Example sentences of "it have be [verb] as " in BNC.

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1 While both the philosophical and sociological responses to Mannheim 's work was critical and did not exactly embrace the sociology of knowledge as an exciting new project , it has been recognized as a promising new area for development .
2 It has been implicated as a causative factor in both psychological and physical disease .
3 It has been noted as a common error in response to ratio and proportion questions , but its incidence is much influenced by the numbers in the questions and particularly by context ( Bell , APU ) .
4 Non-availability is an idea deeply embedded in the Christian tradition of celibacy ; though for too long now it has been seen as renunciation by men of sinful life , rather than as a radical statement by women .
5 It is a fact that the written essay — usually of 400 to 500 words long — has dominated the English language and literature curriculum for many years because it has been seen as the main vehicle for the transmission of knowledge in written examinations .
6 By pressing actively for the payment of wages monthly instead of weekly , they have supported and contributed to the great growth or worker banking in those countries , where it has been seen as a first step to other ‘ staff status ’ privileges .
7 Since the nineteenth century it has been seen as the cause and ‘ truth ’ of our being .
8 While this system may have been satisfactory when inflation was negligible , it has been seen as more of a disadvantage in recent years .
9 It has been seen as a significant feature of contemporary Britain and has been variously offered as a partial explanation of the continuing success of the Conservative party and its socially atypical leadership .
10 It has been understood as ‘ Comforter ’ , ‘ Intercessor ’ , ‘ Interpreter ’ , ‘ Preacher ’ and either ‘ Prosecutor ’ or ‘ Defence Counsel ’ .
11 The company may soon develop a similar property on Duke Street where it has been selected as the preferred developer for vacant properties on the street .
12 Thus , persistent gambling or the squandering of large sums of money upon it has been regarded as a sin .
13 Since the enactment of s 459 1985 , it has been regarded as a better remedy for a minority affected by prejudice in a company to ask for a share purchase order under s 461 rather than to seek a return of share capital through a winding-up petition which results in the liquidation of a solvent company ( a member can not petition under s 122(1) ( g ) if the company is insolvent because he has no interest ) .
14 Mrs Clinton , the new First Lady , has supported the magazine since it was founded in the United States in 1972 , where it has been regarded as a valuable weapon in the campaign for women 's liberation .
15 Up to now it has been run as a cost centre rather than a profit maker , but the Broadcasting Act specified change .
16 It has been romanticized as a tradition of public service when much of it was about the protection of vested interests .
17 Frame Technology Corp , San Jose says it has been named as a defendant in a suit alleging breach of oral and written contract with respect to sums allegedly owed to Meridian Systems Inc , which provides sales representative and value-added reseller services ; Frame said the suit is without merit and it will be defended vigorously .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 What happens to British examples is unknown , but it has been consumed as a delicacy in Europe and North America for centuries .
21 It has been defined as : ‘ The minimal requirements needed to fill a picture surface meaningfully , whilst combining various materials into forms that usually do not depict anything ’ ( O.E.D. ) .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 It has been reckoned as such in the past , and if the landowners cease to discharge these functions , the time will come to reconsider the conditions under which land is held in this country .
25 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 .
26 It has been adopted as a slogan for assertiveness training programmes for US women managers , for example .
27 Whether or not a reform of this kind will lead , as Sir Keith Joseph maintained , to a general raising of standards of achievement , it has been interpreted as a further encroachment on the part of central government into what is taught and learned in schools .
28 More recently , it has been interpreted as a congenital anomaly related to defective arterial involution .
29 Unemployed single teenagers are particularly likely to have children ; it has been suggested as a ‘ short cut ’ to adult status ( Penhale 1989 ) .
30 The Whitebred/Welsh Black cross is known as the Blue Albion and from time to time it has been classified as a separate breed .
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