Example sentences of "had [been] [verb] as a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Souza 's commitments were no doubt the more complicated because he had been raised as a Catholic , and had been taught that the eroticism of Hindu religious philosophy was wicked . |
2 | The election result enhanced the stature of Kaifu ( who had been appointed as a caretaker leader in 1989 ) and reduced the amount of factional conflict within the ruling party . |
3 | ‘ State Department officials were unavailable for comment , ’ the New York Times reported , thereby hinting at the source of the leak , but if the story had been aired as a trial balloon , it failed to lift off . |
4 | The hospital had been built as a memorial to King Edward VII and it had seen better days . |
5 | It was his private theory that Woodfield Council estate had been built as a series of experiments in wind-tunnelling . |
6 | It looked like it had been built as a rag trade sweatshop at the turn of the century and was sandwiched between a musical equipment shop and The Tin Pan Alley Club — which was a notorious music biz drinking den . |
7 | The day had been planned as a display of condemnation of the recent wave of neo-Nazi attacks on foreigners and Holocaust memorials . |
8 | Graham J found that such information was not readily available and went on to say that the information had been obtained as a result of considerable labour and expense on the part of the plaintiffs and was therefore valuable and , it followed , confidential . |
9 | The firebombing of the Sherman & Grant office premises had underlined the lesson , while taking care of the possibility that the elder one may have kept the severed finger he had been sent as a warning . |
10 | Also on June 9 , immediately after the close of polls , Jan Budaj , Deputy Chairman of the Slovak National Council ( parliament ) and a leading PAV candidate for the Council , announced that he was withdrawing his candidacy , saying that he had been registered as a collaborator with the StB in the 1970s . |
11 | If I shifted my weight on to the shoulder these mugs had been using as a football , the pain took away my thoughts from the throbbing ache in my head . |
12 | Zhivkov had been called as a witness in the trial , beginning on Feb. 13 , of Stoyan Ovcharov , who had been removed as Minister of Economy and Planning and as a candidate member of the former Bulgarian Communist Party politburo immediately after Zhivkov 's fall from power . |
13 | ‘ She had n't been harmed , but she said Edouard was attacked while she was there and it had been done as a warning to her . |
14 | All local funds , which had been cut as a result of the introduction of NEP , were poured into famine relief . |
15 | He had been re-elected as a candidate of the successful Hungarian Democratic Forum ( MDF ) in 1990 but subsequently left the MDF . |
16 | The United Ulster Unionist Council ( UUUC ) had been formed as a coalition of the Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party , the Democratic Unionist Party , and the Unionists led by Harry West . |
17 | Formerly , socialization had been seen as a kind of ‘ clay moulding ’ . |
18 | The first round of voting last week had been seen as a referendum on a UN-backed ‘ set of ideas ’ to end the division of the island with the creation of a federal state comprising Greek and Turkish Cypriot zones . |
19 | At the beginning of his term as General Secretary , Brezhnev had been seen as a leader pursuing the art of the possible but by the end of his life , his leadership was seen , more pointedly , as the avoidance of the necessary . |
20 | The alleged plot by Manoon had been cited as a justification by the military for staging the February 1991 coup [ see p. 38004 ] , shortly after which Manoon had fled the country . |
21 | The dinner had been arranged as a farewell , but never mind . |
22 | Mkolongolo alleged in a press statement that the United States ambassador , Smith Hempstone , had been recalled as a result of " misleading information " given him by Muite [ see also p. 38136 ] . |
23 | In all , more than 200 people had been charged as a result of the Fitzgerald inquiry , including seven former National Party politicians , 26 police , and several judges and prominent businessmen . |
24 | And then when the invitations to speak to the Housewives ’ Register and Parish Council started rolling in , I realized that CHE had been noted as a part of the life of the town and it had a lot of potential friends . |
25 | Gazza was blazing mad that his training ground ‘ discussion ’ had been mis-interpreted as a bust-up . |
26 | The third sister , Ankhsenpaaten , had been given as a child bride to Tutankhaten . |
27 | She also toyed with a book she had been given as a Christmas present , In Tune With The Infinite by Ralph Waldo Trine . |
28 | She was sure if she listened hard enough she would be able to hear the creak of the rocking-horse the girl had been given as a Christmas present a month ago . |
29 | A second inscription on the opposite side reveals that it had been given as a wedding present to the employer himself in 1838 . |
30 | For instance the chronological grouping of particular watermarks has revealed that a small portrait of Petrus Sylvius , Saskia 's cousin , was printed twice : once in 1637 , which is the date below Rembrandt 's signature this was on the occasion of Sylvius 's move from Amsterdam to Friesland after he had been received as a minister of the church and again , in an unaltered state still carrying the date of 1637 much later , in 1653 . |