purely formal and ceremonial and the devotion of the time of Parliament to the tedious and time-consuming task of regulating the affairs of the Church of England has long been recognised as anachronistic .
16 The description ‘ schizotypal ’ is really just a modern equivalent of the older one , ‘ schizoid ’ , which has long been recognised as having an affinity with schizophrenia .
17 Amenorrhoea with anovulation has long been recognised as invariable in anorexia nervosa ( decreased libido and low testosterone are the equivalent in the male ) .
18 A Belgian singer , René Jacobs , has long been admired as one of the most emotionally expressive of counter-tenors , but his exuberance is more in the line of Maria Callas than of Ethel Merman .
19 The general absence of kilns has normally been accepted as negative evidence for the use of bonfires for firing pottery during the period .
20 Often , people who hesitate to come into the world of education — perhaps because English is not their first language , because education has not been highlighted as important in their households or because they missed an opportunity earlier in life — can come into adult education , not necessarily taking vocational courses in the first instance , but going on to take such courses , which provide them with the training and self-assurance they need .
21 Although this formulation has been referred to in subsequent cases it has not been adopted as laying down an all embracing test .
22 The outcome of these cases is that the Chinese wall has not been seen as providing satisfactory protection for the interests of the former client and , despite the existence of a Chinese wall , the courts have required the law firms not to act on behalf of the new client .
23 The mosaic from Roxby , Lincs. , ( Fowler 1818 , no. 3 ) , has not been included as it shows more certain affinities with pavements in southern Lincolnshire and the area around Water Newton , Cambs. , ( Smith 1969 , 108 ) .
24 He has not been informed as to terms of any such evidence by officials of Orkney Islands Council 's Social Work Department …
25 After five years he held a Council first at Pavia then at Siena , but it was so poorly attended it has not been counted as ecumenical .
26 If , on the other hand the conscience demands the rejection of a proposed action which has been incorporated into the Created God , and which has not been classified as evil , and is therefore acceptable behaviour , then that is the effect of a guilt complex .
27 Although this creature has not been reported as actually killing any people , its appearance is a frightening one with eyewitnesses testifying to its huge head and swelling shoulders , and the fearsome groans it emits .
28 The House of Commons is elected from over 600 constituencies ( an exact number has not been quoted as regular constituency boundary changes alter it ) , each of which returns the person with a simple majority of votes at each election .
29 Something has already been said as to the assignment of ordinary debts and ‘ choses in action' ; and the law relating to negotiable instruments — bills of exchange , cheques , and promissory notes — will be dealt with in the next chapter .
30 The focus of such assessment has already been noted as that of current , rather than past or future , level of functioning .
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