Example sentences of "[noun] had [verb] as a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One such obsolete mentality was religion , which scientists sponsored by Elena Ceauşescu had exposed as a delusion caused by neurological disorders , and which could be cured by simple surgical interventions into the brains of believers . |
| 2 | In a year-long " sting " operation by state authorities , an agent had posed as a casino owner in Las Vegas , Nevada , seeking to extend his empire into Arizona . |
| 3 | The devil , Trent thought , and found himself smiling as he realised that continual fear had acted as a drug , lifting him free of reality in the same way that marathon runners broke through the pain barrier into an almost hallucinatory state of calm . |
| 4 | Rusche and Kirchheimer themselves admit ( 1939 : 102 ) that imprisonment became the standard method of punishment at a time when the demand for prison labour had fallen as a result of technological and other developments . |
| 5 | Creggan saw Minch staring intently out into this nothingness , and then drop forward to the front of her cage and look fixedly at the benches , and at the harmless litter bin which Woil had used as a stance during his brief escape . |
| 6 | Clara and Rebecca had worked as a team before this but today they were on different jobs . |
| 7 | Chattopadhyay had served as a Minister under Indira Gandhi in the 1970s ; following the November 1989 Lok Sabha elections he had unsuccessfully called for the resignation of Rajiv Gandhi as Congress ( I ) leader and had eventually resigned from the party . |
| 8 | The University Grants Committee had acted as a buffer against change . |
| 9 | The later books have very much the air of contrived sequels , with young conspirators or princes in training cut from the same pattern and taking , one by one , the centre of a story , none of them capturing attention as the Stormy Petrel had done as a boy . |
| 10 | Darlington MP Michael Fallon , who toured the town with Mr Hamilton , said North-East companies had prospered as a result of defence contracts . |
| 11 | Kim had worked as a taxi driver for about five years . |
| 12 | It was plain for all to see that his father 's ultimatum had come as a shock to Jonna . |
| 13 | The losses of the state sector had grown as a result of the explosion of labour costs with the return to democracy , and because the state holding company INI ( Instituto Nacional de Industrias ) became a ‘ hospital ’ for near-bankrupt private companies ; these accounted for more than 40 per cent of its losses in 1983 . |
| 14 | Actually as the others knew , she agreed with them , did not need the furious condemnation that Faye had to use as a fuel to keep going . |
| 15 | The idea of collective security had emerged as a theme in Soviet policy in the 1950s . |
| 16 | General practitioners were asked to assess the extent to which they thought relationships with a number of other persons and organisations had changed as a result of acquiring fundholding status . |
| 17 | Chevènement had resigned as a deputy in 1988 on becoming Defence Minister , a post from which he resigned in January 1991 [ see p. 37941 ] . |
| 18 | However , it was also found that the significance of consent had decreased as a result of the legislation , as had the importance of resistance by the complainant . |
| 19 | Their remains were dumped on the site at Penhall Road , near Charlton , which London Transport had leased as a graveyard for its tram fleet . |
| 20 | To own a boarding house required capital in the first instance and to maintain the boarding house as a business venture in the early years the husband had to work as a taxi driver or have a part-time job during the winter . |
| 21 | Tolkien and Lewis had met as early as 1926 ; in 1939 Charles Williams had moved as a publisher from London to Oxford , and by the last years of the war Christian revival was in active literary life . |
| 22 | There he worked as a gardener for Sir John Blencowe ( 1642–1726 ) who had been the Member of Parliament for Brackley from 1690–1695 , and from 1696 –1714 had served as a Baron of the Exchequer and Justice of Common Pleas [ DNB , 2 , 672–3 ] . |
| 23 | The Shipping Controller purporting to act under Defence of the Realm Regulations had imposed as a condition of licensing the sale of a ship to a foreign purchaser the payment to him by the seller of 15 per cent . |
| 24 | In August 1991 the Pentagon revealed that of all US servicemen killed in Desert Storm , one quarter had fallen as a result of friendly fire . |
| 25 | It was suggested that the authorities tried to manipulate aggregate demand — primarily through fiscal policy — in order to achieve their desired combination of economic objectives but , because of the lags mentioned earlier , such policies exerted their full effect much later when economic conditions had changed as a result of the fluctuations in the business cycle . |
| 26 | One month and again one year after the presentation of the final report , I revisited the school to find out what changes had occurred as a result of the review . |
| 27 | It was an added bonus that his wife had trained as a nurse . |
| 28 | The strike had begun as a dispute between members of the International Association of Machinists ( IAM ) and the CSX Corp. , one of 40 freight companies involved in contract negotiations with the union . |
| 29 | Despite the material and social disadvantages that Harry had suffered as a child , he still seemed to think of those early years as happy ones . |
| 30 | The most famous of these figures , ‘ Doc ’ in Street Corner Society ( Whyte 1955 ) , certainly became an assistant to Bill Whyte , and indeed gave Whyte another ethical problem , as both he and Doc came to see that Doc 's behaviour had changed as a result of Whyte 's work . |