Example sentences of "been [vb pp] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no covert there larger than an acre or two and they had been placed as much for their scenic effect as for their game-preserving role . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Little by little , the story pieces together the trials of this greedy and repulsive rag of a man , who assumes the name of Gemmy Fairley : his terrible early life as a rat-catcher 's assistant in England , where he had been treated as little better than a beast of burden by his loathed master , Willett ; how he managed to survive as a stowaway on board ship in order to escape the consequences of the revenge that he wreaked upon his master ; his arrival in Australia and his early life there , lived among the aborigines . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Until recently , the Aborigines have always been regarded as little more than the exceptional survivors of prehistoric man , a view based primarily on the materialistic aspects of their culture , its ‘ hardware ’ . |
| 6 | Reaction was firmly enthroned , and when during the parliamentary debate on the Security from Violence Bill one MP voiced the belief that ‘ the want of employment was the parent of crime ’ , this seems to have been regarded as little more than a sentimental eccentricity . |
| 7 | The GP who had for generations been regarded as much as a family advisor as a curer of disease , became a thing of the past . |
| 8 | They have been attracted as much by the intellectual image as by the high level of celebrity support from artists like John Cleese , Peter Gabriel and Sting . |
| 9 | Safrane 's controls have been located as high as possible on the dashboard and in logical groupings . |
| 10 | It was confirmed yesterday that she has been nominated as best actress for her part in the film Howards End . |
| 11 | ANOTHER CORAL has been installed as 7–1 favourite to complete a Mackeson Gold Cup double at Cheltenham a week on Saturday . |
| 12 | And Mike McClennan 's men have been installed as 7-2 second favourites behind Wigan , who are 4-7 on for a fourth successive title triumph . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In Waugh v British Rail Board [ 1980 ] AC 521 the House of Lords decided that where a report , following an inquiry , had been prepared as much to prevent further accidents as to obtain legal advice about potential claims , it was not privileged because its sole or dominant purpose was not submission to a legal adviser in view of litigation . |
| 16 | If so , what was this creature , that had stood before him naked and singular , but concealed multitudes ? ; this power Chant had said possessed no friends ( it has only ADORERS AND UNDOERS , he 'd written ) and had been done as much harm in these dealings ( again , Chant 's words ) as Estabrook , to whom Chant had offered his contrition and his prayers ? |
| 17 | Only very slowly did intellectuals concede that the movies had been shaped as much by politics as by the showmen . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Annette spent the intervening time with her son who had been made as comfortable as possible and she told him that she would stay with him until he went for the operation and would then go home but would return first thing in the morning . |
| 21 | The level of PCBs in belugas has been measured as high as 1725 parts per million ( ppm ) . |
| 22 | Education — the election debate that never happened Labour and the Liberal Democrats would take our school system back to the bad old days , argues ANTHONY O'HEAR — so why have n't the voters been told as much ? |
| 23 | He thought he was covered to drive another vehicle , and said he had been told as much on the telephone by his insurers . |
| 24 | Oh yeah , I 've been told as much . |
| 25 | ‘ Seldom has a bone been hyped as much as this one . ’ |
| 26 | It is interesting that Patrick 's activity seems to have been dictated as much by personal disillusion or disappointment as by religious fervour . |
| 27 | In no other aspect of public affairs has the authority of the Executive been abused as much as in Civil , Religious and Democratic Liberties . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Indeed , iconoclasm has frequently been portrayed as little more than mindless vandalism perpetrated by Philistine bigots . |
| 30 | 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 . |