Example sentences of "to have [been] [vb pp] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was fortunate to have been accepted as a member of the new customs syndicate in 1667 before Clarendon 's fall deprived him of his patron ; but the lease was cancelled four years later , when the farmers sought guarantees against the heavy defalcations to be expected in the imminent Dutch war . |
| 2 | For Jesus to have been accepted as the Messiah , he must necessarily have been prepared to wield the liberator 's sword . |
| 3 | The infant had defects that were alleged to have been caused as a result of injuries , when in the womb , sustained when an accident occurred to her mother as a consequence of the negligence of a railway company . |
| 4 | A tenth of their 338-page book , a best-seller in the US and Germany with Japan showing even greater interest , is devoted to The 1990s : Decade of Women in Leadership Their views are graphic : ‘ To be a leader in business today , it is no longer an advantage to have been socialised as a male . |
| 5 | Unemployment remained high by historic standards ( a peak of 3.2 million being reached in April 1985 ) ; but somehow it appeared to have been defused as a major political issue during the eighties , partly through redundancy payments . |
| 6 | Plans for major development projects , including the giant Hab River power complex near Karachi , were reported in early February to have been disrupted as a result of the November 1991 ruling by the Federal Islamic Court banning bank interest [ see pp. 38683-84 ] . |
| 7 | The texts seem to have been composed as a result of work in and on language . |
| 8 | Chapter 2 I , which seems to have been composed as an afterthought to the main body of the Gospel with its climax in 20:31 , indicates that there was a tradition doing the rounds in Christian circles to the effect that John would not die : he would be there until the Second Coming of Christ . |
| 9 | It is said to have been built as a smock mill but later , after a period as a dwelling house , changed to a tower mill and made higher . |
| 10 | He would have been quite happy to have been employed as a production manager an or as an assistant director of which he was first class but the work did not come his way . |
| 11 | Its height suggests that it was unlikely to have been intended as a garden sculpture . |
| 12 | The offensive appeared , initially , to have been intended as a tactical show of strength designed to secure a better bargaining position in peace talks , due to resume on July 15 but " indefinitely suspended " by the government [ see p. 38283 ] . |
| 13 | William Latimer , who became Chamberlain in 1371 , was a figure of rather more political consequence and seems to have been regarded as the leader of the group around the king . |
| 14 | Some are hazardous : for example , nitrates and radon , which is said to have been regarded as an invigorating tonic in some Italian mineral water . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , trade cards seem to have been regarded as an important form of advertising and during the eighteenth century a number of well-known artists were commissioned to design such items . |
| 16 | While a beneficiary of Aethelwealh 's patronage , however , Wilfrid is said to have been sought as a spiritual father by Caedwalla ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 42 ) . |
| 17 | Since those cases were decided there have been many scientific advances and it would seem that chances of establishing whether or not there are causal relationships between the act alleged to be negligent and the damage alleged to have been suffered as a consequence are better now than formerly . |
| 18 | Damages in libel cases are intended generally to compensate the plaintiff for loss of face , and specifically for any loss of work or earnings which can be proved to have been suffered as a result of the libel . |
| 19 | In the case of psychoanalytic theory , there needs to be an understanding , first , of an undistorted version of the theory as stated by Freud , and then various changes in the theory can be seen as either having been made to attain greater rational consistency , or to incorporate new ‘ findings ’ which refute some of the previous assumptions , or to have been made as a result of social pressures on theory-makers eager to find a role for their theories in the society . |
| 20 | This ill-omened project appears to have been undertaken as a sort of consolation to the Tanganyika Masai after they suffered a series of land losses , to European settlers and to other tribes , in the late 1940s , when the Tanganyika government came under pressure to contribute to world food production . |
| 21 | Among a wide circle of friends and correspondents , Cayley seems to have been recognized as a generous and modest man of great personal charm . |
| 22 | Since that time , more than 20,000 babies are thought to have been born as a result of this technique . |
| 23 | The loch also seems to have been used as a dumping place for unwanted kitchen utensils . |
| 24 | Police recovered a black Opel car , believed to have been used as a getaway car in the attack . |
| 25 | It 's incorrectly built and it also appears to have been used as an excuse for fly tipping , and industrial fly tipping at that . |
| 26 | Wilmington , also part of the Beaufort lands , seems to have been included as a makeweight . |
| 27 | Wilmington , also part of the Beaufort lands , seems to have been included as a makeweight . |
| 28 | He also refilled air-bottles for scuba divers , ran sports-fishing excursions and , despite his slow left knee , was a good enough tennis player to have been hired as a coach at some of the Lucaya hotels , though the Maggot 's career as a tennis coach had been somewhat jeopardised by his insistence on helping only the prettier guests to improve their game . |
| 29 | True , some plates seem to have been designed as a reminder , sometimes polite , sometimes far from it , that the volume has strayed from its proper home . |
| 30 | Five people including some from North Wales died in the blaze , said to have been started as a prank in Palmeira Drive , in April last year . |