Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [vb pp] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Bazille has figured as a peripheral figure in several recent museum exhibitions on the Impressionist epoch and was the subject of a 1978 exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago , he has never been judged as completely on his own as he is in the current show at the Brooklyn Museum , N.Y . |
| 2 | He studied the cruel falcon face framed by the iron-grey hair , watching those slightly slanted eyes , one half-closed — a mannerism Edward had acquired as a young man . |
| 3 | In the absence of appropriate provision by other bodies , the WEA had grown as a social movement which sought to provide those opportunities for people , denied access to further and higher education , either through its own efforts or cooperatively , but without patronage , in partnership with the universities , LEAs , and other agencies . |
| 4 | There are important clues that , for the British police , ‘ Northern Ireland has served as a valuable laboratory , offering important lessons for the control of labour protest and racial unrest at home — some ‘ compensation ’ for Britain 's losses in the provinces ' ( Weitzer , 1985:41 ) . |
| 5 | Rhodesian-born Reynolds had operated as a financial services tied agent for Guardian Royal Exchange until February 1991 . |
| 6 | In the Franco-Prussian War in which de Castelnau had fought as a young officer he could recall all too vividly how , once it had started retreating , the French Army had never ceased until it was rounded up piecemeal . |
| 7 | Mr Rutskoi has emerged as a leading opponent of the economic reforms introduced by his boss , Boris Yeltsin . |
| 8 | Indeed , their growth , which Dr Borsay has described as a key dynamic in an " urban renaissance " between 1680 and 1760 , is central to his argument for an expanding leisure industry . |
| 9 | A majority of the EC , in which the Georgian Menshevik I.G. Tsereteli had emerged as a leading figure , had by this time adopted ‘ revolutionary defencism ’ , accepting that until peace had been secured they must uphold the front . |
| 10 | They did so this time without the usual , drum-beating , bugleblowing support of a packed ground that Vivian Richards had identified as a vital source of inspiration to his teams . |
| 11 | Juan had moved as a young man to La Blanquilla , the Venezuelan island furthest from the mainland . |
| 12 | Oxfam had begun as a tiny war-time committee organised by a small group of friends , including the then vicar of the parish of St Mary 's … |
| 13 | More important , James IV lived in what J. R. Hale has described as a new age — the age when European wars became more than a matter of ‘ violent housekeeping ’ . |
| 14 | Since 1979 privatisation in Britain has emerged as a significant plank of industrial policy . |
| 15 | Following the sale of Charter 's shareholding , Mr Charles Parker has retired as a non-executive director of Johnson Matthey . |
| 16 | Mr Major 's allies today laughed off suggestions that right-wing Tory MP and Euro-sceptic Teresa Gorman has emerged as a possible ‘ stalking horse ’ for a frivolous but potentially-damaging challenge to his leadership in the autumn . |
| 17 | In wartime conditions the fostering of local talent , which Chapman had abandoned as a main source of players in peacetime , became a necessity , and local football was boosted when Chapman arranged for City reserves to meet elevens from West Riding organizations . |
| 18 | So the flexibility of the model makes it the easiest to apply , but the assumption that Nottingham has grown as a Multiple nuclei model may be incorrect . |
| 19 | It will be the first of only six 400m hurdles races she is planning in her build-up to the world championships in Stuttgart and she will be up against Vera Ordina , the 25 year-old Russian Olympic finalist who Gunnell has identified as a major threat this summer . |
| 20 | The decision to sell Harford has come as a big blow to Luton boss David Pleat who said : ‘ I did n't want him to go but the club needs the money . ’ |
| 21 | Maktoum al Maktoum has emerged as a major player in the London property market , backing a £350m luxury hotel and office project on the Isle of Dogs in London 's Docklands . |
| 22 | It summarises post-Carboniferous structural form although the London-Brabant Massif has acted as a positive structural feature at least from early Palaeozoic times . |
| 23 | Derby have emerged as a major threat after the signing of former Sunderland star Marco Gabbiadini . |