Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been considered a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cow 's milk allergy has hitherto been considered a temporary condition that improves or disappears with age . |
| 2 | This whole question is of importance not only because it was so central to Engels 's book but also because The Origin has rightly been considered a major contribution to the feminist tradition . |
| 3 | Although the cusp has long been considered a well defined spatial structure maintained by continuous reconnection , it has recently been suggested r4–6 that reconnection instead may take place in a series of discontinuous events ; this is the ‘ pulsating cusp model ’ . |
| 4 | The right to demonstrate against unpopular causes has long been considered a bulwark of liberty in any civilised society , enabling groups within that society to attempt to influence public opinion , to express their solidarity , to pressurise government and publicise their cause . |
| 5 | While classics , for example , are considered essentially upper- or upper-middle-class disciplines , engineering ( in this country at any rate ) has long been considered a subject suitable for aspirant working-class men . |
| 6 | Histamine has long been considered a putative mediator of the gastric acid secretory response to ethanol . |
| 7 | The preface adopts a modest tone : ‘ To unite elegance and utility , and blend the useful with the agreeable , has ever been considered a difficult , but an honourable task . ’ |
| 8 | The description and demonstration of the working of such systems has always been considered a major advance in anthropological theory and is usually traced to the publication in 1940 of African Political Systems by M. Fortes and E. E. Evans-Pritchard with their respective discussions of the Tallensi of West Africa and the Nuer of East Africa . |
| 9 | The NHS has always been considered a ‘ good buy ’ internationally in terms of administrative costs , and although precise comparisons are not possible , clearly remains so , certainly when compared with the 24.1% calculated for the United States . |
| 10 | Hand-loom weaving has always been considered a male artisan activity , with the concession that wives from time to time might assist their husbands at the cottage loom . |
| 11 | The government on March 14 , 1990 , reached agreement with the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) on a second structural adjustment programme ; Congo 's first such programme , initiated in 1985 [ see p. 34406 ] , had not been considered a success . |
| 12 | For another it was learning French at evening classes when she had always been considered a complete duffer at languages . |
| 13 | But within months the recession arrived and what had originally been considered a financially sound decision turned out to be an economic disaster . |
| 14 | Richard North , a local environmental health officer who has been advising the nuns , said that contamination of eggs through the shell via the faeces had never been considered a serious risk either by the working party who had submitted evidence to the Select Committee on Salmonella in Eggs , or by the Public Health Service Laboratories . |