Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [verb] as an " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the main reasons why I joined the 1990 rebel tour to South Africa was my disappointment with the way I had been used as an England spinner in the previous couple of years . |
| 2 | However , Sally Kuenssberg , a specialist in children 's panel training in the department of adult and continuing education , says that she has been appointed as an individual with experience of the needs of children . |
| 3 | In her action , Mrs Rutherford , of Wallace Street , Brucefield , Dunfermline , said that from 1942-45 she had been employed as an insulator in Rosyth 's lagging department . |
| 4 | This will still be true even if you have been trained as an anthropologist . |
| 5 | Each a study in itself , with titles like ‘ No two feathers ’ , ‘ Butterflyman ’ , and ‘ Angel and the Dreamer ’ , they have been flown as an aerial ballet to classical music , wind harps and synthesisers . |
| 6 | It has been classed as an R Coronæ star , but it is certainly atypical , and it is wiser to admit that at present we simply do not know . |
| 7 | It has been identified as an aetiological agent in cervical cancers , and recently , in colonic neoplasms . |
| 8 | The perceived value of fine work by established makers is rising : one piece remains on exhibition although sold — it has been bought as an investment . |
| 9 | It had been founded as an irregular unit for service in the Western Desert by Colonel David Stirling , then a subaltern in the Scots Guards . |
| 10 | It had been described as an exclusive enclave for the rich and privileged , an escapist 's paradise , a tropical slice of heaven on earth … and so the praise went on . |
| 11 | He had been elected as an opposition Jatiya Party member of the Jatiya Sangsad ( parliament ) in February [ see pp. 38006-07 ] , but was expected to forfeit this office if he lost his appeal . |
| 12 | The jangling of his friend 's bells and chains , which he had been using as an aid for navigation , had ceased abruptly . |
| 13 | Throughout his lifetime he had been regarded as an excellently scientific psychologist who had shown that the level of a child 's intelligence has little to do with the child 's home environment ; instead it is a product of the intelligences of the child 's parents . |
| 14 | More recently he had been seen as an impediment to the resolution of the continuing ethnically based dispute with Senegal , in the course of which at least 40,000 black Mauritanian nationals had been forcibly expelled by the Mauritanian authorities [ see pp. 36579-80 ; 36840 ] . |
| 15 | Oddly the thought still writhed within him — the thought of other men using the body he had loved himself , being given wholesale what he had been offered as an inestimable gift . |
| 16 | He was more elated than when he had been shooting as an international for Great Britain : ‘ It 's like trying to get eight draws on the football pools — anybody can win . |
| 17 | indeed , he , he 's been revered as an intellectual player , erm , he , a thinking player , a shining example , and of course , that , that shows up in , in statistics when you read about what he 's achieved , and you think , you know , fifty six caps for Northern Ireland . |
| 18 | Some of them have been used as an indirect way of seeing the file by parents denied access for themselves . |