Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] as the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This airframe was the founder member of what became known as the National Aeronautical Collection ( NAC ) and the bulk of the airframes presented in the new gallery are from that grouping .
2 Following the elections to the Basque parliament on Oct. 28 , 1990 , the formation of a new regional government had been delayed for three months due to the breakdown of talks between the two parties which had made up the previous governing coalition — the Basque Nationalist Party ( PNV ) , which had emerged as the largest single party , with 22 seats , and the Basque Socialist Party ( PSE-PSOE ) which had been beaten into second place .
3 Within four years of his return , Nkrumah had emerged as the acknowledged national leader whose stature required a rapid acceleration in the political process .
4 Even The Listener job , which he left acknowledged as the best literary editor of his day , produced a characteristic essay in self-denigration .
5 Otherwise , if place could have been found for these minor poets and playwrights , not to mention jumped-up journalists who also figured all too prominently , surely a few sentences could have been spared for the man he himself had described as the one working-class writer who remained working-class — the man whom the Sentinel had called ‘ the poet of work ’ .
6 The Russians came among the Siberian peoples in the late sixteenth century from two directions , which subsequently became established as the main regular routes .
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