Example sentences of "been [verb] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having been dismissed as a kitchen maid , she harnesses her poetry to her teapot . |
| 2 | Complaints about the Middlesbrough mosque and procedures for funerals held there have been dismissed as a ‘ complete misunderstanding ’ by Muslim community leaders . |
| 3 | It has also been examined as a potential animal feed . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was a large , first-floor apartment which had been furnished as a suitable setting for an up-and-coming superstar . |
| 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 | Each a study in itself , with titles like ‘ No two feathers ’ , ‘ Butterflyman ’ , and ‘ Angel and the Dreamer ’ , they have been flown as an aerial ballet to classical music , wind harps and synthesisers . |
| 8 | 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 ] . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ( Pound had studied some of the same French poets , notably Laforgue and Rimbaud , but he had profited by them in a quite different way from Eliot , and he was averse to the central thrust of the symboliste endeavour , to which indeed the imagist or imagiste movement which he had sponsored had been intended as a challenging alternative . ) |
| 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 | It may , at the time when it was built , have been intended as a final resting-place for the priestesses of the Knossos Labyrinth , rather than , as is often assumed , for the Knossian kings . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | The act may have been intended as a " final measure " by those who wished to steady things , but the flow of politics is rarely so easily contained by the comma of a constitutional concession . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The offensive appeared , initially , to have been intended as a tactical show of strength designed to secure a better bargaining position in peace talks , due to resume on July 15 but " indefinitely suspended " by the government [ see p. 38283 ] . |
| 22 | Eddie made a harsh sound that could have been intended as a laugh but sounded more like a cry of pain . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It is just different from what it would be had Gloriana been intended as a Grand Opera in the A ida sense . |
| 25 | The place had been intended as a family home , he had told her . |
| 26 | It should not be used to make good any cuts that have been sustained as a result of falling rolls , ratecapping , etc . |
| 27 | The privatization programme has been recognized as a major break with the mixed economy consensus . |
| 28 | The Bible has long been recognized as a composite work spanning many centuries , not some kind of monolithic whole , and whilst opinions differ widely as to the precise dating ( and methods of dating ) of its constituent parts , it remains the case that a book , or indeed a chapter , may lie in the received text next to a verse or chapter some several centuries removed in compositional/redactional terms from its neighbour . |
| 29 | In all , it seems that Leapor has , at last , been recognized as a poet worthy of serious consideration . |
| 30 | These views reflect what has since been recognized as a ‘ prevailing ideology ’ in ‘ the British literary-journalistic establishment ’ of the 1950s — — in which Snow 's influence as a reviewer played a considerable part . |