Example sentences of "[noun] have been [verb] as [adj] " in BNC.

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1 A CONTROVERSIAL report which says Darlington is in the middle of a severe recession has been attacked as political propaganda by outraged Tories .
2 I was in Italy and read in the paper that Paul Van Kempen had been appointed as General Music Director in Aachen .
3 Some of the oil-shale bings in the Scottish Lothians have been scheduled as ancient monuments .
4 Two variables have been mooted as possible determinants of success in making plural reference .
5 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 ) .
6 Three companies have been mentioned as possible bidders : Philip Morris , the US-based food and tobacco concern and owners of Miller Brewing , Anheuser Busch of the US , the world 's number one brewer , and Hanson , the acquisitive UK company that once owned Courage .
7 It seemed that in a school where he was in such a minority , his language and ethnicity had been defined as particular problems requiring the rather Draconian solution of Statementing .
8 A variety of Continentals have been named as possible buyers .
9 The following organisations have been welcomed as corporate members of WACC :
10 For some years now , writer and art director have been considered as equal partners working closely together .
11 This change was marked by the arrival on 1 June of Air Commodore Hugh Pughe Lloyd , M.C. , D.F.C. , to take over as A.O.C. from A.V.M. Maynard , A.F.C. Newly-promoted from the rank of Group Captain , Lloyd had been serving as Senior Air Staff Officer with No.2 Group of Bomber Command .
12 In particular , dictionary definitions and co-occurrence statistics have been identified as valuable sources of semantic information .
13 The locks and warehouses behind the City Station have been restored as Granary Wharf .
14 In ( A ) the feathers have been treated as sculptural masses , which fold round the form .
15 However in many cases it is doubtful whether these are anything other than the traditional wage system in a new disguise — for ‘ merit ’ , ‘ loyalty ’ and ‘ cooperation ’ , which are often tied to length of service have been used as major criteria for wage increases granted in this fashion … managements have not proceeded hastily towards full-blown wage rationalization because of their own concern with preserving worker identification with the enterprise …
16 But , if units of metal have been used as monetary values and in monetary transactions , what is the difference between a coin and a lump of metal ?
17 Bovine brain extracts and bovine pituitary glands have been identified as enriched sources of a mitogenic activity .
18 So , already , these things have been done as common sense in the past .
19 This appears to be in conflict with Summala 's claim that ‘ it is inconceivable that drivers would continually operate under such emotional stress ’ ( Summala , 1988 , p.494 ) , and an alternative description of driver behaviour developed by Summala has been described as zero-risk theory .
20 The Ministry of Agriculture statement said that the warning had been intended as preventative advice .
21 Public decisions have been treated as exogenous variables , with the government able to alter tax rates and public expenditure at will .
22 Woman victim of pile-up is named A WOMAN killed in a four-vehicle pile-up near York on Thursday has been identified as 43-year-old Jacqueline Shepherdson of Sussex Street , Hull .
23 This worthwhile cause has been chosen as Good Housekeeping 's Charity of the Year 1992
24 George had been toppled as Davidian leader .
25 Quite justifiably , hospitals have been labelled as noisy environments .
26 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 .
27 Even the tough German infantrymen had been used as human mules , lugging the heavy shells up on their backs .
28 For example , the whole of Mayfair and much of the City of London have been designated as Conservation Areas .
29 The Lake District , Dartmoor and Exmoor have been selected as top-priority sites for conservation .
30 Formerly known as managing clerks , this body of employees has been known as legal executives since 1963 when the Institute of Legal Executives was established .
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