Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I popped in to see what the form was , and to find out if I 'd been fired as a house-sitter . |
| 2 | I left before the tour was over because it was time for Mott The Hoople to come and tour and I 'd been designated as the person to take care of them , so I went off before it was over . |
| 3 | Soon after that , I was fortunate enough to obtain a research studentship at U.C.L. which paid me a small salary of 750 per annum — this was slightly less than what I had been earning as a teacher , but it enabled me to return full-time to research at U.C.L. The money for the studentship had been provided by a television network , ATN . |
| 4 | What I experienced as I fell on my knees was a metaphor — I saw the technological society into which I had been born as a Frankenstein body from which the spirit was missing . |
| 5 | I had been enrolled as a student at Canterbury before I went to Cambridge ; during the next four years I was visited by missionaries home on leave from Burma , though nothing definite was said . |
| 6 | Foolishly , I had not bothered to carry out any of the psychic protective techniques I had been taught as a ‘ probationer healer ’ at a school of esoteric studies . |
| 7 | I had or had had cancer — a most serious disease — yet I had been talking as if it was all a joke . |
| 8 | One of the main reasons why I joined the 1990 rebel tour to South Africa was my disappointment with the way I had been used as an England spinner in the previous couple of years . |
| 9 | I had been working as a dai ( midwife ) for the Government since 1974 , but I resigned when they stopped paying my salary and only paid me if I brought in patients to be sterilized . |
| 10 | With him , well for some reason he does n't like us , well , you say I was thinking , I 've been thinking as you know this is the sort of thing that I , gets on to my mind , but I was thinking to myself well really and truly we are so honest people ourselves , we do n't go round you know and screw sort of fiddling things , I suppose it comes to hard to us when we discover other people have |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been coming as a mere visitor . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been doing as you suggested the other day — putting the patients first . ’ |
| 13 | What I am most conscious of is that I have been regarded as a controversial figure : until the age of sixty I was seen either as a subversive or as an enfant terrible . |
| 14 | Unfortunately I have been diagnosed as a sufferer of ‘ loyalistus onehundredpercentus . ’ |
| 15 | I have been described as many things , but that is the first time I have been described as a tourist attraction . |
| 16 | Beck , who has signed a two-year roll-on contract , said : ‘ I have been labelled as a certain type of manager with a certain method in mind . |
| 17 | Although I have been billed as a " computer man " — I have been employed in the computer marketing and services side of IBM for 17 years — for over half this time I have been a line manager . |
| 18 | ‘ I HAVE been portrayed as some sort of tyrant landlady . |
| 19 | In some countries HIS have been developed as part of strengthening health management ( SHM ) moves . |
| 20 | She has been regarded as a patron saint of hares ever since . |
| 21 | However , Sally Kuenssberg , a specialist in children 's panel training in the department of adult and continuing education , says that she has been appointed as an individual with experience of the needs of children . |
| 22 | She has been acclaimed as the greatest Canadian painter of the century , while her four books are said to have reached new heights of perception and understanding in the annals of Canadian literature . |
| 23 | Indeed , she has been described as one of the founders of modern British geography . |
| 24 | She has been denounced as a bad influence on young girls ( who adore her ) , and Pepsi cancelled her commercials . |
| 25 | She has been working as a nurse practitioner on a general surgical firm at the Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust since August . |
| 26 | Lately she has been working as a $10-an-hour dresser at local fashion shows and answering phones at an aerobics studio . |
| 27 | She has been hailed as the pioneer of a literary genre for the '90s : the ‘ Aga Saga ’ . |
| 28 | Have you ever felt you 've been judged as a woman first and a musician second ? |
| 29 | Yeah there 's the price it 's size it 's this product you know the reason we 're phone you because you 've been identified as by the estate agent or medical practice or school as being very suitable and they would very much like you to support this . |
| 30 | She also toyed with a book she had been given as a Christmas present , In Tune With The Infinite by Ralph Waldo Trine . |