Example sentences of "been [verb] as [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two variables have been mooted as possible determinants of success in making plural reference . |
| 2 | A Staff Committee had been mooted as one way of overcoming these difficulties . |
| 3 | The Ministry of Agriculture statement said that the warning had been intended as preventative advice . |
| 4 | If sophisticated strategies such as nominalization have not so far been recognized as viable options in resolving the tension between syntax and communicative function , this does not imply that they are not viable — just that they have been largely overlooked . |
| 5 | Such cases will often have been treated as acute cystitis for a day or two , and may present to the casualty department or emergency room with a bladder so swollen that it mimics a twenty week pregnancy . |
| 6 | In ( A ) the feathers have been treated as sculptural masses , which fold round the form . |
| 7 | Public decisions have been treated as exogenous variables , with the government able to alter tax rates and public expenditure at will . |
| 8 | The provision in respect of the write down of oil and gas assets [ £232 million ] , the net releases of tax provisions [ £78 million ] and the loss on sale of Ultramar 's downstream business [ £302 million ] partly offset by profits on other disposals [ £30 million , net of tax ] have been treated as exceptional items . |
| 9 | In cases where the discharge of a duty imposed by law has been treated as valid consideration , the courts have usually ( but not invariably ) found an act over and above , but consistent with , the duty imposed by law : see Williams v. Williams , ( above , p. 218 ) . |
| 10 | Where the works of antiquity had once been treated as timeless products of a homogeneous whole , ancient civilization was now conceived historically and its divers elements related to their precise period . |
| 11 | Some firms have claimed and been allowed deposit interest as earned income while others have had their claim disallowed and the interest has been treated as unearned investment income . |
| 12 | She suffered from diarrhoea with pain and bloating , which had been diagnosed as irritable bowel syndrome . |
| 13 | His death would have been diagnosed as extreme negligence as although Roger did drop a huge stone on him , he did not mean to kill him . |
| 14 | The role of subcontracting and the increasing rate of investment by large companies in their subsidiaries has already been highlighted as one factor involved in the resilience of the small firm sector . |
| 15 | Mistakenly supposing that their moral beliefs are innately given , people are liable to continue to accept what they have been taught as young children . |
| 16 | There has always been some awareness of this problem and the publication of simple informative magazines such as The Teacher in Uganda , has been regarded as one means of overcoming it . |
| 17 | The Yang brothers had previously been regarded as close allies of Deng . |
| 18 | The argument held that in the past , cities had been regarded as disorganized complexities , and that the objective of planning was to impose rational patterns of simplicity ; Jacobs saw cities as organized complexities , and hoped to keep them lively , diverse and intense . |
| 19 | Iraq and Iran have long been regarded as strategic counterweights . |
| 20 | The ruling Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) was heavily defeated in two by-elections , on Feb. 9 and on March 5 , in what had hitherto been regarded as safe LDP constituencies . |
| 21 | In those countries which have generally been regarded as well-established democracies , manhood suffrage was only achieved in most cases between the end of the nineteenth century and the First World War , while the attainment of universal and equal suffrage came still later ( in Germany in 1919 , Sweden in 1920 , France in 1945 , Britain in 1948 ) while in most of the rest of the world universal suffrage , where it was introduced at all , came only after the end of the Second World War . |
| 22 | In many cases they have done so because their goods , produced outside the Community , have been regarded as unfair competition and have attracted anti-dumping duties designed to make them more expensive and therefore less competitive . |
| 23 | Such lists would have been regarded as underground literature during Sir Keith Joseph 's tenure . |
| 24 | Traditionally , other plants have also been regarded as natural barometers . |
| 25 | For example , the whole of Mayfair and much of the City of London have been designated as Conservation Areas . |
| 26 | Wallace 's line existed because there was one particular strait , between the islands of Bali and Lombok , that was so deep that it could never have been exposed as dry land in recent geological times . |
| 27 | Profits on disposals , which were previously treated as ‘ extraordinary items ’ in our 1991 accounts , have also been included as exceptional items in the restated 1991 profit before tax . |
| 28 | On Dec. 6 Ershad was forced to relinquish power and handed over control of the government to Chief Justice Shehabuddin Ahmed who had been nominated as Acting President by the main opposition alliances . |
| 29 | A CONTROVERSIAL report which says Darlington is in the middle of a severe recession has been attacked as political propaganda by outraged Tories . |
| 30 | Political parties have often been attacked as bad things in the body politic . |