Example sentences of "been [verb] as [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ancient sites have traditionally been recognized as the haunts of beings or entities from worlds other than the everyday . |
| 2 | It is true that these original objectives and policies of particular types of union concerning the labour and product markets of the relevant occupation and industry have subsequently been modified as the unions amalgamated or became more diversified in terms of their recruitment . |
| 3 | And indeed he has been nominated as the centrists ' candidate in the presidential election due in 1996 ( but likely to be held earlier ) . |
| 4 | A number from the famous Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale of western Canada are so strange that they have even been claimed as the representatives of ‘ extinct phyla ’ . |
| 5 | Inter-company loans had been made as the exigencies of the business required . |
| 6 | The fragmentary remains from Eccles have been interpreted as the figures of two gladiators , although , in light of the subjects of other figural designs in Britain ( see below ) , this might also have been a hunting scene ( or could have been of figures other than gladiators ; see the drawing of Cupids as gladiators : pI . |
| 7 | A community leader had to be removed from the area under police escort when it was alleged that she had been used as a police informer . |
| 8 | Between the house and the barn is the smallest of the three buildings which has been reconstructed as a cattle byre ( animal house ) . |
| 9 | Mr Chaskalson has long been known as a human-rights lawyer defending people charged under South Africa 's apartheid and terrorism laws . |
| 10 | It was made explicit by the inclusion in those Conventions of the famous provision in the Preamble which has been known as the Martens clause . |
| 11 | The Chipmunk is also of interest , its previous identity suggesting it was recently acquired from the MoD but not so — it is an ex Army Air Corps example that was sold many years ago after storage at Kemble and has been kept as a spares source at the gliding site at Currock Hill , Northumberland , for at least fifteen years . |
| 12 | A research and advice centre on plant diseases on pests , it has been described as a doctors ' surgery for farmers . |
| 13 | Less extreme examples can be found in any street or office , and there is a move among women to make the best of ‘ prime-time ’ , a phase which has been described as the years between 35 and 60 , the time when a woman can capitalize on her experience , energy , and maturity . |
| 14 | I had been working as a dai ( midwife ) for the Government since 1974 , but I resigned when they stopped paying my salary and only paid me if I brought in patients to be sterilized . |
| 15 | Many small towns in rural areas have been chosen as the sites of branch plants because they have ready supplies of labour which ( drawing on low female activity rates ) is flexible , is relatively cheap , and has little tradition of trade unionism . |