Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [verb] as a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The University Grants Committee had acted as a buffer against change . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was plain for all to see that his father 's ultimatum had come as a shock to Jonna . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The idea of collective security had emerged as a theme in Soviet policy in the 1950s . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Their remains were dumped on the site at Penhall Road , near Charlton , which London Transport had leased as a graveyard for its tram fleet . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ] . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It was an added bonus that his wife had trained as a nurse . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The Polytechnic enclosed a small square garden which the architect had seen as a kind of cloister for scholarly pacing . |
| 18 | His father had worked as a coal miner in Castleford in Yorkshire and , after completing his shelter drawings , Moore revisited his home town to make sketches and drawings of mining as part of the war effort . |
| 19 | And after a week , when the football ground had acted as a family home visited by friends from near and afar in what was a traditional wake , the flowers which had been laid were ritually burned . |
| 20 | Amongst the carers themselves , ‘ isolation , frustration and resignation ’ were near universal in the sample , with a substantial number estimating that their sense of self-worth had suffered as a result of their situation . |
| 21 | Once , in the days when the building was known as Kelly 's Star Music Hall , the space had served as a beer cellar . |
| 22 | In a letter to the London gallery , The Edge , a DTI official stated that details of the case had been passed to Customs and Excise for them to consider whether an offence had occurred as a licence had not been granted for the photographs in the current exhibition . |
| 23 | They got on exceptionally well over a bottle of whisky which the expatriate had brought as a gift . |
| 24 | The Committee recognised that the greatest public concern had arisen as a consequence of the ‘ presence and the visible and obvious presence of prostitutes in considerable numbers in the public streets of some parts of London and of a few provincial towns ’ . |
| 25 | The fund had acted as a conduit for the money from ivory trade associations in Japan for one year , but this was stopped by Mr Lapointe , Mr Bohlen said , because he wanted the money to go directly to the secretariat . |
| 26 | It was because she 'd never taken him seriously that the whole thing had come as a surprise . |
| 27 | Films taken by a submersible robot established that the ship had sunk as a result of a large explosion . |
| 28 | Built in an age of faith , the tower had stood as a symbol , too , of that final unquenchable hope that even the sea would yield up her dead and that their God was God of the waters as he was of the land . |
| 29 | According to the society , water voles , otters , redshank , snipe and lapwing and wetland plants such as marsh orchid and bog pimpernel had declined as a result of over-abstraction and drainage over many years . |
| 30 | The oldest woman in the refuge had worked as a railway clerk , in a sausage factory , a pop factory and in a factory making bingo boards until she stopped working a few years earlier and was put on invalidity benefit . |