Example sentences of "[adj] have been [verb] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The practice of underwriting before the reforms of October 1986 has been described as a method of compensation for the high transactions costs of fixed commissions for large institutional clients . |
| 2 | When particular ethnic groups have campaigned to preserve single sex schools , because of compatibility with cultural norms , this has been perceived as a form of cultural imposition and indoctrination and even sexism . |
| 3 | This has been conceived as a method of generating and manipulating a range of complex assembly problems . |
| 4 | Sadly , these calls have not been heeded because in the United Kingdom this has been seen as a party political issue instead of an important pointer to priorities for action . |
| 5 | Although this has been seen as a crucial error on the emperor 's part , he may not have been wrong in his assessment of his magister militum . |
| 6 | Use of the TRAX system is now compulsory as noted above , but this has been seen as a benefit as much as a burden . |
| 7 | This has been hailed as a key to managing increasingly complex organizations . |
| 8 | This has been described as a golden opportunity for primary care to develop a much enhanced role . |
| 9 | Although Burda talks of maintaining its share of the upper end of the periodicals market this has been interpreted as a delaying tactic , to allow the magazine to bow out gracefully . |
| 10 | This had been described as a thrust , but it is almost certainly a submarine landslip deposit like those in Italy . |
| 11 | This had been designed as a power unit for working in alleys and narrow back-ways where conventional vehicles were unable to operate . |
| 12 | Alexander III has been seen as a great lawyer pope : he made pronouncements , gave judgments and held a council for the whole Church in which the law was defined . |
| 13 | He was fortunate to have been accepted as a member of the new customs syndicate in 1667 before Clarendon 's fall deprived him of his patron ; but the lease was cancelled four years later , when the farmers sought guarantees against the heavy defalcations to be expected in the imminent Dutch war . |
| 14 | It showed that subsection ( 2 ) of section 10 had been introduced as a government amendment and it was piloted through the committee stage by the then Minister of State for the Home Office , Mr Patrick Mayhew . |
| 15 | It has also encouraged the use of new financial control mechanisms such as external financing limits , which in Britain since 1979 have been used as a covert pay policy ( Heald and Steel 1981 : 15 ) . |
| 16 | The Thornton Gate Mineral sidings , which since 1963 have been used as a rail store , showing car 170 towing a train of rail bogies . |
| 17 | This was not , of course , just a Protestant response , although it benefited the Protestants that the great Catholic powers of France and Spain should tear one another apart ; their temporary truce in 1556 had been regarded as a significant reversal to the cause of reform , and when the war was renewed one of the leading English preachers , Christopher Goodman , was to urge the English not to fight for Spain , just as Knox urged the Scots not to fight for France . |
| 18 | Some 5,000 Western men remained trapped in Kuwait and Iraq , however , and there were reports confirming that some 500 of these had been taken as a " human shield " to sensitive installations [ see also above ] . |
| 19 | These have been described as a fraud upon the public because , even if a data user has solemnly undertaken in his registration statement not to disclose the data to any third party , he will under the Act be deemed not to have contravened the terms of his registration if he access to requests from police or tax officers pleading prejudice to their enquiries . |
| 20 | The latter had been described as a pewterer and metaller in 1666 ( see The Boke off Recorde of Kirkbie-Kendall , ed. by R. S. Fergusson ) later to become the well beloved " first and modern mayor of the Burgh " ( 1684 ) , and re-elected in 1708 . |
| 21 | The Companies Act 1989 has changed the definition of a subsidiary and as a result A. Layout ( Leisurewear ) Ltd has been treated as a subsidiary for the first time . |
| 22 | He would have been quite happy to have been employed as a production manager an or as an assistant director of which he was first class but the work did not come his way . |
| 23 | Its height suggests that it was unlikely to have been intended as a garden sculpture . |
| 24 | The immediate cause of this putative legislation is the possibility that nearly 70 arthritic sufferers have died and nearly 4,000 have been injured as a result of taking the drug Opren . |
| 25 | She found herself being slowly torn apart in her loyalties : on the one hand she felt proud to have been chosen as a wife by the head of one of the noblest families in Portugal , and she longed to start her new life ; but on the other , she could not help drawing back instinctively from what lay ahead . |
| 26 | The convent , built between 1868 and 1907 has been used as a school , orphanage and convalescent home , but is in a derelict state and in full view of the main A55 Expressway into Wales . |
| 27 | In private , as much as £4 million has been discussed as a realistic figure . |
| 28 | What at the outset in 1854 had been perceived as a bonus , an extra but due as of right to the workers , had by 1862 become ‘ the bounty to labour ’ , a gift bestowed and so gratuitous . |
| 29 | Resource documents from a WACC-supported consultation on the New World Information and Communication Order which took place in Peru in November 1990 have been published as a book under the title América Latina : Las comunicaciones cara al 2,000 ( Latin America : Communications facing the year 2,000 ) . |