Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [to-vb] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Englishness , as a sense of racial or spiritual identity , had come to function as a stabilizing force within the field of professional English studies , rather than providing the authority for a programme of cultural intervention . |
| 2 | The result may be that , what a company had hoped to treat as a minor domestic matter which could be brushed under the carpet , is exposed to the harsh light of day . |
| 3 | Quitting after a fracas he had gone to work as a literary agent and had prospered . |
| 4 | Only the Annual General Meetings of the Board in 1858 and 1859 are recorded — extremely briefly — in the Minute Books , for by 1860 the High School had ceased to exist as a separate entity . |
| 5 | They related to the constitutional arrangements which existed between 1974 and the end of 1986 whereby the General Council of the Bar had become part of the new Senate of the Inns of Court of the Bar and had ceased to exist as a separate entity , although the constitution of the Senate contained provisions designed to ensure that the Bar Council would remain an autonomous body for the purpose of its separate powers and functions . |
| 6 | Imagine the result if Mr Salomon had continued to trade as a sole proprietor ; he would have been personally liable to the full extent for all business debts incurred . |
| 7 | Yet even before the time of this fictional dialogue , set in the 1870s , Jesus and the origins of Christianity had begun to emerge as a burgeoning industry for researchers , writers and publishers . |
| 8 | By the mid 1930s , he had begun to rule as a royal dictator without the benefit of independent counsel . |
| 9 | Instead , he was articled to his father who , later in 1857 , had begun to practise as a consulting engineer in London . |