Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [noun sg] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 A major part of the paper 's thinking was that it could employ people who would have been good journalists if they had pursued journalism as a conventional career .
2 Hitherto Braque had attracted attention as a significant latter-day recruit to the Fauve movement .
3 The man who had offered the seat had seen Ianthe as a tall fragile-looking woman in a pretty blue hat that matched her eyes .
4 In so far as Freud thought he had done psychology as a natural science , he has been vulnerable to critics within psychology who have applied natural scientific criteria to his work and found it wanting .
5 Yes , she had recognised pride as an intrinsic component of his personal make-up , and the fact that it could permit him to ignore or override her resistance , her hostility , her hatred , was probably the true measure of his confidence in her ultimate surrender .
6 From an ideological point of view , the anti-democratic nature of the Spanish regime became less significant once communism had replaced fascism as the perceived principal threat to world peace .
7 Within a short time of Jesus 's death , he had taken his brother 's place , had assumed the presiding role in the Nazarean hierarchy in Jerusalem and had attained status as a holy man himself .
8 It was reported on Jan. 3 that Luis Adolfo Portugal Rondón had assumed office as the new president of the Supreme Court .
9 The Popular Front , he added , had gained acceptance as the authentic leadership body of the revolution and as the framework for consultations and the unifying force for all political and ideological organizations .
10 The situation was so bad in one company — it had started life as a joint venture with Lonrho — that the losses from 1985 to 1988 were substantially greater than its aggregate wage costs .
11 Finally he came up with what had started life as a white envelope .
12 The figures were released soon after Fine Gael , the main opposition party , had identified unemployment as a key issue for the election .
13 The position of Rathbone and the NUSEC was potentially more radical than pre-War feminists because they were grappling with two new issues , first , the need to improve women 's economic position in the family ( earlier feminists had suggested celibacy as the only alternative to ‘ marriage as a trade ’ ) , and second , the necessity to get away from defining equality for women on men 's terms .
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