Example sentences of "been [adv] [verb] as [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He replaced a health minister who had been widely regarded as extremely successful in increasing access to health services through the introduction of Medicare . |
| 2 | The target has been widely criticized as too low . |
| 3 | Although proposed by the UN 's International Law Commission , the idea has been widely criticised as legally unsound and practically unworkable . |
| 4 | Rather more realistically , perhaps , the behemoth has been latterly identified as either the hippopotamus or rhinoceros . |
| 5 | Even before the revolution , however , and particularly under Tudor rule , the Privy Council had been largely ignored as too large and public a body , and the practice had grown up of the monarch preferring , instead , to seek advice from a smaller number of individuals whom he regarded as trustworthy and committed to his cause . |