Example sentences of "[vb -s] be [verb] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent years , radon has been recognised as the main source of human exposure to ionising radiation . |
| 2 | Observation of one of these signs — cyclical changes in cervical mucus — has been developed as the basis of a method capable of anticipating ovulation . |
| 3 | LIVERPOOL 'S Irish Sea trade has been strengthened as the port 's Coastal Container Line links in to the most modern container terminal in Britain . |
| 4 | JIM HAY , Hawick 's Scotland ‘ B ’ hooker , has been appointed as the Scottish Sports Council 's Team Sport coordinator for rugby . |
| 5 | A black has been appointed as the city 's new police chief . |
| 6 | Martin Brookes has been appointed as the new chairman and succeeds Charlie Jones , who drops to vice chairman . |
| 7 | Paul Prescott , ScotRail 's planning and marketing manager , has been appointed as the Railtrack zonal director for Scotland . |
| 8 | While it may not now be possible fully to recover their critique of mass culture from the totalizing force of its own negative rhetoric , it is at least possible to regret the ease with which it has been adopted as the convenient apostasy of a new rhetoric , operating as a kind of semaphore , signalling correct positions across great distances with a simplified and purely functional code . |
| 9 | For this reason , the poppy has been adopted as the flower of remembrance , and a shower of poppies , representing British and Commonwealth fighting men who have died since 1914 , is released at the annual service of remembrance in the Albert Hall , London . |
| 10 | Technopol Eryri Cyf/Snowdonia Technopole Ltd has been adopted as the name of a holding company to formalise the partnership . |
| 11 | Robert Goodwill , of Richmond , has been adopted as the Conservative candidate . |
| 12 | Robert Goodwill , of Richmond , has been adopted as the Conservative candidate . |
| 13 | Robert Goodwill , of Richmond , has been adopted as the Conservative candidate . |
| 14 | Fat droplet accumulation in acinar cells has been observed as the earliest morphologic alteration in the pancreas of alcoholics . |
| 15 | Sometimes ‘ might is right ’ has been accepted as a legitimate form of political power , whereas at other times and in different societies hereditary succession has been accepted as the legitimate source of political power . |
| 16 | British government has been accepted as the product of the collected wisdom of many generations , indeed of many centuries . |
| 17 | Ricardou has been credited as the instigator of this development , although his contribution to the nouveau roman was principally to articulate and systematize this new aesthetic . |
| 18 | Chemical compound benomyl , used by farmers , has been indicated as the possible culprit . |
| 19 | The St John 's Ambulance station on the sea front at Seaton Carew has been earmarked as the site of a new tourist information centre . |
| 20 | Pavlovo has been earmarked as the ideal Russian town for Darlington to twin with and borough councillors will consider the idea on February 27 . |
| 21 | That has been achieved as the direct result of the enthusiasm and support of key business and community leaders throughout the country . |
| 22 | The attempt to line up our thinking with what has been perceived as the most powerful of the current orthodoxies has certainly brought about a number of structural changes to the PGCE course the most important of which to affect the modern language group has undoubtedly been the decision to replace the single teaching practice in the spring term by two teaching practices , the first in the autumn and the second in the summer term . |
| 23 | The new colour — Chablis — has been unveiled as the perfect shade for the 1990s . |
| 24 | Over the past decade , digestive enzyme activation by lysosomal hydrolases ( particularly cathepsin B ) has been implicated as the initial event in three forms of experimental pancreatitis . |
| 25 | The Catering Industry Group ( CIG ) has been relaunched as the Catering Arena . |
| 26 | To add to his case , John Holloway has been revealed as the chairman of a company which was fined £45,000 in 1990 after making false declarations in connection with applications for vehicle excise licences . |
| 27 | But maybe the offer is refused because the kitchen sink has been enthroned as the living nerve-centre of the home , and to abandon it is to lose the right to be considered worthy and hard-working ; she who washes the dishes puts everybody else under an obligation . |
| 28 | The major claim is a claim which has been expressed as the claim of de-coupling . |
| 29 | ‘ Metaphysics ’ has been defined as the attempt by a blind man in a dark room to find a black hat which is n't there . |
| 30 | Such a unit of goodness has been defined as the result of the slightest favourable evolutionary change that could occur . |