Example sentences of "had be as " in BNC.
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| 1 | His previous experience had been as assistant boss of one of the smaller London museums . |
| 2 | To comfort her desolation and guilt Rachel had told her about the Mongolian desert , where she had been as a little girl , hardly older than Maggie was now , to look for dragons , which she called dinosaurs , and where years later Russian palaeontologists had found the great fossil eggs in which the sleeping baby dinosaurs could still be seen . |
| 3 | Mompesson , whose wife was among those to succumb , wrote that Eyam had become ‘ a Golgotha — a place of skulls ; and had there no been a small remnant of us left , we had been as Sodom and Gomorrah . |
| 4 | She was very tidy and had been as a child , she said ‘ I 'm obssessive ’ . |
| 5 | Considering that Walter Luff will be forever associated with the modernisation of the Blackpool tramway in the Thirties , it was surprising that his previous appointment had been as Commercial Manager of the West Riding Tramways Company , which had just abandoned its trams . |
| 6 | She may have had some capital of her own , though many a wife in Victorian times was little better off as one man 's wife than she had been as another man 's daughter : |
| 7 | Afterwards , he felt it had been as if each of them had been waiting for the other to touch on a delicate subject . |
| 8 | Galliéni , who was senior to Joffre , had been offered the supreme command , a post he turned down on the grounds that all his experience had been as a colonial soldier and administrator . |
| 9 | Climate Changer is an intriguing choice , since its business to date has been developing applications for the air-conditioning industry — its previous link to OCT had been as a large user of the machines . |
| 10 | The dock was fenced off , but not the way it had been as a real dock , with real cargoes to steal . |
| 11 | It had been as if he came from another , alien world , beyond her experience or comprehension , a glamorous , glittering man who made her think of diamonds , so hard and sharp were the edges of his personality . |
| 12 | No doubt his physical closeness did n't help her to think clearly because he was more breathtakingly sexy than he had been as a young man . |
| 13 | It was unreasonable to suppose that an enlargement of Nicholas I 's " personal " principle could fill the vacuum in the countryside , for when the serfs were free they were even more likely to misinterpret dictates from the centre than they had been as bondmen . |