Example sentences of "have been mistaken for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the summary from Chadwick , Ellis and Rutherford in 1930 could equally well be applied to the events of 1989 : ‘ In all the cases reported , the presence of an element has been mistaken for its creation . ’ |
| 2 | He moves onto a review he 's just read of his book Eyes To The Hills , considers in detail the argument it follows and expresses frustration that his rigorous intellectual approach has been mistaken for pretension . |
| 3 | Rain knew Oliver was picturing himself back in the wine bar in Chelsea telling everyone how he 'd been mistaken for a drug dealer and nearly done to death in a Mediterranean backstreet by an underworld rival . |
| 4 | AS the Prince and Princess of Wales sat only a few feet apart in Seoul 's Presidential palace yesterday they could have been mistaken for strangers uncomfortably thrown together . |
| 5 | If her eyes had not been so bright and alert , she could have been mistaken for a corpse . |
| 6 | Her eyes were nearer black than brown and she wore woollen knee stockings ; from a distance she could have been mistaken for a child , of either sex . |
| 7 | It must have been mistaken for a deer . " |
| 8 | Police believe Sweet may have been the victim of a gangland revenge killing , and that he may have been mistaken for someone else . |
| 9 | I was glad he chose to wear it , for otherwise , in his shirt-sleeves and braces walking between us , it could have been mistaken for an arrest or at least a ‘ helping with inquiries ’ and the last thing I wanted was a street riot . |
| 10 | And which of the men might have been mistaken for a woman ? |
| 11 | His tone had changed and now held an inflexion that could almost have been mistaken for tenderness . |
| 12 | ‘ I have heard , ’ said Henry slowly , ‘ that on occasion — by accident , usually — aconite has been known to have been mistaken for horseradish . ’ |
| 13 | It would appear that either the values had been substituted by the supplier ( without warning ) or the capacitors had been mistaken for components having an identical capacitance value but with a much reduced voltage rating . |
| 14 | And of a truth vile Epicurism and Sensuality will make the soul of man so degenerate and blinde , that he will not only be content to slide into brutish immorality , but please himself of this very opinion that he is a real Brute already , an Ape , Satyre , Baboon ; and that the best of men are no better , saving that civilising of them and industrious education has made them appear in a more refined shape , and long inculcate precepts have been mistaken for connate Principles of Honesty and Natural Knowledge , otherwise there be no indespensible grounds of Religion and Virtue , but what has hapned to be taken up by overruling Custome . |
| 15 | And yes , he 's been mistaken for food a few times ! |
| 16 | Real Men with John Ritter its , its really wacky , like he 's this fucking secret agent stuff , I never smoke unless its after six and he just , he 's this John Ritter and his got this really mild of character but he 's been mistaken for an , an agent and he 's , he 's , he 's going |