Example sentences of "what has [been] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | SACHIN TENDULKAR , the Indian batting prodigy , will break more fresh ground this summer when he becomes Yorkshire 's first overseas player and dismantles what has been perceived as a racial barrier at Headingley . |
| 2 | Eckholm 's book ( 1976 ) does this more than adequately , and less recent accounts ( e.g. Jacks and Whyte 1939 : Hyams 1952 ) have also documented what has been seen as a widespread and serious problem . |
| 3 | Much has been written on the performance of British business during the period and many attempts have been made to explain , excuse or refute what has been seen as a decline in British innovative ability since the successes of the industrial revolution . |
| 4 | ‘ What has been presented as a simple pill-popping exercise is , in fact , an intensely medicalised and painful procedure which can need four clinic visits and last 12 days . ’ |
| 5 | In one of the central episodes in the novel , Humberto not only cuckolds his employer , but fathers on his wife the heir whom the oligarch himself has never been able to engender , and it is only subsequently that it becomes clear that what has been narrated as a factual account of events is , in reality , no more than a fantasy in which he simultaneously avenges his social humiliation and effects the incorporation of the humble Peñaloza line into the oligarchy . |
| 6 | At one point he inserts the comment , ‘ you will want cause and effect ’ , as a prelude to a ludicrously far-fetched explanation of what has been happening to a character in one of the text 's interstices ( Pynchon 1975a : 663 ) . |
| 7 | The Air Force regained control of 42–22614 in what has been termed as a ‘ complicated swap ’ that involved a C–118 and other aircraft in trade for the P–59 . |
| 8 | • Matra is developing what has been described as a ‘ four-wheel motorcycle ’ , using Clio 16-valve power . |
| 9 | There has developed what has been described as a ‘ transition trap ’ , experienced by the generation which has cared for their elders in the traditional manner , but whose children have increasingly embraced Western lifestyles , and fail to fulfil customary expectations about caring for their parents . |
| 10 | All knew that they would have to pass through what has been described as a maelstrom , and that they would have to rely on the seamanship of their coxswain to reach the relative safety of open water ; there would be no second chance in conditions which were described as the worst in living memory . ’ |
| 11 | Although he is unwilling to specify in advance any privileged source of power , there nevertheless underlies his work what has been described as a ‘ philosophical monism ’ , a conception of a ‘ will to power ’ forever expanding and bursting forth in the form of a will to know . |
| 12 | Indeed , just prior to but , there is what has been described as a ‘ possible completion point ’ . |
| 13 | This loss of income became generalized , through the play of the labour market , to less skilled families , to school-leavers , to ethnic minorities , and to the sick and disabled to create what has been described as a ‘ deprived underclass ’ . |
| 14 | In the debate on the Remonstrance against Buckingham in June he argued that the Arminians ‘ run in string with the papists and flatter greatness to oppress the subject ’ , thereby making what has been described as a new and crucial intellectual link between alteration of religion and alteration of government . |
| 15 | This behaviour is motivated by what has been described as a relentless pursuit of thinness , a morbid fear of fatness , or a weight phobia . |