Example sentences of "[noun] have been [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then the building has been used as a village hall for the local community but still belongs to the Herons Trust . |
| 2 | One reason why farm workers ' wages remain so comparatively low is that the demand for labour within agriculture has been declining as a result of mechanization-Indeed , the prospect of more expensive labour has often been sufficient to stimulate farmers to engage in a further round of mechanization so that both the supply and the demand for labour have chased each other down in an ever-decreasing spiral . |
| 3 | There is even a list of offices which claims that a dux was in charge of twelve civitates , but although this text has been seen as a Merovingian document , it is almost certainly a school-book , originating perhaps in the British Isles . |
| 4 | Much Wealden woodland has been managed as coppice , often in combination with standard trees , principally oak . |
| 5 | On other occasions a high settlement has been desired as part of a strategy of political alliances . |
| 6 | Health ‘ disaster ’ : A plan by the Northern Regional Health Authority to merge Hartlepool and North Tees Health Authorities has been attacked as ‘ a potential disaster ’ by Hartlepool prospective Labour candidate Peter Mandelson . |
| 7 | In social science , this has meant that women have been virtually ignored , except as they related to men , and that the male has been seen as the norm . |
| 8 | Since then a huge influence on sicko rockers everywhere , the whole gory story has been re-cast as a full-blown opera — The Manson Family . |
| 9 | what monitoring systems should be put in place to assess whether more efficient health care provision has been secured as a result of the White Paper ? |
| 10 | The debate over academic freedom has been structured as if attaining academic freedom is part of a zero-sum game . |
| 11 | Whilst this decision has been criticised as a " narrow " interpretation of the law ( ibid ) , our examination of the nature of casual working and the characteristics of the casual labour force in the hotels and catering sector raises the question of whether according casual workers employee status , and thus bringing them within the coverage of employment protection legislation , would be of any great relevance . |
| 12 | The NRA 's decision has been welcomed as an example of the precautionary principle being put into practice . |
| 13 | Many possible measures might be used ( Brown and Yule , 1983 ) , but following Garvey 's lead with younger children ( Garvey , 1979 ) , the distribution and pattern of clarification requests has been used as a starting point . |
| 14 | Hall criticizes the flimsy evidence on which , for example , Newton has been depicted as a member of an active alchemical coterie at Cambridge , supposedly including Barrow , the Lucasian professor whom he was to succeed , and Henry More , the Platonist philosopher . |
| 15 | Van Der Meulen has been characterised as a good explorer rather than as a great one . |
| 16 | The change has been adopted as a prior year adjustment , so pre-tax profits for 1991/92 are £4.3m lower and for 1990/91 , on a restated basis , £3.8m lower . |
| 17 | Traditionally this change has been seen as an aspect of progress , fuelled by humanitarian ideals . |
| 18 | HOUSTON — The Offshore Division has been named as the recipient of the 1992 BP America President 's Safety Award . |
| 19 | Thus certain states of Nigeria such as Bendel and Oyo States have curriculum units within Ministry Planning Divisions while under the latest reorganisation in Ghana , the Curriculum Development Division has been established as one of the divisions in the Ghana Education Service . |
| 20 | ALTHOUGH Mr David Mellor 's new role as Secretary for National Heritage has been caricatured as Minister of Fun or Minister for Free Tickets , he was at pains yesterday to emphasise more serious aspects of his task ahead . |
| 21 | FORMER Middlesbrough and Northern Ireland international Terry Cochrane has been named as the new manager of South Bank . |
| 22 | Such a payment has been treated as a gift : see Maskell v. Horner [ 1915 ] 3 K.B . |
| 23 | Care must be taken over the signs of relationships , specifying which category has been selected as the base for comparison ( see section 8.2 ) . |
| 24 | It would seem that the direction in which it will be refined is to move towards a system more or less completely based on unit costs , or common funding , and that the element of further funding has been included as a temporary measure to allow high cost institutions to adjust to the new system . |
| 25 | The Vocational Access Certificate has been designed as a preliminary vocational qualification for those with special training needs . |
| 26 | Ever since its own time this parliament has been known as the ‘ Good Parliament ’ ; it has been thoroughly analysed by modern historians , and the Anonimalle Chronicle of St Mary 's Abbey , York , preserves an account of the deliberations amongst the commons which surpasses in its detail any other surviving account of the debates in a fourteenth-century parliament . |
| 27 | Alternatively the cleanliness of the pit base has been viewed as an indication that the pit had plank floors at ground level . |
| 28 | The deficit has been reducing as a percentage of GDP . |
| 29 | But this goes against all trade union traditions : invoking laws and the courts has been seen as an infringement of worker 's freedom of action and power of collective bargaining . |
| 30 | This has been most clearly shown for lung tissue but smoking related adducts have also been described in a number of other tissues for which smoking has been implicated as a cancer risk factor . |