Example sentences of "[verb] have been [verb] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of the museums consulted has been approached as a possible venue for any of the ‘ WONDERS ’ shows . |
| 2 | The out of court settlement made two days before the trial was to be heard has been hailed as a legal milestone by the Spinal Injuries Association . |
| 3 | Jim Harris , new president and CEO of the Santa Cruz Operation , was one of the very earliest in the door at Intel Corp , where he made his fortune : since 1988 , aside from his position on SCO 's board , he has has been occupied as a farmer in Minnesota . |
| 4 | The Rights of Way Act 1932 provides that where a way over land had been actually enjoyed by the public as of right and without interruption for a full period of 20 years , the way shall be deemed to have been dedicated as a highway , unless there is sufficient evidence that there was no intention during the 20-year period to dedicate it . |
| 5 | When that need arose there is clear enough indication of the availability of collective response from a continuing association which does not always need to have been preserved as a formal organisation . |
| 6 | Police recovered a black Opel car , believed to have been used as a getaway car in the attack . |
| 7 | It is said to have been built as a smock mill but later , after a period as a dwelling house , changed to a tower mill and made higher . |
| 8 | While a beneficiary of Aethelwealh 's patronage , however , Wilfrid is said to have been sought as a spiritual father by Caedwalla ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 42 ) . |
| 9 | Particularly unimpressed was Nell McCafferty who thought it a bad choice as an opening movie which she assumed had been selected as a ‘ keynote ’ film for the festival . |
| 10 | The infant had defects that were alleged to have been caused as a result of injuries , when in the womb , sustained when an accident occurred to her mother as a consequence of the negligence of a railway company . |
| 11 | Since that time , more than 20,000 babies are thought to have been born as a result of this technique . |
| 12 | The texts seem to have been composed as a result of work in and on language . |
| 13 | True , some plates seem to have been designed as a reminder , sometimes polite , sometimes far from it , that the volume has strayed from its proper home . |
| 14 | If a shorter interval , say two or three years , during which no birth occurred had been chosen as a criterium for determining behavioural infecundity , the proportion infecund , of course , would be much higher . |
| 15 | Since those cases were decided there have been many scientific advances and it would seem that chances of establishing whether or not there are causal relationships between the act alleged to be negligent and the damage alleged to have been suffered as a consequence are better now than formerly . |
| 16 | Similarly , I , as an anthropologist , am attempting to draw attention to another level at which Greenfield is not being explicit : namely , the fact that what schooled children are doing has been learnt as a convention within a school system . |
| 17 | The struggle to decipher has been presented as a good thing in itself , though construing sentences is not the same thing as achieving intellectual understanding . |
| 18 | This ill-omened project appears to have been undertaken as a sort of consolation to the Tanganyika Masai after they suffered a series of land losses , to European settlers and to other tribes , in the late 1940s , when the Tanganyika government came under pressure to contribute to world food production . |
| 19 | Among a wide circle of friends and correspondents , Cayley seems to have been recognized as a generous and modest man of great personal charm . |
| 20 | Wilmington , also part of the Beaufort lands , seems to have been included as a makeweight . |
| 21 | Wilmington , also part of the Beaufort lands , seems to have been included as a makeweight . |
| 22 | The loch also seems to have been used as a dumping place for unwanted kitchen utensils . |
| 23 | Damages in libel cases are intended generally to compensate the plaintiff for loss of face , and specifically for any loss of work or earnings which can be proved to have been suffered as a result of the libel . |
| 24 | ( Pound had studied some of the same French poets , notably Laforgue and Rimbaud , but he had profited by them in a quite different way from Eliot , and he was averse to the central thrust of the symboliste endeavour , to which indeed the imagist or imagiste movement which he had sponsored had been intended as a challenging alternative . ) |
| 25 | Taking into account the annual exemption , indexation and rebasing , the shareholders ought to be in a better tax position than if the amounts distributed had been classified as a company distribution . |
| 26 | Ford summarized his section on in-house use by observing that the ratio of books consulted in-house to books borrowed has been reported as a range from 0.4:1 to 11.2:1 . |
| 27 | Unemployment remained high by historic standards ( a peak of 3.2 million being reached in April 1985 ) ; but somehow it appeared to have been defused as a major political issue during the eighties , partly through redundancy payments . |
| 28 | Five people including some from North Wales died in the blaze , said to have been started as a prank in Palmeira Drive , in April last year . |