Example sentences of "he [verb] been [verb] as " in BNC.
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1 | But when he has been exposed as a liar and a traitor , left alone on stage , Shakespeare allows him to end the scene with a soliloquy in verse : . |
2 | Since leaving school , he has been employed as a draughtsman and this is his only source of finance for his habit . |
3 | There is general agreement that Balder was not exactly a dynamic deity — indeed , he has been described as ‘ a passive suffering figure ’ . |
4 | He has been described as a caring individual . |
5 | He has been described as a right-handed David Gower . |
6 | Grampian Police say he has been identified as a Northfield resident but his name is being withheld . |
7 | He has been established as a prose-character in the first scene at Achilles ' tent ( Troilus and Cressida , II.i. ) , where even Agamemnon addressed him in prose , by the law of adaptation to the lower centre of gravity . |
8 | And indeed he has been nominated as the centrists ' candidate in the presidential election due in 1996 ( but likely to be held earlier ) . |
9 | It went to Geoffrey 's head that he 'd been cast as Mullins , the pirate . |
10 | He laughed , and then added that he 'd been drunk as a cork himself actually , the night before . |
11 | But it was after the war , when Magnus had driven the enemy from the land and he 'd been hailed as the new Emperor , that he performed what was to be his most significant act . |
12 | He would he 'd been identified as a character that was at least stirring up trouble , but gradually this filtered through to the authorities . |
13 | The firebombing of the Sherman & Grant office premises had underlined the lesson , while taking care of the possibility that the elder one may have kept the severed finger he had been sent as a warning . |
14 | He saw the age into which he had been born as a civilisation in decline , and said so . |
15 | Walter Pater was a master of atmosphere ; he had been inspired as a young man by Ruskin , and his idealism about art and his fine prose were in turn much admired by a younger generation of aesthetes , among whom Oscar Wilde was a prominent figure . |
16 | Also on June 9 , immediately after the close of polls , Jan Budaj , Deputy Chairman of the Slovak National Council ( parliament ) and a leading PAV candidate for the Council , announced that he was withdrawing his candidacy , saying that he had been registered as a collaborator with the StB in the 1970s . |
17 | He had been earmarked as a potential leader , in 1979 , by winning the Oloman-Ellis Award , which the National Council of Social Workers with the Deaf inaugurated in 1977 to commemorate the lives of two of their most distinguished members , Robert Stavers Oloman of York and Joseph Ellis of Stoke-on-Trent . |
18 | Half of the salary disappeared in mess fees and for the headquarter 's servants , but Sharpe still felt rich , and it was a far better reward than the two shillings and ninepence a day that he had been receiving as a half-pay lieutenant . |
19 | ( In 1910 he had been elected as Henley 's Member of Parliament ) . |
20 | He had been elected as an opposition Jatiya Party member of the Jatiya Sangsad ( parliament ) in February [ see pp. 38006-07 ] , but was expected to forfeit this office if he lost his appeal . |
21 | He had been exposed as a secret police informer under the ousted communist regime , although he insisted that his activities had been confined to reporting on foreign visitors to Sofia 's Natural History Museum ( where he had been a department head ) and on his visits abroad for scientific research ; he categorically denied that he had ever informed on dissidents . |
22 | Dr Hadley , who had asked the questions , ceased to play with the two-toned ball pen he had been using as a remote muscle of his tongue . |
23 | The jangling of his friend 's bells and chains , which he had been using as an aid for navigation , had ceased abruptly . |
24 | Souza 's commitments were no doubt the more complicated because he had been raised as a Catholic , and had been taught that the eroticism of Hindu religious philosophy was wicked . |
25 | The Guests returned Dali 's portrait of their son , Alexander , feeling that he had been painted as a Velázquez menino . |
26 | Throughout his lifetime he had been regarded as an excellently scientific psychologist who had shown that the level of a child 's intelligence has little to do with the child 's home environment ; instead it is a product of the intelligences of the child 's parents . |
27 | Since his youth he had been perceived as a likeable man . |
28 | More recently he had been seen as an impediment to the resolution of the continuing ethnically based dispute with Senegal , in the course of which at least 40,000 black Mauritanian nationals had been forcibly expelled by the Mauritanian authorities [ see pp. 36579-80 ; 36840 ] . |
29 | She was shrewd enough to understand that the way he had been treated as a child would give him the added drive and determination to better himself . |
30 | His listeners heard all the details of Oliver 's illegitimate birth , and how generously he had been treated as a workhouse orphan . |