Example sentences of "been [verb] as [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having been dismissed as a kitchen maid , she harnesses her poetry to her teapot . |
| 2 | A graduate of Leland , Stanford and Oxford universities , he was a sharp , intelligent man from Detroit , Michigan , who has all too often been dismissed as the maker of low-budget movies which exploited a particular mood or event in time , heavily criticized for their voyeurism . |
| 3 | Most of these signed items had been dismissed as the work of mere copyists of Classical and Hellenistic creations , and even the unusual decorative and free-standing sculpture unearthed in the short-lived excavations undertaken at Aphrodisias itself in 1904-5 ( by Paul Gaudin ) and in 1937 ( by Giulio Jacopi ) failed to excite many experts . |
| 4 | The congress also elected as editor-in-chief of the BCP daily newspaper Rabotnichesko Delo Stefan Prodev , a reformist who in November 1988 had been dismissed as the editor of the newspaper Narodna Kultura for his association with the unofficial Club for the Support of Glasnost and Perestroika in Bulgaria [ see p. 36771 ] . |
| 5 | The reliability and clinical applications of computerised image analysis measurement of bowel uptake of Tc-99m HMPAO labelled leucocytes has been examined as a measure of disease activity in Crohn 's disease . |
| 6 | Mkolongolo alleged in a press statement that the United States ambassador , Smith Hempstone , had been recalled as a result of " misleading information " given him by Muite [ see also p. 38136 ] . |
| 7 | The meeting had originally been scheduled to start on July 1 , but had been delayed as a result of Sri Lanka 's announcement on June 24 that it would not participate because of India 's refusal to agree on the withdrawal of the Indian Peace Keeping Force ( IPKF ) from Sri Lanka by the latter 's deadline of July 29 [ see p. 36735 ] . |
| 8 | Final approval had been delayed as a result of a Spanish-UK disagreement on the rate of tax to be applied to Spanish and British sherry in the UK . |
| 9 | Whereas Prost had been delayed as the Ferrari mechanics fiddled with the right-rear wheel , Senna 's stop went like clockwork . |
| 10 | By 1987 the SLG had been redefined as the Curriculum Review Group ( CRG ) and during 1984–5 had reviewed the 14–16 Curriculum to make it more accessible to all , and in particular to reduce gender and class disadvantages and increase its coherence . |
| 11 | The cheesemaker has the best control over his cheese if he is able to use the milk from his own flock or herd — he then knows exactly what he is getting and where the animals have been grazed as the type of grass and subsoil contributes much to the flavour of the milk and then the cheese . |
| 12 | What had been intended as a warning shot across the government 's bows has sunk a government that had given Poland a year of political continuity , maintained budgetary austerity against populist opposition and taken the first steps on two essential reforms that now go into limbo . |
| 13 | The conviction of Shinto , after a 20-month trial , marked the first occasion on which a court had ruled that the Recruit shares had been intended as a bribe . |
| 14 | Eddie made a harsh sound that could have been intended as a laugh but sounded more like a cry of pain . |
| 15 | ‘ L'Etat c'est moi ’ was a shrewd remark , but can hardly have been intended as a definition even in the France of the time . |
| 16 | The account hovers on the brink of farce , and must surely have been intended as a spine-chiller more analogous to a modern horror film than a literal description of something which was to be believed in . |
| 17 | Its height suggests that it was unlikely to have been intended as a garden sculpture . |
| 18 | Halfway through this advertisement , I started worrying about whether it might not have been intended as a joke . |
| 19 | The place had been intended as a family home , he had told her . |
| 20 | Although it hardly seemed to notice the Hooligan affair , and its only immediate response was a front-page poem ‘ Hot Weather and Crime ’ which can only have been intended as a slap in the face for The Times leader on ‘ The Weather and the Streets ’ : The message was clear enough : if it took crime and violence to attract the attention of the mighty to the lives of the poor , then so be it . |
| 21 | Then , his restoration had been intended as a counterbalance to Warwick 's influence in the north , but in 1471 the Nevilles had been replaced by Gloucester . |
| 22 | Then , his restoration had been intended as a counterbalance to Warwick 's influence in the north , but in 1471 the Nevilles had been replaced by Gloucester . |
| 23 | It should not be used to make good any cuts that have been sustained as a result of falling rolls , ratecapping , etc . |
| 24 | First , April Ashley should have been recognized as a female . |
| 25 | In all , it seems that Leapor has , at last , been recognized as a poet worthy of serious consideration . |
| 26 | Sex is clearly an essential determinant of the relationship called marriage , because it is and always has been recognized as the union of man and woman . |
| 27 | Ancient sites have traditionally been recognized as the haunts of beings or entities from worlds other than the everyday . |
| 28 | The apparent existence of an economically unproductive residuum of social outcasts has been traced as a feature of social investigation and social policy by , among others , Stedman Jones ( 1971 ) and John Macnicol ( 1988 ) . |
| 29 | The meeting heard that a Sizewell B worker had been sacked as a result of a dangerous driving incident between Blythburgh and the site . |
| 30 | This ill-omened project appears to have been undertaken as a sort of consolation to the Tanganyika Masai after they suffered a series of land losses , to European settlers and to other tribes , in the late 1940s , when the Tanganyika government came under pressure to contribute to world food production . |