Example sentences of "[noun] have been [verb] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the numbers of single sex schools have declined dramatically during the past three decades , girls-only schools have been supported as a desirable alternative to coeducation in some LEAs . |
| 2 | For 200 years City offices have been regarded as a near certain store of value . |
| 3 | Protruding parking bump sensors that sound a warning when they nudge another car have been launched as an accessory to help drivers squeeze into tight parking spaces . |
| 4 | Is the Minister aware that a number of people in the west midlands and elsewhere who took the opportunity of buying their accommodation now find that their homes have been repossessed as a direct result of Government economic policy ? |
| 5 | The cheesemaker has the best control over his cheese if he is able to use the milk from his own flock or herd — he then knows exactly what he is getting and where the animals have been grazed as the type of grass and subsoil contributes much to the flavour of the milk and then the cheese . |
| 6 | Through the ages these western seaways have been used as a highway by settlers and saints , pilgrims and pirates and traders and travellers . |
| 7 | Measurements of a fetoprotein concentrations alone or with one other serum test have been classed as a fetoprotein tests . |
| 8 | Since then a succession of tawdry traitors have been unmasked as the result of information passed to the intelligence services by a defector . |
| 9 | Many small towns in rural areas have been chosen as the sites of branch plants because they have ready supplies of labour which ( drawing on low female activity rates ) is flexible , is relatively cheap , and has little tradition of trade unionism . |
| 10 | Stefan Edberg and Monica Seles have been named as the Official 1991 world champions by an ITF three man panel comprising Frank Sedgeman , Fred Perry and Tony Trabert . |
| 11 | The two trails have been designed as a flexible resource to provide ideal project material for environmental science , geography and history studies . |
| 12 | The Ministry of Defence says all Wessex helicopters have been suspended as a precaution , until the cause of the crash is established . |
| 13 | Skeletal element proportions based on total numbers of bones have been used as the basis for Fig. 3.1 comparing two kestrel samples with four barn owl samples . |
| 14 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many people in Scotland have been injured as a result of being assaulted with a knife or pointed article since 1988 ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 15 | Opera singers have been studied as a rule either by musicologists interested in particular composers or by biographers interested in anecdotes . |
| 16 | Among students of small-town plans , linear settlements of this type have been seen as the commonest and the earliest form from which more complex plans evolved . |
| 17 | Although the presence of worms in the small intestine is not associated with any specific lesions , occasionally , heavy infections have been reported as a cause of impaction and perforation leading peritonitis . |
| 18 | Although they are commonest in rocks of the Late Palaeozoic , some Mesozoic plants have been regarded as a later branch of the seed ferns . |
| 19 | In an exhaustive study the Brookings Institution identified 190 incidents between 1944 and 1979 where the armed forces of the USSR have been used as a political instrument in peacetime . |
| 20 | Medics have been cited as a key example of a modern breed of technical expert , instrumental in extending and deepening state intervention into new and familiar areas . |
| 21 | Increasingly patriarchy , racism and militarism have been named as the main enemy rather than the milder rebukes of the 1970s against red tape , prejudice and sexism . |
| 22 | The report 's conclusions are particularly embarrassing to the government as the Broads have been regarded as a test for its conservation commitment . |
| 23 | The major ‘ internal ’ information resources within RBGE have been identified as the library and archive collections , the photographic collections , computer systems , publications , scientific and horticultural data collections , staff expertise , and administrative data . |
| 24 | The fragmentary remains from Eccles have been interpreted as the figures of two gladiators , although , in light of the subjects of other figural designs in Britain ( see below ) , this might also have been a hunting scene ( or could have been of figures other than gladiators ; see the drawing of Cupids as gladiators : pI . |
| 25 | The court should inquire whether there has been an improper , unreasonable or negligent act or omission , whether costs have been incurred as a result , and , if so , whether the discretion to make an order should be exercised . |
| 26 | Rob seems genuinely puzzled as to why the band have been heralded as the great white/black hope for modernism in the '90s . |
| 27 | So far buildings have been acquired as the result of the Bradford efforts which are at present undergoing alterations and improvements which will eventually accommodate about 20 handicapped people plus staff . |
| 28 | Remnants of the colliery buildings have been left as a reminder of the coal mining industry — Kinneil colliery closed as recently as 1981 . |
| 29 | Psychiatric rehabilitation services have attended to the needs of people who are unmotivated and resistant to help , and various models of psychosocial rehabilitation have been developed as a consequence . |
| 30 | ‘ There are not as many nuclear power stations as expected , there is more uranium than was thought , and the fast-breeder reactors which used the reprocessed fuel have been abandoned as a failure . |