Example sentences of "have [be] [vb pp] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | On June 10 Zenawi criticized the previous regime for accepting a payment in connection with the migration of Ethiopian Jews to Israel [ see pp. 38174-75 , which , he said , " should have been handled as a humanitarian problem " . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Hunting may well have been seen as a pleasurable distraction , but from a practical point of view the bow and arrow is more useful . |
5 | Promotion and sales may not have been seen as a high status activity deserving of such high level management attention . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | A reason why a pattern of vertical stripes might have been selected as a social bonding device is that attachment takes place most strongly during periods of grooming ( right ) and this involves a zebra bending its neck creating vertical folds in the skin ( below ) ; the bold stripes could have evolved to augment and elaborate these dark lines . |
8 | Admittedly , a No from the Bosnian Serbs should not be considered as an unequivocal , irreversible rejection of the peace plan , any more than a Yes should have been regarded as a wholehearted acceptance of it . |
9 | The right hon. Gentleman , who was a Treasury Minister throughout the lifetime of the Labour Government , will appreciate that figures such as those that I have just disclosed to the House would have been regarded as a complete impossibility in his time . |
10 | Without that admission the pricing policy in issue could doubtless have been justified as a permissible interpretation of the requirements of long-term profitability . |
11 | Korda may have been touted as a gifted player , but he was hardly a household name . |
12 | Had he been English he might have been described as a typical eccentric . |
13 | This would have been counted as a great success and a reasonable rate of progress in the 1850s or 1860s but was so unprecedented and so humiliating , given the contemporary assumptions about government control , that the bill was dropped . |
14 | The side which had lain on the river bed was green and moss-grown and there was nothing about it except for its shape and its anomalous position in the water to show that it might have been used as a lethal weapon . |
15 | One might have expected , therefore , that this issue about the nature and scope of linguistic description would have been interpreted as a derived issue , so to speak , in respect of syllabus design and methodology . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | It was always debatable whether Turkey should have been included as a European country ; its GNP suggests that it fits more comfortably with other Asian countries . |
19 | He retorted that the choice had been to close the paper and he wished he had done that because it would have been remembered as a decent publication . |
20 | What might initially have been envisaged as a permanent position is broken down into its component parts . |
21 | The indications are that the site may have been started as a small unpre-tentious building . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | ‘ It would have been classed as a soft target . |
24 | Were my pond not part-raised ( and itself no design award-winner , I must confess ) , then the NBS could have been installed as a semi in-ground filter . |
25 | It may have been heralded as a strategic disaster , but the Manchester-Sheffield electric route via Woodhead tunnel slipped quietly into oblivion , due ceremony avoided because of the public puzzlement that a heavy freight route should be axed only twenty-five years after complete modernisation . |