Example sentences of "been [verb] as [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women who have no objection to abortion in principle feel that it is entirely within their right to abort babies who have been diagnosed as being mentally handicapped ; certainly at present there are few legal restraints , but there are practical as well as moral problems involved . |
| 2 | Gastrectomy is not devoid of complications , mortality has been reported as being as high as 16% and there is a high incidence of short and long term complications after surgery . |
| 3 | She must have been noticed as being very different from the local ladies who were either young girls dressed tidily but poorly , or older women in black . |
| 4 | Being ostensibly part of the Conservative Government 's policy of controlling the internal running of trade unions , her role has inevitably been seen as being both political and provocative . |
| 5 | Their procedures have not been seen as being as open and impartial as those of HMI . |
| 6 | Freud 's psychoanalytic theory has been understood as being primarily about the individual , both by many of those most sympathetic to his work and by many who are hostile to it . |
| 7 | For example , management training , which figured prominently as a topic for which there is most need of external course provision has been noted as being very suitable for courses run by own local authority central training units : ‘ Training courses designed to teach managerial techniques can be aimed at candidates from all kinds of professions and different departments , and it will be extremely beneficial for library staff to mix with colleagues from other departments and disciplines . ‘ |
| 8 | The requirement of a compulsory bid has been criticised as being too prescriptive in nature . |
| 9 | Certain of the Kings Quest series have been criticised as being too ‘ twee ’ and sugary — KQ VI is basically a ‘ fairy tale ’ but the storyline is much firmer than previous titles and avoids making the teeth grind and the stomach curdle ! |
| 10 | These people have been described as being typically highly active , personified in individuals such as the successful business man or the British Prime Minister , Margaret Thatcher . |
| 11 | ‘ would permit the continued use of the design approaches using ‘ shared space ’ which have been hailed as being highly successful in environmental and aesthetic terms ; the short sightlines which form a natural part of the ‘ intimate spaces ’ created in these schemes would cease at really low speeds to be short compared with stopping distances , and hence would pose little threat . ’ |