Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patterson had been dismissed as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and Planning in December 1991 after a scandal involving tax waivers for an oil company [ see pp. 38670-71 ] . |
| 2 | Three of them are adults , but rumours that they may be Bosnian soldiers have been dismissed as irrelevent . |
| 3 | Knowles was replaced by Perry Christie , who had been dismissed as Minister of Tourism in 1984 [ see p.33401 ] and subsequently elected as an independent MP . |
| 4 | On Dec. 29 Kibaki , together with John Keen , a former Assistant in the Office of the President , and Eliud Mwamunga , who had been dismissed as Minister of Works , Housing and Physical Planning in 1988 [ see p. 36136 ] announced the launch on Jan. 2 of the Democratic Party . |
| 5 | On Sept. 9 it was announced that the only Romanian Cabinet official of Hungarian nationality , Deputy Minister of Culture Andro Horvath , had been dismissed as part of an efficiency drive . |
| 6 | A month after the wedding , he had lost the municipal election at Shoreditch and been dismissed as Director of Propaganda by Mosley . |
| 7 | Jagan , 75 , once a hardline Stalinist , had first led the PPP to an election victory in 1953 , in the pre-independence period , but had been dismissed as Leader of the House of Assembly , when the UK government suspended the Constitution in the face of perceived " communist subversion " [ see pp. 13152 ; 13177 ; 13239 ; 13523 ] . |
| 8 | Thousands of the films and publications have been incinerated as part of a year long clampdown on the trade . |
| 9 | As a result , five banks — Midland , Security Pacific National , Chemical Bank , Barclays Bank and Mitsubishi Finance Corporation — have been joined as respondents with the council . |
| 10 | As Counts of Poitou the Dukes had long ruled Poitou and Saintonge , and had been recognized as overlords by the Counts of Angoulême , La Marche and Périgord and by the Viscounts of Limoges . |
| 11 | Similarly , Edward Woodville 's fleet posed a threat to Gloucester only as long as the duke 's own position was uncertain ; once he had been recognized as protector the matter could be dealt with . |
| 12 | Similarly , Edward Woodville 's fleet posed a threat to Gloucester only as long as the duke 's own position was uncertain ; once he had been recognized as protector the matter could be dealt with . |
| 13 | Earlier that evening she had been recognized as Lily Greene by some people staying at Cannes , to whom Lionel was slightly known . |
| 14 | At that time it was officially known as the ‘ Poor Law Institution ’ , although the sick wards there had been distinguished as St. Peter 's Hospital for some years . |
| 15 | This included £329,000 to Iroquois , covering fees over the four-and-a-half months that he chaired Eagle , £33,000 to Iroquois ' lawyer and two blank cheques for £250,000 presented to Richard Smith and Clive Whiley , who had just been sacked as directors of Eagle . |
| 16 | But last night other umpires stressed that Oslear had not been sacked as chairman because of his battle to support Lamb . |
| 17 | Valuation problems are exacerbated when privatisation has been undertaken as part of a wider adjustment to outward-looking policies . |
| 18 | The answer is none of these things have been undertaken as strategies for the church . |
| 19 | The Princesse presided at one end , while Thomas had been placed as guest of honour at the other . |
| 20 | Where income such as an occupational pension or Retirement Pension is paid into a bank or building society account on , for example , a monthly or four-weekly basis , in some cases this has been treated as capital resulting in a possible reduction of benefit . |
| 21 | Pornography is not , as Dworkin ( 1981 ) suggests it is , the main causal agent of women 's subordination , because it is merely one case of a phenomenon that is commonplace : women have been treated as objects throughout history . |
| 22 | Not only had most manorial demesnes been let to farm well before the beginning of the Tudor epoch , small freeholds and customary tenements were also regularly managed in the same fashion — indeed , they must frequently have been treated as investments . |
| 23 | Although parrots have been treated as seed predators , they are not always so , for they appear to be the principal dispersal agents of seeds of several species of Parkia ( Leguminosae ) in the Neotropics as , well as certain Lecythidaceae there , even though they are partly destructive . |
| 24 | " Thousand " and " hundred " have been treated as numerals and added together . |
| 25 | As a result far too many people emerge from their doctor , lawyer or bank manager feeling that they have not had a fair deal and have been treated as children rather than as adults who know their own mind . |
| 26 | They have been treated as people who did not know what they were doing , have made some terrible mistake and are wasting their lives . |
| 27 | These investments have therefore been treated as cash equivalents in preparing the cash flow statement reflecting the liquid nature of the investments . |
| 28 | In an article originally published in 1964 , Laing describes similar voyages into ‘ inner space ’ often recounted by people who have been diagnosed as schizophrenics . |
| 29 | Prejean , who had once been diagnosed as brain damaged and mentally retarded , said shortly before his execution : ‘ I do n't ask to get out of prison . |
| 30 | I have no doubt that he would have been diagnosed as NSU today and treated accordingly . |