Example sentences of "[adv] have been [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has even been darkly insinuated by Paolucci ( in Beccaria , 1963 ) that he may merely have been used as a front by his radical friends , the Verri brothers , who were too much in trouble with the authorities at the time to risk writing it themselves |
| 2 | Although it hardly seemed to notice the Hooligan affair , and its only immediate response was a front-page poem ‘ Hot Weather and Crime ’ which can only have been intended as a slap in the face for The Times leader on ‘ The Weather and the Streets ’ : The message was clear enough : if it took crime and violence to attract the attention of the mighty to the lives of the poor , then so be it . |
| 3 | With the decline in the herring fishing , followed by a complete ban on all herring catching in an endeavour to build up stocks again , the pelagic catchers turned their attentions to mackerel which hitherto had been despised as food in the North of Scotland . |
| 4 | Charles 's territories could already have been described as an empire , in the sense that he ruled over a collection of different political units held together by the allegiance his subjects felt they owed him rather than through a sense of common institutions or common language which could serve as the foundation for a unifying national spirit . |
| 5 | The five facets identified above have been used as the basis for a standard citation order , that is PMEST . |
| 6 | Sex is clearly an essential determinant of the relationship called marriage , because it is and always has been recognized as the union of man and woman . |
| 7 | Schick ( 1972 p. 16 ) states that ‘ budgeting always has been conceived as a process for systematically relating expenditure of funds to the accomplishment of planned objectives ’ . |
| 8 | Like getting wrapped up in the Masai , getting wrapped up in Indirect Rule was not inherently a passive occupation ; it seems in retrospect extraordinary that something to which so much energy was in fact devoted should ever have been perceived as a sign of imperial decrepitude . |
| 9 | But here was a youth so far ahead of his time that if he had turned up on the streets of London sixty or seventy years later , he would still have been recognised as a sure sign of an alarmingly unrivalled degeneration among the young . |
| 10 | ‘ L'Etat c'est moi ’ was a shrewd remark , but can hardly have been intended as a definition even in the France of the time . |
| 11 | There are unlikely to be any Scottish Conservative Back Benchers either , not only because there are so few of them but because none of them has participated in this debate , apart from a brief intervention by the hon. and learned member for Perth and Kinross ( Sir N. Fairbairn ) that could hardly have been described as serious participation . |
| 12 | One has to concede that successive Conservative Governments have accepted rulings from Brussels on , for example , social policy , the regulation of working practices and the straight-forward geographical reallocation of wealth which it would be hard to imagine ever having been proposed as part of a domestic Conservative programme . |
| 13 | Piggy is short-sighted ; and the spectacles he would have been prescribed for this condition could not possibly have been used as burning glasses . |
| 14 | The Thalidomide drug may once have been described as God 's gift to expectant mothers . |
| 15 | I would not forsake ye , I would not forsake you for sweetest of scenes : For sweetest of gardens that nature could make me I would not forsake ye , dear valleys and greens : Tho' Nature ne'er dropped ye a cloud-resting mountain , Nor waterfalls tumble their music so free , Had Nature denied ye a bush , tree , or fountain , Ye still had been loved as an Eden by me . |
| 16 | For example , there was relatively little leisure-time involvement by husbands with their mates but considerable participation in what traditionally has been regarded as women 's work , especially child-rearing . |
| 17 | This is because , under FRS 3 , one-off items that would formerly have been classified as extraordinary will now be treated as ordinary and eps will , in any case , be calculated after extraordinary items . |
| 18 | It was identified as such only a short while after Delta Cephei itself , and if it had been found a few months earlier the short-period stars would probably have been known as Aquilids rather than Cepheids . |
| 19 | The Soviet initiative on the Gulf may also have been conceived as an inducement for the key countries of the Persian Gulf and the Arab world to take measures to limit Western military involvement in the region . |
| 20 | Like other powerful English rulers , he may also have been recognised as overlord by the Welsh and Scots , and possibly some of the Irish . |
| 21 | If allies were able to provide the necessities of life , primitive valuables could have acted as a medium of exchange ; primitive valuables may also have been used as a means of contracting alliances as may marriages between members of different political groups . |
| 22 | Kiraly had been sitting as an independent member of the Országgyülés ( National Assembly ) , having first been elected in 1985 as a radical member of the then ruling Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party ( HSWP ) . |
| 23 | At Cultoon there is a deep narrow dale in which there is a den that probably had been used as a human habitation . |
| 24 | R.R. Darlington stressed that the ecclesiastical content of several tenth-century law codes suggests that they originated as the canons of synods. Æthelstan 's first code , for example , and his Ordinance on Charities , both say that they were framed on the advice of Archbishop Wulfhelm of Canterbury and other bishops , and the text known as I Edmund appears from its prologue to be a set of decisions taken purely by the ecclesiastical wing of the witan ( royal council ) ; they may eventually have been issued as a royal decree , but that I Edmund in its surviving form is something other than this is implied by the fifth chapter , which exhorts the king to put churches in order . |
| 25 | Such cases will often have been treated as acute cystitis for a day or two , and may present to the casualty department or emergency room with a bladder so swollen that it mimics a twenty week pregnancy . |
| 26 | There is a bitter twist of irony in these last lines which completely changes the complexion of what might before have been viewed as a sentimental poem . |
| 27 | If the defect had been in a component of the toaster , say the heating element , the result would still be the same unless the heating element had not been supplied as part of the toaster ( e.g. had been bought as a replacement later ) . |
| 28 | Hunting may well have been seen as a pleasurable distraction , but from a practical point of view the bow and arrow is more useful . |
| 29 | In contrast , the plots at Penkridge , which were up to 30 m ( 100 ft ) deep , may well have been employed as gardens or animal pens . |
| 30 | Moreover , it should be noted that according to this distinction the central detail in the Christianson and Loftus ( 1991 ) study might well have been categorized as a peripheral detail . |