Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The device could 've been planted as early as Saturday morning and police want to speak to anyone who went there from that time , to when the alarm was raised yesterday . |
| 2 | The decision was communicated to our staff late in 1992 and I am pleased to say that the wind-down has been handled as efficiently as could be wished . |
| 3 | Symphony Release 2.2 relied on the Allways add-in for its spreadsheet publishing capability but transition from one to the other has been made as smooth as possible . |
| 4 | Michael Porter , whose Competitive Advantage of Nations has been studied as much by political leaders as businessmen , now talks of the Porter ‘ brand ’ . |
| 5 | This time around , the computerisation curve has flattened out , so the electronics industry has been hit as hard as any . |
| 6 | Profit has been seen as more pursuable than collective concern for others . |
| 7 | If Richard Herrnstein ( ’ IQ encounters with the press ’ , 28 April , p 230 ) has been treated as shabbily as he says by American newspapers , that is unforgivable . |
| 8 | There are cases , including the authorities to which Cooke P. referred , in which an order apparently final has been treated as interlocutory so as to deprive a litigant of a right of appeal or so as to restrict such right . |
| 9 | This prescriptive approach has been repeated as recently as October 1988 , when the director of the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools in Northern Ireland said that people who sent their children to integrated schools rather than catholic ones were breaking the law of the church . |
| 10 | Autumn arrival has been noted as early as 10 July , but usually starts in late October , and passage has been noted in November . |
| 11 | The second is a historical observation , that during the thirty years or so since the first observations of single cell response properties in the visual systems of mammals , our understanding of how the visual system works has been driven as much by theoretical developments in the psychology of perception as the other way round . |
| 12 | Some of that deal has been produced as far as the Tornado 's concerned , but again you 're quite right we 're waiting for the announcement of the er orders for the trains . |
| 13 | This is important to individual sites so that they can make their own assessment of the value to them of adopting what has been identified as best practice elsewhere . |
| 14 | The provision has been criticised as unnecessary as most organisers liaised with the police on a voluntary basis . |
| 15 | It was confirmed yesterday that she has been nominated as best actress for her part in the film Howards End . |
| 16 | In an age of secularization , in which religious myths have been ruthlessly unmasked and in which parricidal revolt and protest has been directed as much against God as against other father-surrogates , it is not surprising that a regressive current of feeling , comparable to that which sustained the Neolithic goddess-cults , no longer finds an obvious religious expression . |
| 17 | The burning oil wells of Kuwait continue to cause widespread air pollution , notably in the form of " black rain " , which has been reported as far away as Bulgaria , Afghanistan and Pakistan . |
| 18 | ANOTHER CORAL has been installed as 7–1 favourite to complete a Mackeson Gold Cup double at Cheltenham a week on Saturday . |
| 19 | Nesting has been proved as far inland as Harting . |
| 20 | Before the brigade of receptionists change shift they must ensure that all work has been processed as far as possible and that any messages or matters to be dealt with are brought to the attention of the evening shift . |
| 21 | The level of PCBs in belugas has been measured as high as 1725 parts per million ( ppm ) . |
| 22 | In Mycenaean times , Thorikos on the east Attic coast was importing the black volcanic glass called obsidian from the island of Melos , a reminder that there was and is a good little harbour nearby at Laurion ; Attic submycenaean and geometric pottery has been found as far away as western Asia Minor ; and the archaic Athenian colonies at Sigeum and the Chersonese , and the sixth-century cleruchies on Salamis and Euboia , foreshadow the fifth-century empire . |
| 23 | As things stand , buying at Lanark has been described as more a sale of intent rather than actual sale of quota . |
| 24 | Though the big R100 BMW has been designed as much for cross-country work as for the road , the wheels bucked and skidded in the grey waterlogged soil as Trent fought the handlebars , weaving between scrub bush and clumps of hagara grass . |
| 25 | The development of Defence policy since the Second World War has been dominated as much by efforts to find ways off the ‘ Military Road to Absurdity ’ as by the struggle for resources in the Whitehall market-place . |
| 26 | Although the South Downs were cleared at a very early stage in man 's history in Britain , the clearing of the Wealden forest was delayed until the medieval period , the height of the clearance being in the 13th and 14th centuries , although parts may have been cleared as early as the ninth century . |
| 27 | Those of us who have had reason to spend even a short time in a hospital will appreciate how much they look forward to the day that they can return home , even though their period spent in the hospital may have been made as pleasant as possible by exemplary care . |
| 28 | Yet , the Labour MP Jeff Rooker claims , there have been examples of Royal Warwickshire prisoners of war seeking desperately needed help who have been given as little as £25 , while many more have been means-tested and found ‘ unqualified ’ for even basic financial assistance . |
| 29 | When William the Conqueror came to ‘ reform ’ the local church , that transformation may have been based as much on political as doctrinal and ritual considerations . |
| 30 | Volcanic effects have been even more sudden and disastrous , ranging from the explosion of the island of Krakatoa , between Java and Sumatra , in 1883 to the even more catastrophic eruption of Santorini ( or Thira ) in the Aegean about 1470 B.C. This eruption , or series of eruptions , which resulted in the huge collapsed caldera in the sea beside the present island , must have been the greatest catastrophe ever witnessed by man and may well have been heard as far away as Britain . |