Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [verb] as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was after the war , when Magnus had driven the enemy from the land and he 'd been hailed as the new Emperor , that he performed what was to be his most significant act . |
| 2 | The movement 's two leading figures were ( i ) Peter-Michael Diestel , the last East German Interior Minister who had been ousted as the Christian Democrat ( CDU ) parliamentary leader in Brandenburg earlier in the year for defending former informers of the East German " Stasi " security police against " one-sided " accusations , and ( ii ) Gregor Gysi , leader of the reformed communist Party of Democratic Socialism ( PDS ) . |
| 3 | It was reported on Sept. 7 , 1989 , that Gen. Rolando Espinoza Lora had been appointed as the new Commander-in-Chief of the Army . |
| 4 | Cherubim Rosa Filho had been appointed as the new Chief of Staff of the Air Force . |
| 5 | The council has also built a new art gallery dedicated to local sculptor , Henry Moore , put in an Olympic-sized pool and demolished the squalid 30s housing estate which had been planned as the largest in Europe — in its place stands the brand new West Yorkshire Playhouse . |
| 6 | The national conference which since late 1991 had been planned as the next stage in the democratization process , was on May 8 postponed until later in the year on the grounds that its preparatory commission had not completed its work . |
| 7 | An aunt had been named as the testamentary guardian of the children but , through no fault of hers , was unable to care for them and they were received into the care of the local authority . |
| 8 | He simply announced that although Edward V had been recognized as the rightful heir , this was only because men were ‘ then ignorant of the very sure and true title which our sovereign lord that now is , king Richard III , hath and had the same time to the crown of England ’ . |
| 9 | He simply announced that although Edward V had been recognized as the rightful heir , this was only because men were ‘ then ignorant of the very sure and true title which our sovereign lord that now is , king Richard III , hath and had the same time to the crown of England ’ . |
| 10 | They were known as the Cedar Boys and it became clear that nearly all of them had been orphaned as the Third Reich took its terrible toll on European Jewry . |
| 11 | Forming the chord of this arc lay the so-called Oosttaverne Line , some 4km/2½mls in length the German trench system that had been selected as the final objective of Plumer 's attack . |
| 12 | For many decades , Greene had been regarded as The Grand Old Man of English Letters . |
| 13 | The June meeting was attended by Hans Brunhart , the head of government and Foreign Minister of Liechtenstein , which was involved in EFTA via a special protocol to the Stockholm Convention ; Brunhart said on April 3 that his country had been accepted as the seventh EFTA negotiating and contracting partner in the EES and was ready to become a full member of EFTA or strengthen institutional ties with the organization once an EES agreement was concluded . |
| 14 | King 's Road 's Mary Quant told the conference that with the advent of the miniskirt in the sixties the crotch had been redefined as the new erogenous zone . |
| 15 | These were purchased on price and availability , to provide the largest number of users with a standard machine for basic word-processing , which had been identified as the major requirement for Garden users . |
| 16 | In his discussion of the ancient city states , as in his discussion of feudalism , the contradiction between these two systems had been identified as the driving force of change . |
| 17 | By the mid 1930s the sense of this spiritual continuum had been established as the fundamental precondition underlying all professional work of the kind represented in the Review . |
| 18 | The Jesuit order , which had been established as the intellectual vanguard of the Church , made many enemies ; but its educational institutions were greatly admired . |
| 19 | Dunlop said that £2,000 had been agreed as the full value of the horse and that he was to pay Kilpatrick £1,000 for his half-share . |
| 20 | It had referred to Mr Donovan because he had been targeted as the first victim of the campaign in Britain . |
| 21 | It had referred to Mr Donovan because he had been targeted as the first victim of the campaign in Britain . |
| 22 | Easter had been set as the tentative date to ‘ roll-in ’ the first aircraft and everything was looking on course for this . |
| 23 | Since he had been hailed as the new John Edrich and had already shown himself capable of taking on that mantle , it was a bad blow for England . |
| 24 | The hall at the bottom of the stairs was a tiny square , a door on one side opened to what had been designed as the best parlour , but was now converted to a waiting-room for the surgery , which was a lean-to structure at the back . |
| 25 | In mid-November Assad , whose current constitutional term was due to end in March 1992 , had been nominated as the sole candidate by the Ba'ath Party and the People 's Assembly . |