Example sentences of "what have [been] [vb pp] an " in BNC.

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1 On overseas government expenditure Attlee fought a campaign with what has been called an ‘ impressive ’ ’ Little Englander' pragmatism' which , however , ran against the rocks of Bevin and the Chiefs of Staff .
2 However , there have been rumblings of discontent at what has been called an unwelcome invasion of American popular culture into the heart of France .
3 In these marriages , work becomes what has been called an ‘ acceptable mistress ’ .
4 Similarly , because of the loss of full housing benefit once a person moves off income support , a large number of unemployed families face what has been called an unemployment trap .
5 Moreover , a basic premise of Dunlop 's prescription for the advancement of knowledge in industrial relations is the need to break away from the restrictive and myopic confines of problem-solving , institutional studies within individual countries — what has been termed an ‘ ethno-centric ’ bias — in favour of broader comparisons over the course of time and across countries .
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