Example sentences of "[pron] have been [verb] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I popped in to see what the form was , and to find out if I 'd been fired as a house-sitter . |
| 2 | Soon after that , I was fortunate enough to obtain a research studentship at U.C.L. which paid me a small salary of 750 per annum — this was slightly less than what I had been earning as a teacher , but it enabled me to return full-time to research at U.C.L. The money for the studentship had been provided by a television network , ATN . |
| 3 | What I experienced as I fell on my knees was a metaphor — I saw the technological society into which I had been born as a Frankenstein body from which the spirit was missing . |
| 4 | I had been enrolled as a student at Canterbury before I went to Cambridge ; during the next four years I was visited by missionaries home on leave from Burma , though nothing definite was said . |
| 5 | Foolishly , I had not bothered to carry out any of the psychic protective techniques I had been taught as a ‘ probationer healer ’ at a school of esoteric studies . |
| 6 | I had been working as a dai ( midwife ) for the Government since 1974 , but I resigned when they stopped paying my salary and only paid me if I brought in patients to be sterilized . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been coming as a mere visitor . |
| 8 | What I am most conscious of is that I have been regarded as a controversial figure : until the age of sixty I was seen either as a subversive or as an enfant terrible . |
| 9 | Unfortunately I have been diagnosed as a sufferer of ‘ loyalistus onehundredpercentus . ’ |
| 10 | I have been described as many things , but that is the first time I have been described as a tourist attraction . |
| 11 | Beck , who has signed a two-year roll-on contract , said : ‘ I have been labelled as a certain type of manager with a certain method in mind . |
| 12 | Although I have been billed as a " computer man " — I have been employed in the computer marketing and services side of IBM for 17 years — for over half this time I have been a line manager . |
| 13 | The merger reserve , which has been reinstated as a result of transferring the goodwill to the consolidated p&l account , may be transferred to the consolidated p&l account reserve . |
| 14 | The shaded area between the actual time-series and the trend line in Fig. 3.1 is called the output gap and is a reflection of the output of goods and services which has been lost as a result of the unemployment . |
| 15 | Between the house and the barn is the smallest of the three buildings which has been reconstructed as a cattle byre ( animal house ) . |
| 16 | The move , which has been presented as a fait accompli , effectively heralds the complete break-up of Deloitte Haskins & Sells International ( DHSI ) , which until the beginning of this week was ostensibly in talks with another Big Eight firm , Touche Ross International . |
| 17 | Erm that this is an are the whole of this area apart from the east side where which is of course greenbelt , is an area which has been defined as a as a landscape which has suffered character character loss through agricultural change or urban intrusion of a major scale . |
| 18 | To a geologist , for instance , the Pacific Ocean is a very sharply defined depression of the earth 's surface which has been formed as a result of the complicated processes of plate tectonics . |
| 19 | This inhibition can be reversed by IL-6 , a cytokine which has been implicated as a positive factor for mucosal IgA production . |
| 20 | Pakistan 's economy has suffered from losing cheap Kuwaiti oil and American aid , which has been suspended as a result of America 's suspicion of Pakistan 's nuclear-weapons programme . |
| 21 | One measure which has been proposed as a quality of care indicator is readmission to hospital . |
| 22 | One such theory is the ‘ Now Print ! ’ mechanism ( Brown & Kulik , 1977 ; Livingston , 1967a , 1967b ) which has been proposed as a special memory mechanism which operates only at times of great arousal to encode specific details of the situation , this will be briefly considered when evidence about flashbulb and vivid memories is discussed below . |
| 23 | As an apparently domestic residence it seems strange that it replaced a timber structure which has been interpreted as a temple , although time elapsed between the latter 's destruction and the building of the house ; it is unusual to find so deliberate a secularization of a religious site in the Roman world . |
| 24 | The new rules limit protection to wetlands that provide environmental benefit — a contentious definition which has been denounced as a politically-motivated attempt to free large areas from protection . |
| 25 | Maybe when the river runs blue again , shrimp boats will return to Paul , which has been described as a village unique in Holderness . |
| 26 | IT WAS BNFL which drew the applause at Buxton at the end of the Company-sponsored Quest for New Musicals , which has been described as a ‘ resounding success . ’ |
| 27 | Formed in as a three-piece , they now have four members in their ranks and play music which has been described as a cross between Sonic Youth and Stiff Little Fingers . |
| 28 | Puck Fair is a trio of accomplished Irish musical emigrants who came together in the United States to perform music which has been described as a unique fusion between the spontaneity of jazz and the driving rhythms of traditional Irish jigs , reels and hornpipes . |
| 29 | Gloucester does not feature at all , something which has been read as a sign of Woodville control of the council . |
| 30 | Gloucester does not feature at all , something which has been read as a sign of Woodville control of the council . |