Example sentences of "have been [verb] as a " in BNC.

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1 FORMER Mr Universe Terry Phillips , 53 , has been elected as a Conservative councillor in Knowsley , Merseyside .
2 And it will mark society 's rejection of the morally indefensible promotion of addiction to what for at least 30 years has been recognised as a most dangerous drug .
3 In gaining the title university , Napier has been recognised as a leader in higher education .
4 From the Bypass east to the city limits , the A71 has been built as a dual carriageway , 7.3 metres wide .
5 When the original object of a wishful impulse has been lost as a result of repression , it is frequently represented by an endless series of substitute objects none of which , however , brings full satisfaction ’ ( vii .
6 The shaded area between the actual time-series and the trend line in Fig. 3.1 is called the output gap and is a reflection of the output of goods and services which has been lost as a result of the unemployment .
7 EMC Corp , Hopkinton , Massachusetts has sold more than $10m-worth of 4800 Symmetrix Integrated Cached Disk Array storage devices to Delta Air Lines , Atlanta , Georgia : Delta previously used IBM Corp kit exclusively , namely 3380s , 3880s , 3090s and 3990s , but has been replacing them with Symmetrix 4400 and 4800 systems since November 1991 ; EMC claims that 15,000 square feet of floor space has been saved as a result ; it also attests to a 50% performance improvement over cached 3380s for reservation systems running on IBM 's 3090 Model 400 , a performance increase of between 30% and 50% with Airline Control Program and a performance boost of 30% to 40% with MVS , running off Hitachi Ltd EX 100s .
8 The first in a new generation of colours , it has been developed as a result of Armitage Shanks ' research in to the tastes of today 's consumers .
9 Although the work has medical and therapeutic origins , it has been developed as a regular part of the Medau method of physical education and is intended for people of any age who are in normal health .
10 Though the issue no longer commands the same urgency it did immediately after Tiananmen , ‘ right of abode ’ has been adopted as a cause by a wide variety of business and professional lobby groups .
11 These have grown in number very rapidly in recent years as renewing the attractiveness of the centre through environmental improvement , including pedestrianisation , has been adopted as a competitive response to the growth of out-of-town shopping .
12 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 .
13 It has been adopted as a slogan for assertiveness training programmes for US women managers , for example .
14 It is understood that no one has been injured as a result of the nurse 's alleged actions .
15 For instance , you can build up a design that looks as though it has been pressed as a single spray ( see pp. 98–9 ) , although in fact each flower and leaf should be positioned with care to give a natural effect .
16 Van Der Meulen has been characterised as a good explorer rather than as a great one .
17 So far , the state has been characterised as a structure — as part of the political instance , integrated into the whole structured in dominance .
18 Nonetheless , the jurisdiction to relist , albeit extraordinary and confined , has been characterised as a necessary concomitant of the statutory scheme instituted by the 1968 Act , under which both courts operate .
19 Greta Garbo , I read , has been reborn as a cat .
20 This is by no means the first time that national security has been raised as a defence in legal proceedings against the Crown .
21 A raised serum CRP has been explored as a prognostic index to define high risk patients and predict the course of the disease .
22 Since last summer , Controll has been acting as a dealer for Hewlett-Packard Co , Compaq Computer Corp and Philips Electronics NV .
23 This final criticism amounts to the challenge that Sartre 's history can only ever be theorized as totalization insofar as it has been conceptualized as a synchronic form .
24 There is one other country that has been floated as a serious contender — Japan .
25 In this climate , the idea of planning gain has been floated as a means of reconciling development and conservation by making a ‘ green ’ component , such a nature reserve , a necessary condition for permitting a development scheme to go ahead .
26 then went on to distinguish the case of a party ‘ deprived of his title as a result of a forged document which he did not execute ’ from the case where the party ‘ has been deprived as a result of a document which he himself executed , albeit under a mistake induced by fraud ’ and commented that ‘ when the court comes to exercise its discretion , different considerations may well apply . ’
27 It is therefore not surprising that the provision of apparatus ( both large and small ) , toys and games , has been accepted as a necessity .
28 Judging by the ratings , David Jason the comedy star has been accepted as a serious actor .
29 Newly independent Croatia has been accepted as a provisional member of the International Tennis Federation .
30 Since the 1950s an association between low school attainment , the problems of classroom discipline , and delinquency has been accepted as a male , white and predominantly working class phenomenon .
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