Example sentences of "has be [adv] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is one of the easiest measures for the government to control , but it has been frequently criticized as being of little use as an indicator of spending power in the economy since it excludes the most important component of money supply , namely bank deposits , and includes money in banks ' tills which is the money that banks need to keep in their tills as a ‘ float ’ . |
| 2 | The present leasehold system affects an estimated three million owners and has been widely condemned as unfair and archaic . |
| 3 | It has been widely criticized as inequitable , because all those who are not exempt pay the same rate , regardless of income . |
| 4 | The target has been widely criticized as too low . |
| 5 | This becomes clearer if it is considered from the more general perspective of post-modernism which has been widely characterized as involving a return of history , albeit as a category of representation . |
| 6 | The growth of executive power at the expense of legislative authority has been widely recognized as another feature of capitalism affecting bureaucracy , especially as capitalism moves through its monopoly phase , or as the class struggle intensifies and threatens the process of capital accumulattion . |
| 7 | The Huyghes ' administration of the museum , which had an average of only fifteen to twenty visitors a day , has been widely criticised as dusty , to say the least , the heavy-handedness and the sheer malice of the campaign against them may be due to clan warfare within the Institut de France and may also have political roots Jean-Paul Scarpitta , for example , was a personal friend of Président Mitterrand 's wife Danièle . |
| 8 | But the Quebec offer has been widely criticised as inadequate . |
| 9 | This has been widely criticised as failing to provide for the development of a coherent energy policy to take account of environmental and other considerations such as events in the Gulf . |
| 10 | Although proposed by the UN 's International Law Commission , the idea has been widely criticised as legally unsound and practically unworkable . |
| 11 | The nasal-directed response in young infants has been widely interpreted as reflecting a functional crossed pathway , direct to the NOT , with the temporal-directed response depending on later maturation of an uncrossed pathway through binocular cortical neurons . |
| 12 | From within the movement , the publication of the Macdonald Report on the tragic events at Burnage High School has been widely interpreted as signalling the failure of the antiracist project in education . |
| 13 | The purpose of his investigation has been widely interpreted as being partly to ‘ get to the truth ’ and partly to assuage public opinion . |
| 14 | The scourer , bought second hand , has been completely reconditioned as new by Douglas Reyburn 's Engineers . |
| 15 | The hospital 's heating system has been extensively damaged as have the telephones , lifts and X-ray equipment . |
| 16 | Wright will have a key role in Vilnius tomorrow as Northern Ireland begin what has been disparagingly described as the ‘ battle of the also-Manager Billy Bingham is unlikely to make many changes from the team which lost 3–1 in Spain last month ; Iain Dowie should come in to replace the injured Philip Gray . |
| 17 | It is hard to see how some of this work could practicably have been carried out without computer aid ; for example , the input to the analysis of on versus tu/vous realizations of the indefinite personal pronoun was ‘ 4,300 tokens , each one of which has been carefully studied as to its syntactic and discursive role … ’ |
| 18 | M_F Media Failure — the media item has been previously reported as faulty . |
| 19 | Rather more realistically , perhaps , the behemoth has been latterly identified as either the hippopotamus or rhinoceros . |
| 20 | If FMS is installed on your system ( ie. it was already installed , or it has been successfully installed as described in Section 1.4 ) then these parameters do not require to be modified . |
| 21 | A listed building is one that has been officially recognized as having the right to special protection ( see also What Listing Means , Appendix I , page 154 ) . |
| 22 | For the point is this : not that myth refers us back to some original event which has been fancifully transcribed as it passed through the collective memory ; but that it refers us forward to something that will happen , that must happen . |
| 23 | Spencer Stuart has been variously estimated as holding a market ranking of fourth position , with its annual fee income now exceeding £4m . |
| 24 | The Tunguska event has been variously estimated as liberating between 4x10 23 ( ref. 14 ) and 4x10 25 erg , ( ref. 12 ) or 10–10 3 megatons ( Mton ) . |
| 25 | Balance is better achieved by a mixture — often sold as ‘ blood , bone and fish ’ — although in recent years the fish content has been considerably reduced as it is used more and more in animal and pet foodstuffs . |
| 26 | That decision has been roundly criticised as ‘ extraordinary ’ by Professor Glanville Williams in his Joint Obligations , p. 117 , para. 55 . |
| 27 | Erm , so volume has been gradually growing as the year progresses and erm , and more so in the last erm , the last say six weeks of the er , of the half year . |
| 28 | As new dictionaries become available , such valuable data should be exploited , and for this reason the lexicon has been continually updated as the project has progressed . |
| 29 | Secondly it will remain the case that once a species has been judicially classified as dangerous , then , subject to the doctrine of precedent , there is no room for distinctions based upon the fact that some variants or individual animals within the species may not in fact be at all dangerous : in other words , the law continues to ignore ‘ the world of difference between the wild elephant in the jungle and the trained elephant in the circus … [ which ] is in fact no more dangerous than a cow . ’ |
| 30 | This has been graphically described as ‘ switching on the autopilot ’ ( Drasdo , 1979 ) . |