Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | A recent Chinese assurance on ballistic missile sales to Middle Eastern countries , accreditation for a Voice of America journalist , and discussions of a possible resumption of the Fulbright academic exchange programme , have been dismissed here as inadequate . |
| 2 | The existence of ( b ) and ( c ) he thought proved by the presence of some biblical texts where the literal sense seemed absurd or contradictory ; such texts must have been placed there as signposts to a spiritual allegorical exegesis . |
| 3 | I used a small spray of birds-foot trefoil , and although in the finished picture it seems as though it has been pressed just as it was picked , in fact the majority of the piece was dismantled for pressing and reassembled for the picture . |
| 4 | In recent years , the obituaries have been pencilled in as Liverpool have brought in younger strike partners . |
| 5 | I retrieved the case notes for as many patients as possible who had been registered locally as having died of asthma during 1980–9 ( 21 case notes out of 40 in total ) . |
| 6 | Mains supplies of potable water have been regarded generally as of reasonably high standard , apart from the suspended matter in some and the hardness of others . |
| 7 | The four types are the foundations of the modern phyla , the most basic subdivisions of the animal kingdom , although the articulates and radiates have been broken up as the true range of diversity has become apparent . |
| 8 | Rule 7(6) of the Solicitors ' Practice Rules 1990 has been amended so as to allow solicitors to go into partnership with registered foreign lawyers . |
| 9 | Since the findings of the surveys described in Chapter 6 , the message promoting the lobon-gur solution had been revised so as to include the four different recognised types of diarrhoea and the use of refined sugar as a substitute for gur when the latter was unavailable . |
| 10 | Within another two minutes Simmons was two-thirds towards completing his hat trick after he outpaced all six defenders and side-footed the ball past goalkeeper Slack , who had been caught unawares as at the time he was trying to impress a group of young girls in the crowd by swinging on the crossbar . |
| 11 | One was villagers being told that his visit had been cancelled just as he was arriving . |
| 12 | In the room each bit of furniture seemed to be too far away from the others , as if they had been dropped there as markers , but the space was eroding them . |
| 13 | A 1 million b/d ‘ strategic ’ pipeline had been installed so as to enable the southern fields ' production to be sent out via the northern pipeline system through Syria , or the reverse ; as it later proved , a sensible precaution . |
| 14 | She 's been trapped there as well as the boy . |
| 15 | All circulation spaces within the building — corridors , galleries , staircases and lift lobbies — have been designed so as to exploit the brick-built elements of the original structure . |
| 16 | Due to lack of resources , no further studies of this sort have been carried out as yet . |
| 17 | He further maintained that the work had been carried out as agreed . |
| 18 | The District Council considers that the sites may have a role to play in the long-term strategic land reserve , although at this stage as no calculations have been carried out as to the requirements it is difficult to assess what role they might play . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , tree pruning has been carried out as requested on the Castletown and Groves Roads , and the Access road at the end of the Village . |
| 20 | In the eyes of elderly people many NHS hospitals were still Poor Law institutions , since many had been built originally as workhouses and had not changed a great deal in appearance . |
| 21 | This chapter has been organized so as to describe three main tours of the island , as well as a trip to Curral das Freiras . |
| 22 | This section has been applied so as to cover the administration of a drug which causes harm to the victim 's metabolism by overstimulation , if D 's motive for this is malevolent rather than benevolent . |
| 23 | Since then , the homoeopathic materia medica has been expanded considerably as more and more remedies are proved . |
| 24 | The arrangements have been made so as to enable spectators to be SET DOWN AND PICKED UP AT THE SAME POINT in a city unfamiliar to them . |
| 25 | Substantial changes to the original draft of the bill , notably the extension of all its provisions to cover Pomaks , had been secured partly as the result of agitation by several thousand Turks and Pomaks who demonstrated outside the National Assembly during the March 5 session . |
| 26 | Previous requests have been turned down as the Transport Department felt the road did not meet criteria for imposing speed restrictions . |
| 27 | It is sad that he could not have been turned so as to face his favourite church . |
| 28 | An inference is that the curvature of the spatial equatorial surface is where the negative sign has been selected so as to reproduce the experimentally observed deviation of light . |
| 29 | fund , er and we say that er , er we hope your Lordship will be with us on the main issues , but if your not , we say there are very powerful reasons of English and community law including er the obligation on the court under article five , to ensure that the , er the , the trials some two years hence lasting some five weeks with all the expert evidence , my learned friend says will be necessary , should not in the interim have the effect of er frustrating er the operation of er apparently valid provisions in the United Kingdom statutes and the Lloyds Acts and byelaws , which er , are themselves measures that have been adopted so as to pursue the policy |
| 30 | Large numbers of the birds are believed to have been shot down as they crossed Afghanistan and Pakistan en route to their summer breeding grounds along the River Ob , in eastern Russia . |