Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [adv] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been built ostensibly as a future home for a son and his future wife , but tastes and pocket books had changed . |
| 2 | In Mexico and El Salvador , television has been used experimentally as an educational medium and , in Brazil , classic novels have been serialised to give people a knowledge of their own culture . |
| 3 | Democracy in industry , or , more broadly , at the work place , is an idea that has often been discussed , but with a few exceptions ( including Yugoslavia to some extent ) has hardly as yet been embarked on as a serious practice in most societies . |
| 4 | And here again the temptation was one that has been noted before as an ever-present danger to the private lending libraries : the pressure to sell off a single very valuable asset . |
| 5 | A recruitment committee is to be formed to provide jobs for players and Greville Edwards has been invited back as a commission-only commercial manager to revive the sponsorship and hospitality income . |
| 6 | On the other hand , if we look at a later decision-making episode in the same project when the pupils are temporarily in role as Indians who have to decide whether or not to receive a white stranger into their midst ( p. 53 ) , this is more likely to have been played seriously as a real game for by then the children , after several lessons on the same project , were steeped in the material sufficiently deeply to respect the rich complexity of the problem . |
| 7 | A British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) television programme , Panorama , broadcast on Nov. 18 , suggested that Waite had been set up as a front man in the arms for hostages deal and helped gather intelligence on the whereabouts of the captors . |
| 8 | BRITISH workers have been laid off as a fly-the-flag mission to Seville 's Expo '92 flopped . |
| 9 | Oswald had been brought up as a Christian prince in Celtic lands from the age of 12 , so it was perhaps natural for him to look to an Irish religious foundation for ecclesiastical and spiritual direction , and it may be that these overtures to Iona also reflect a dependence on Dalriadic military support at the time of his accession . |
| 10 | His friend Chris would do nothing , of course , to undermine him deliberately but Patten has always been spoken about as a one-day leader . |
| 11 | The windows which had been nailed up as an anti-escape measure were thick with steam , and water was pouring down the panes . |
| 12 | The whole of Havant 's operation has been spun off as a separate business , so Wilkie has to find outside customers for the plant 's mix of personal computer and mid-range disk drives ; integrated disk subsystems and ‘ flexible circuitry ’ expertise ( those plastic straps bearing solder tracks found when opening up a personal computer or disk drive ) . |
| 13 | Anorexia nervosa has been viewed historically as a complex and often perplexing disorder . |
| 14 | As far as I know , the only suggestions that have been put forward as a possible cure for this problem have been related to dietary deficiencies . |
| 15 | An unobtrusive , relatively clean light railway has been put forward as an alternative method of transport for the M25 London orbital motorway . |
| 16 | These men who , with their fists , knocked others insensible , the art of doing so having been passed down as a necessary part of their growing up , had evidently never had to deal with a fainting female before ; and when the big , fat , enormous-breasted woman came into the kitchen , bawling , ‘ What the hell d' you think you 're at ! |
| 17 | Mr Maxwell , who lives in Oxfordshire , has been taken on as a part-time consultant for the London recruitment agency , Morgan Chase Associates . |
| 18 | We 've been taken on as a whole gang with lots of others , to make roads for those who are chopping down the trees in Wychwood Forest . |
| 19 | So far elevated levels of platelet-specific proteins have been discussed purely as a likely measure of enhanced in vivo platelet-release reaction in diabetic subjects . |
| 20 | The LIFESPAN username has been created successfully as an immediate descendant of the requesting user ( this can not be altered ) . |
| 21 | For Tencel , Courtaulds ' new cellulosic fibre , Italy has been singled out as a prime target in Europe because of the size , quality and design strength of its textile industry . |
| 22 | Pension abatement has been singled out as a blatant piece of age discrimination that is obsolete and should be abolished . |
| 23 | But Bosnich has been hailed now as an overnight success . |