Example sentences of "[been] [adv] [vb pp] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The present leasehold system affects an estimated three million owners and has been widely condemned as unfair and archaic . |
| 2 | Rushdie 's book The Satanic Verses had been widely condemned as blasphemous by the Moslem community . |
| 3 | a ‘ cultural heritage ’ view emphasises the responsibility of schools to lead children to an appreciation of those works of literature that have been widely regarded as amongst the finest in the language ; |
| 4 | He replaced a health minister who had been widely regarded as extremely successful in increasing access to health services through the introduction of Medicare . |
| 5 | However , as the sole candidate and with the very high rate of abstention ( only 28.28 per cent of voters turned out ) , his presidency had been widely regarded as lacking in legitimacy . |
| 6 | This becomes clearer if it is considered from the more general perspective of post-modernism which has been widely characterized as involving a return of history , albeit as a category of representation . |
| 7 | It has been widely criticized as inequitable , because all those who are not exempt pay the same rate , regardless of income . |
| 8 | The target has been widely criticized as too low . |
| 9 | The growth of executive power at the expense of legislative authority has been widely recognized as another feature of capitalism affecting bureaucracy , especially as capitalism moves through its monopoly phase , or as the class struggle intensifies and threatens the process of capital accumulattion . |
| 10 | On Exmoor , management agreements have generally worked to stem losses of moor to agricultural development but the annual , index-linked compensation payments have been widely criticised as providing money to prevent a change which is not in the national interest to begin with . |
| 11 | The Huyghes ' administration of the museum , which had an average of only fifteen to twenty visitors a day , has been widely criticised as dusty , to say the least , the heavy-handedness and the sheer malice of the campaign against them may be due to clan warfare within the Institut de France and may also have political roots Jean-Paul Scarpitta , for example , was a personal friend of Président Mitterrand 's wife Danièle . |
| 12 | But the Quebec offer has been widely criticised as inadequate . |
| 13 | This has been widely criticised as failing to provide for the development of a coherent energy policy to take account of environmental and other considerations such as events in the Gulf . |
| 14 | Although proposed by the UN 's International Law Commission , the idea has been widely criticised as legally unsound and practically unworkable . |
| 15 | The nasal-directed response in young infants has been widely interpreted as reflecting a functional crossed pathway , direct to the NOT , with the temporal-directed response depending on later maturation of an uncrossed pathway through binocular cortical neurons . |
| 16 | From within the movement , the publication of the Macdonald Report on the tragic events at Burnage High School has been widely interpreted as signalling the failure of the antiracist project in education . |
| 17 | The purpose of his investigation has been widely interpreted as being partly to ‘ get to the truth ’ and partly to assuage public opinion . |
| 18 | It had been widely denounced as disastrous both for the environment and the local Auyu forest people , whose traditional lands would be devastated [ see ED 46 for a detailed account of the project ] . |
| 19 | If FMS is installed on your system ( ie. it was already installed , or it has been successfully installed as described in Section 1.4 ) then these parameters do not require to be modified . |
| 20 | Rather more realistically , perhaps , the behemoth has been latterly identified as either the hippopotamus or rhinoceros . |
| 21 | It is not used in the more restricted sense given to the term " trade secrets " in Faccenda Chicken v Fowler [ 1985 ] 1 All ER 724 but which has now been effectively viewed as being too narrow by two members of the Court of Appeal in Lansing Linde Ltd v Kerr [ 1991 ] 1 All ER 418 : see p82 below , we think the approach in Lansing Linde is to be preferred . |
| 22 | In April 1991 Aung San Suu Kyi , who had been under house arrest since July 1989 , had been effectively removed as NLD general secretary [ see p. 38151 ] . |
| 23 | Mark 's wishes could n't have been better fulfilled as she ended up in a small tourist camp in Kanha National Park . |
| 24 | In the instant case the IT were entitled to find that it was not reasonably practicable for Mr Sen to have presented his unfair dismissal claim in time , notwithstanding that he had been given erroneous advice about the time limit by a solicitor in circumstances where he had also been wrongly advised as to the time limit by a member of the IT staff . |
| 25 | Anna had been suddenly struck as she pushed open Pricewell 's double glass doors , by the ‘ Vacancy ’ notice pasted to the inside of it . |
| 26 | When applications that year were made , Lauda and others were smart enough to realize that the licences had been so designed as to tie them to their teams , a move cleverly designed by certain constructors to lower the price war among drivers and to prevent desertions in the ranks . |
| 27 | Princes Street limes have been especially selected as replacement trees , paid for by the town trustees . |
| 28 | And the telephone calls , the forty five ninety two , they have n't effectively been paid yet , but they are included in the result presumably this has n't er been finally settled as regards the cash but this is the result . |
| 29 | Even before the revolution , however , and particularly under Tudor rule , the Privy Council had been largely ignored as too large and public a body , and the practice had grown up of the monarch preferring , instead , to seek advice from a smaller number of individuals whom he regarded as trustworthy and committed to his cause . |
| 30 | Economic changes have been generally recognized as being very important , but their influence has been conceived in diverse ways . |