Example sentences of "been [vb pp] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having been dismissed as a kitchen maid , she harnesses her poetry to her teapot . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ] . |
| 4 | 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 ] . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Eddie made a harsh sound that could have been intended as a laugh but sounded more like a cry of pain . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Its height suggests that it was unlikely to have been intended as a garden sculpture . |
| 12 | Halfway through this advertisement , I started worrying about whether it might not have been intended as a joke . |
| 13 | The place had been intended as a family home , he had told her . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It should not be used to make good any cuts that have been sustained as a result of falling rolls , ratecapping , etc . |
| 18 | First , April Ashley should have been recognized as a female . |
| 19 | In all , it seems that Leapor has , at last , been recognized as a poet worthy of serious consideration . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | The meeting heard that a Sizewell B worker had been sacked as a result of a dangerous driving incident between Blythburgh and the site . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The Companies Act 1989 has changed the definition of a subsidiary and as a result A. Layout ( Leisurewear ) Ltd has been treated as a subsidiary for the first time . |
| 24 | In America insider dealing has been treated as a category of securities fraud since the 1930s ; the Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) prosecutes 30–40 cases a year . |
| 25 | She was shrewd enough to understand that the way he had been treated as a child would give him the added drive and determination to better himself . |
| 26 | When the boy had first come to the house he 'd been more of a child and had naturally been treated as a child . |
| 27 | His listeners heard all the details of Oliver 's illegitimate birth , and how generously he had been treated as a workhouse orphan . |
| 28 | Such a payment has been treated as a gift : see Maskell v. Horner [ 1915 ] 3 K.B . |
| 29 | The corporation tax has so far been treated as a tax on the rental of capital only , but in assessing its incidence the effect on monopoly profit must also be considered . |
| 30 | Alternatively , a client who has been treated as an expert investor on the grounds of his experience may claim that , in fact , he was a private investor , that he should have received warnings as to the risks and that , had he received them , he would not have entered into this type of transaction at all . |