Example sentences of "[adv] have been [verb] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has even been darkly insinuated by Paolucci ( in Beccaria , 1963 ) that he may merely have been used as a front by his radical friends , the Verri brothers , who were too much in trouble with the authorities at the time to risk writing it themselves |
| 2 | Although it hardly seemed to notice the Hooligan affair , and its only immediate response was a front-page poem ‘ Hot Weather and Crime ’ which can only have been intended as a slap in the face for The Times leader on ‘ The Weather and the Streets ’ : The message was clear enough : if it took crime and violence to attract the attention of the mighty to the lives of the poor , then so be it . |
| 3 | Schick ( 1972 p. 16 ) states that ‘ budgeting always has been conceived as a process for systematically relating expenditure of funds to the accomplishment of planned objectives ’ . |
| 4 | Like getting wrapped up in the Masai , getting wrapped up in Indirect Rule was not inherently a passive occupation ; it seems in retrospect extraordinary that something to which so much energy was in fact devoted should ever have been perceived as a sign of imperial decrepitude . |
| 5 | But here was a youth so far ahead of his time that if he had turned up on the streets of London sixty or seventy years later , he would still have been recognised as a sure sign of an alarmingly unrivalled degeneration among the young . |
| 6 | ‘ L'Etat c'est moi ’ was a shrewd remark , but can hardly have been intended as a definition even in the France of the time . |
| 7 | If allies were able to provide the necessities of life , primitive valuables could have acted as a medium of exchange ; primitive valuables may also have been used as a means of contracting alliances as may marriages between members of different political groups . |
| 8 | At Cultoon there is a deep narrow dale in which there is a den that probably had been used as a human habitation . |
| 9 | R.R. Darlington stressed that the ecclesiastical content of several tenth-century law codes suggests that they originated as the canons of synods. Æthelstan 's first code , for example , and his Ordinance on Charities , both say that they were framed on the advice of Archbishop Wulfhelm of Canterbury and other bishops , and the text known as I Edmund appears from its prologue to be a set of decisions taken purely by the ecclesiastical wing of the witan ( royal council ) ; they may eventually have been issued as a royal decree , but that I Edmund in its surviving form is something other than this is implied by the fifth chapter , which exhorts the king to put churches in order . |
| 10 | There is a bitter twist of irony in these last lines which completely changes the complexion of what might before have been viewed as a sentimental poem . |
| 11 | If the defect had been in a component of the toaster , say the heating element , the result would still be the same unless the heating element had not been supplied as part of the toaster ( e.g. had been bought as a replacement later ) . |
| 12 | Hunting may well have been seen as a pleasurable distraction , but from a practical point of view the bow and arrow is more useful . |
| 13 | Moreover , it should be noted that according to this distinction the central detail in the Christianson and Loftus ( 1991 ) study might well have been categorized as a peripheral detail . |
| 14 | there is a basic four-chord harmonic sequence , used as a structural underpinning for much of the piece ; in a conventional rock song this might well have been deployed as a rift or worked into predictable phrase-structure patterns . |
| 15 | He could have side-stepped the issue completely , but he chose to give a frank response , dismissing as ‘ garbage ’ a Federal Bureau of Narcotics ' pamphlet which described marijuana as ‘ a powerful narcotic in which lurks murder , insanity and death ’ , words that might well have been taken as a reference to events in Hollywood , because they were almost identical to words used by the mass media in descriptions of Manson . |
| 16 | Singh , while holding a Green Card , was not a full US citizen and might simply have been released as a gesture . |
| 17 | The account hovers on the brink of farce , and must surely have been intended as a spine-chiller more analogous to a modern horror film than a literal description of something which was to be believed in . |
| 18 | Still on the right and at eye level on Kampa Island are the eaves of the House of the Virgin Mary , where a painting of the Virgin which was said to have come floating downstream has been used as a house sign and a cult object . |
| 19 | He had previously written a journalistic piece about the killings , in which De Freitas figured as shabby and contemptible , and Gail Benson as a silly upper-class woman whose accessibility to the knife might almost have been construed as a last desperate act of Sixties modishness : an antic exported from Swinging London . |
| 20 | Whipping up nationalistic sentiment is not difficult to do with Chinese students because of an underlying layer of patriotic sentiment and if there is any substance to this ‘ conspiracy ’ theory , the African students may indeed have been used as a diversion . |
| 21 | A tumulus on the summit ridge is evidence that it was known , probably as a hunting ground , and may indeed have been occupied as a settlement by primitive man . |
| 22 | Eventually , in what would then have been interpreted as a generous gesture on the part of the Poor Law authorities , the wife was freed in order to give her a second chance to build up a home . |
| 23 | What might initially have been envisaged as a permanent position is broken down into its component parts . |
| 24 | Complaints about the Middlesbrough mosque and procedures for funerals held there have been dismissed as a ‘ complete misunderstanding ’ by Muslim community leaders . |
| 25 | Without that admission the pricing policy in issue could doubtless have been justified as a permissible interpretation of the requirements of long-term profitability . |
| 26 | THE general election result was a defeat for the BBC , the higher thinkers , the opinion polls — and the Liberal Democrats who once again have been exposed as a hollow shell . |