Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [adv] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This could have been explained either as an effect of the greater attention required to drive through unfamiliar junctions , or by the novelty of the stimuli making them more distinctive in memory . |
| 2 | Her new husband , William Chinnock , had affiliations with the Zion Chapel on the corner of Catherine Hill and Whittox Lane , and had been baptised there as an infant in 1789 . |
| 3 | My right hon. Friend knows that set-aside has been regarded primarily as a restraint on production . |
| 4 | Both of these points of contention were symptomatic of the fundamental issue at stake for Washington , which was that it had lost control of events in Cuba and a client state which had been regarded virtually as a part of the American mainland had moved out of the US orbit . |
| 5 | Finally , LDL has been implicated both as a factor responsible for the initial breach and in the increased smooth muscle cell proliferation ( Ross & Marker , 1976 ; Small , 1977 ) . |
| 6 | Nothing is known of his early years , though he seems to have been occupied initially as a bricklayer . |
| 7 | A maidservant , less lucky , is said to have been hanged subsequently as a witch . |
| 8 | Workfare was on the committee 's agenda but the committee has now been wound up and it is thought workfare has been pushed back as an idea requiring long-term consideration rather than implementation in the near future . |
| 9 | The assignments in polymer mechanics have been made largely as a result of experimental work with chemical analogues of the polymer under study — for example for polystyrene by the use of substitutions one the position of the ( glass-rubber ) and other transitions is observed , and some , largely qualitative , rules laid down . |
| 10 | Again she was plied with whisky , but this time in hot water and sweetened with brown sugar ; she was then led to the sitting-room couch that had been made up as a bed for her . |
| 11 | Sally Brass was rumoured to have been seen here as a Foot Guards private on sentry-go after her brother 's imprisonment , OCS 88 . |
| 12 | These interventions , associated with the Keynesian revolution in economic thinking which called for the state to become involved in maintaining the level of aggregate demand in the economy through the use of budgetry policies , have been seen not as a triumph of democratic struggle but as a further example of the use of the state as an instrument of the interests of the ruling class . |
| 13 | The Commission considered changes desirable in the public interest in the structure , organisation , training , regulation of and entry into the legal profession , although the final report has been seen largely as a vindication of the profession . |
| 14 | Frank McManus who had been MP at Westminster for Fermanagh and South Tyrone until February , 1974 had been selected earlier as a Unity candidate for the Convention elections but after a party meeting just before the close of nominations withdrew his name . |
| 15 | Despite being launched six months or so ago in the US , with almost singular lack of impact , this part of the package has been accepted internally as a program integrator by no less an august institution than IBM itself . |
| 16 | George Sanders was out of the running now , having been hauled in as an enemy spy , but I 'd be interested in knowing who precisely had tipped the Feds off to his brokerage for state secrets in the suburbs . |
| 17 | Provision of the means to wage an atrocious war had been agreed on as a sign of good faith . |
| 18 | His grant of a " full , free and absolute pardon " to Nixon in September 1974 did , however , raise new doubts : had this been agreed earlier as a condition of Nixon 's resignation ? |
| 19 | But the agreement has been interpreted here as a bid to stave off a likely request that Peru leave the Fund because of its violation of the rules . |
| 20 | The relationships between these two components have often been modelled almost as an afterthought , and are frequently represented in an inconsistent fashion . |
| 21 | Gender has been used historically as a basis of the organization of educational provision , whether in terms of separate schools or separate curricula ( David , 1980 ) . |
| 22 | This technique , originally developed by Annett et al ( 1971 ) , has been used extensively as a basis for training and retraining requirements ( Duncan , 1975 , Shepherd and Duncan , 1980 ) , and also for the study of job satisfaction ( Crawley and Spurgeon , 1979 ) . |
| 23 | The original , unaltered version of the story had been used initially as a sample exercise in undergraduate stylistics tutorials . |
| 24 | On April 8 it was reported that ANC peace talks with Inkatha , scheduled for the previous weekend , had been called off as a result of the ANC 's May 9 ultimatum to de Klerk . |
| 25 | I would like to send you my most recent lectures , the second of which ( " Socrates and Tragedy " ) has been understood here as a chain of paradoxes and his aroused hatred and anger in some quarters . |
| 26 | Will Slaughter had been employed formerly as a headsman . |
| 27 | Part of the cathedral had been roped off as a theatre , a very Sussex touch . |
| 28 | By contrast , those who were involved in the new machinery of public credit which had been set up as a result of the financial revolution were doing remarkably well , through their investments in institutions such as the Bank of England and the New East India Company , and from the interest they received on loans to the government . |
| 29 | But it does state that ‘ immediately after Soviet power had been restored there as a result of complicated processes in international and internal life ’ abuses of power and human rights violations were committed . |
| 30 | This extra food seems to have been provided more as a gesture by the family , than as basic sustenance . |