Example sentences of "[coord] had [be] [verb] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Europe had been divided by these two into spheres of influence and had been weakened as a result . |
| 2 | Val had four children aged between seventeen and six , and had been working as a childminder at home to supplement the family income . |
| 3 | Mr Telford , who took redundancy from the pit in 1988 and had been working as a mining contractor at Rossington , near Doncaster , allegedly threatened a man with the gun to gain entry . |
| 4 | The Fort , constructed in a lagoon by the Dutch in the 17th century , had little strategic value , but had been seen as a symbolic representation of the authority of the government in the Tamil heartlands of the Jaffna peninsula . |
| 5 | Looks as if the message that an army of outsiders is needed to turn IBM Corp 's disparate businesses around is beginning to get through : yesterday the Personal Software Products division announced that it had recalled William Rich to be general manager , worldwide sales and marketing — he had left the company but had been acting as a consultant to it ; it has also tapped David Proctor as vice-president of products — Proctor is formerly president of Xerox Computer Services and had been president and chief executive of Ashton-Tate Corp ; before he took that position , he had served 23 years with IBM . |
| 6 | The meeting had originally been scheduled to start on July 1 , but had been delayed as a result of Sri Lanka 's announcement on June 24 that it would not participate because of India 's refusal to agree on the withdrawal of the Indian Peace Keeping Force ( IPKF ) from Sri Lanka by the latter 's deadline of July 29 [ see p. 36735 ] . |
| 7 | Metal whiskers of this kind had been known of , in a general sort of way , for a long time but had been regarded as a nuisance or a curiosity . |