Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [vb pp] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | But surely in an economically and culturally disparate country such as Italy , which has existed as a single entity for little more than a century , a north-south break-up would be the best thing to promote accountability , reduce bureaucracy and eliminate waste . |
2 | The first regards the essential task of co-ordination between subjects and between levels and it was the Institute at Dar es Salaam which first developed a structure which has served as a useful model elsewhere . |
3 | They were : the Zimbabwe United Movement ( ZUM , former ZANU-PF secretary-general Edgar Tekere l. ) , the main opposition party , formed in April 1989 , which incorporated the all-white Conservative Alliance of Zimbabwe ; Zimbabwe African National Union ( Ndonga ) ( ZANU ( Ndonga ) , Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole l. ) which had emerged as a breakaway ZANU faction ; the nationalist United African National Council ( UANC , formerly led by Bishop Muzorewa ) ; and the National Democratic Union . |
4 | Under the country 's new Constitution introduced in April 1992 , a single President replaced the old Council of State which had served as a collective presidency . |
5 | Their history told of many wars and truces between the villagers and the " men of the trees " , and of how the monkeys would carry their dead down into those same caves which had served as a human burial-ground or , rather , burial-dump since pre-Islamic times . |
6 | A leading Right-On thinker , she had co-written the Beyond The Fragments book which had started as a mere pamphlet , but had attracted so much interest that it had been upgraded and sold an extremely respectable 20,000 copies in paperback , having a major effect on its earnest readership . |
7 | Last year an East India company in the tea trade had gone bankrupt , and the court found it had actually been insolvent for a quarter of a century — which had come as a great surprise even to the directors . |
8 | The alarming thing was that what had started as a lively discussion , had somehow gone sour on the two girls . |
9 | What had originated as a spontaneous civilian outburst now began to be depicted in the international media as a revolt by Iraq 's majority Shia community , most of whom lived in the southern part of the country . |
10 | This is what 's known as a messy problem . |