Example sentences of "has [be] [verb] as an [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Abuse of children has been recognised as an important concern because children are seen to represent the future ; to abuse them is to abuse the future welfare of the nation .
2 The trustees must disclose to members , prospective members , beneficiaries and trade unions : the address and functions of the Pensions Ombudsman ; the role of the Occupational Pensions Advisory Service ; whether an insolvency practitioner has been appointed as an independent trustee ; whether the Registrar of Occupational and Personal Pensions has accepted registration of the scheme ; and whether the trustees have access to the guidance of the Occupational Pensions Board .
3 Walter Reynolds has been condemned as an illiterate and unprincipled time-server , lacking in strength of character and nobility of vision .
4 The package has been conceived as an interactive whole .
5 Therefore , this T lymphocyte product has been implicated as an important mediator of pathology in a variety of autoimmune and inflammatory conditions .
6 This dispersive approach is different from that pursued in France where the nuclear industry has been maintained as an integrated entity with mixed government/private ownership but with Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique , AEA 's equivalent , in a commanding position over a large part of it .
7 Dyspnoea has been defined as an uncomfortable awareness of breathing .
8 This sub-atomic medium has been defined as an energy-rich substrate , the common denominator in all particle reactions in nuclear physics .
9 Fourth , and finally , although the process has been seen as an international trend , most studies have been too ‘ parochial ’ and ‘ logically positivist ’ , and even in Fielding 's work ( Dean et al . ,
10 This will go some way towards the goal of eliminating the full-time VDU operator , which has been seen as an undesirable form of work organisation .
11 For too long , it has seemed to us , involving the citizen in how public services should be provided has been seen as an optional extra .
12 In carrying the banner for the ‘ uniqueness of the individual ’ , Brian Way has been seen as an articulate and effective militant against the authoritarian stance of traditional education .
13 As a result of the growing numbers of taekwondo practitioners , taekwondo has been listed as an Olympic sport and will be demonstrated at the 1988 Olympics .
14 The greater part of Santa Isabel has been confirmed as an uplifted marginal portion of the Ontong Java Plateau , an elevated area of anomalously thick oceanic crust , here overlain by pelagic limestones and andesitic volcaniclastic sediments derived from an adjacent island arc .
15 The greater part of Santa Isabel has been confirmed as an uplifted marginal portion of the Ontong Java Plateau , an elevated area of anomalously thick oceanic crust which is here overlain by pelagic limestones and andesitic volcaniclastic sediments derived from an adjacent island arc .
16 One of the classic cases in Britain is Lady Park Wood , an ancient and very mixed coppice in the Wye valley , which has been kept as an unmanaged reserve for nearly half a century .
17 Sadly , that has been treated as an open invitation to create statutory exceptions without the need for special justifications .
18 The effect of this change on prior years is a credit of £9.1m , which has been treated as an exceptional item in the 1991/92 p&l account ; accordingly , prior years ' figures have not been restated .
19 In so far as NAB has been regarded as an interim arrangement , despite the dropping of the word ‘ Interim ’ from the original title of the main body , questions about its future are bound to arise .
20 In the past , question time has been regarded as an effective method of pressing ministers .
21 In other judicial dicta the exception has been regarded as an independent one .
22 One might call this ‘ applied phonology ’ ; however , the phonological analysis of different languages raises a great number of difficult and interesting theoretical problems , and for a long time the study of phonology ‘ for its own sake ’ has been regarded as an important area of theoretical linguistics .
23 If one context has been presented as an exemplar , however , evidence for the pupils ' grasp of the idea should be sought in a different context .
24 The computer programming language Logo , in particular , has been presented as an ideal medium for allowing children to develop their thinking skills .
25 The value of shares in firm A is V SL and the return to shareholders , assuming that all earnings are distributed , is which is earnings before tax but after debt interest has been deducted as an allowable expense , less corporation tax .
26 The use of postal transport to act concurrently as post-buses has been hailed as an important and efficient way of reaching small settlements .
27 It has been identified as an aetiological agent in cervical cancers , and recently , in colonic neoplasms .
28 In the last few years trace element analysis of the marble has been introduced as an additional aspect of characterisation .
29 Modernity for these writers has been used as an all-embracing concept that includes both the ideologies of the modern world — its ‘ modernisms ’ — and also the economic , social and cultural realities of modern life .
30 The use of a biliary endoprosthesis has been proposed as an alternative approach for patients at high risk for surgery .
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