Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [noun sg] as a [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Finally he came up with what had started life as a white envelope . |
| 8 | The figures were released soon after Fine Gael , the main opposition party , had identified unemployment as a key issue for the election . |