Example sentences of "as [v-ing] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Provided the gift is at least £600 it will be regarded as having been paid net of basic rate tax . |
| 2 | Some see the conflict as having been crystallised by Proust , who wrote an attack on the critic Sainte-Beuve in 1908 ( though it was not published until 1954 ) . |
| 3 | The desert valley in which the complex is located , known as the Wadi Qelt , is referred to in ancient rabbinical sources as having been ‘ flooded by the blood ’ of the rebels . |
| 4 | COURAGE is the keyword this weekend , even among the nit-pickers who may have noted that the league sponsors ' official directory lists today 's third series of matches as having been played in midweek on 4 October . |
| 5 | He regards this somewhat gruelling routine as having been a vital part of his training . |
| 6 | The press have played a major part in popularizing spectator sport and sustaining interest in it , but it is misleading to think of professional football , for example , as having been created or manufactured by the media . |
| 7 | I look back upon this household as having been — after [ Edward ] — the strongest influence in my life . |
| 8 | We do not , Locke points out , punish a person for what he did when temporarily insane , and we speak of him as having been ‘ not himself ’ or ‘ beside himself ’ . |
| 9 | The connection between the visible and the tangible is conceived by Berkeley as having been set up by God . |
| 10 | This was the theme ingeniously exploited by Poe in his tale , The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar , in which a semblance of life was related as having been preserved in a man mesmerised when at the point of death . |
| 11 | 15.21 — 8 ; Mark 7.24–30 ) , the commissioning to preach of the much-married Samaritan woman ( John 4.7–42 ) ; the acceptance of the ointment of blessing from the sinful woman ( Luke 7.36–50 ) , and the close association with Mary Magdalene , a woman described as having been healed by him from seven demons ( probably a reference to convulsive disease : Luke 8. |
| 12 | The celibate woman was seen as having been freed from the ‘ curse of Eve ’ , to bear children in sorrow and to be under the domination of the male . |
| 13 | In a very small percentage of cases someone was described as having been a Free Presbyterian . |
| 14 | But the perambulating jury dismissed these proceedings as having been made under duress of Hugh Despenser , then Edward I 's Justice of the Forest . |
| 15 | She regarded herself as having been battered by uncontrollable forces , washed up in hostile , foreign waters against jagged rocks . |
| 16 | And the past to which you are so resolutely attached — I suppose you regard it as having been ideal ? |
| 17 | The leader writer depicted the Minister of Education Florence Horsbrugh as having been ‘ hoist with her own petard ’ : if she had hoped that her Committee of Enquiry would recommend financial cuts she had been disappointed , for if anything the proposals made some increase in expenditure likely . |
| 18 | The impact of the migrants has varied from country to country , but two areas which stand out as having been profoundly affected throughout the continent are housing and employment . |
| 19 | He represented her as having been extremely swarthy , and quite emaciated , with a long crane-neck , and a short body , much resembling , in shape , a bass-viol . |
| 20 | In a similar way , as we shall find later , although the widowed and still married give similar pictures of the practical division of roles in their married lives , the widowed tend to interpret these apparently similar marriages differently , remembering themselves as having been closer couples than do those who are still married . |
| 21 | The contacts between the Lemass and O'Neill governments were seen as having been brought about by pressure from Britain , and as a result ‘ O'Neill has got his orders to play down discrimination ’ . |
| 22 | The use of water cannon was criticised as having been unnecessary and for affecting members of the public who had not been involved in the march . |
| 23 | Gide was perceived as having been too closely allied to the psychological novel in the French tradition of the roman d'analyse . |
| 24 | The Employment Appeal Tribunal accepted his argument , albeit reluctantly , saying that , in the experience of the members deciding the case , in practice a redundancy ‘ is accepted as having been shown where it is demonstrated that the actual job which the claimant was carrying out had ceased to exist ’ . |
| 25 | If you end the contract for any reason during the trial period , you will be treated as having been dismissed on the date when your original job ended . |
| 26 | Certainly , you should make it clear by words or conduct that you are exercising your right to treat yourself as having been dismissed . |
| 27 | As a practical measure , if you regard yourself as having been forced to quit , it is prudent to confirm the position to your employer in writing . |
| 28 | He features in Kirby 's Wonderful Museum ( p. 34 , vol. 4 , 1820 edition ) where he is described as having been ‘ tall and very slender ’ and ‘ as he was never seen in company , or speaking with any person , his real name and character remained enveloped in profound mystery , so that he was generally known by no other appellation than the ‘ Walking Rushlight ' ’ ' . |
| 29 | legendary king of Assyria represented by ancient writers as having been an effeminate voluptuary who reigned in the ninth century BC . |
| 30 | The illustrations in the periodicals are inscribed as having been drawn by John Drayton Wyatt , who prepared many plates of Scott 's work for publication and also regularly exhibited drawings of designs by Scott and others at the Royal Academy . |