Example sentences of "it has [vb pp] as [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This workbook was further developed to become the Basic Skills Workbook , in 1974 , and it has served as a model for many library workbooks throughout the world .
2 On the one hand it has appeared as a focus for resistance .
3 Or by a robin quite determinedly attacking a bundle of red feathers that it has mistaken as an invader to its territory while ignoring an adjacent and perfectly good-looking stuffed robin , but lacking the all-important red feather flash .
4 For all the centuries of recorded time it has existed as an art in which style and fashion were set by the taste of an aristocracy ; bourgeois jewellery , peasant jewellery in less precious materials such as we now call costume jewellery , all imitated court fashion …
5 Since 1987 it has emerged as the number one buyer of privatised bus companies , picking up operators from Inverness to Hampshire .
6 To mix the metaphor , Western trade has been a sedative , not a tonic ; it has acted as a brake on reform , not a stimulant .
7 I hope that the panel will feel that it has had as a result of the position statements before it , and the discussions over the last few days , sufficient information to decide whether to exclude certain sectors .
8 Ray Fell , chairman of the Leeds United Supporters ' Club said : ‘ It has come as a kick in the stomach . ’
9 It has come as a shock to realise that your magazine can no longer be relied on to present the relevant information in a straightforward factual manner .
10 If it has died as a result of dog fighting then immediate action will be taken to stamp this odious business out straight away . ’
11 Perhaps the most remarkable achievement of OSO is not only that it has continued as a headquarters unit functioning from Glasgow for so long , but that it survived the Thatcher era as an interventionist wing of Government intended to nudge work in the direction of British industry .
12 The breed was initially dual-purpose , whatever its colour , but for the most part ceded its milking role to the neighbouring Ayrshire ; it has continued as a beef breed but has never been intensively developed for that role .
13 It has evolved as an idea from a previous initiative in 1983 known as management budgeting .
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