Example sentences of "had be [verb] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The movement 's two leading figures were ( i ) Peter-Michael Diestel , the last East German Interior Minister who had been ousted as the Christian Democrat ( CDU ) parliamentary leader in Brandenburg earlier in the year for defending former informers of the East German " Stasi " security police against " one-sided " accusations , and ( ii ) Gregor Gysi , leader of the reformed communist Party of Democratic Socialism ( PDS ) . |
| 2 | Asquith 's reform had been presented as an interim measure and the preamble to his Bill stated that the Lords " powers were being curtailed pending the introduction of a reform of their composition . |
| 3 | One possible drawback could be that some people might decide to take an overdose as a result of learning about it through the media or public discussion , even if the behaviour had been presented as an inappropriate way of coping . |
| 4 | Lord Widgery ( who had succeeded Lord Parker as Lord Chief Justice ) had been appointed as a one-man tribunal of enquiry to enquire into the events of ‘ Bloody Sunday ’ which led to thirteen civilian deaths in Londonderry . |
| 5 | It was reported on Sept. 7 , 1989 , that Gen. Rolando Espinoza Lora had been appointed as the new Commander-in-Chief of the Army . |
| 6 | Cherubim Rosa Filho had been appointed as the new Chief of Staff of the Air Force . |
| 7 | She had been adopted as a small child by the counsellor 's wife , now dead — so said my companion , adding that it was well known that she would marry Victor , and so come into a deal of money . |
| 8 | Until the mid-eighties Denmark Farm had been run as an intensive stock farm which , inevitably , had produced a degraded environment for wildlife — wet meadows and marshes drained ; traditional hay meadows ploughed and reseeded to rye grass ; all wild corners cleared ; and an old orchard , hedgerow and two-acre bluebell wood grubbed out . |
| 9 | As for the old houses , there were none in the immediate area that I knew of , other than these which had been built as a nostalgic memento , as a reminder , as a gift both to himself and his family from a man who must have known innately that in discarding the past his people were in danger of losing their touchstone . |
| 10 | It had been planned as a separate men 's and women 's race , with the latter being sent off 20 minutes earlier , but only Dorre managed to stick to the plan , winning in 2hr 29min 38sec . |
| 11 | The council has also built a new art gallery dedicated to local sculptor , Henry Moore , put in an Olympic-sized pool and demolished the squalid 30s housing estate which had been planned as the largest in Europe — in its place stands the brand new West Yorkshire Playhouse . |
| 12 | The national conference which since late 1991 had been planned as the next stage in the democratization process , was on May 8 postponed until later in the year on the grounds that its preparatory commission had not completed its work . |
| 13 | The journalists , who were allowed free access to the site and were able to file reports without censorship , found no evidence of a military presence within the bunker which had been constructed as a civilian shelter during the Iran-Iraq war . |
| 14 | An aunt had been named as the testamentary guardian of the children but , through no fault of hers , was unable to care for them and they were received into the care of the local authority . |
| 15 | She had been discovered as a fourteen-year-old Moscow prostitute when she decided to take on the whole of a KGB barrackroom who were in need of relief . |
| 16 | Dr Hadley , who had asked the questions , ceased to play with the two-toned ball pen he had been using as a remote muscle of his tongue . |
| 17 | He simply announced that although Edward V had been recognized as the rightful heir , this was only because men were ‘ then ignorant of the very sure and true title which our sovereign lord that now is , king Richard III , hath and had the same time to the crown of England ’ . |
| 18 | He simply announced that although Edward V had been recognized as the rightful heir , this was only because men were ‘ then ignorant of the very sure and true title which our sovereign lord that now is , king Richard III , hath and had the same time to the crown of England ’ . |
| 19 | Walter Pater was a master of atmosphere ; he had been inspired as a young man by Ruskin , and his idealism about art and his fine prose were in turn much admired by a younger generation of aesthetes , among whom Oscar Wilde was a prominent figure . |
| 20 | They were known as the Cedar Boys and it became clear that nearly all of them had been orphaned as the Third Reich took its terrible toll on European Jewry . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Randolph Henry Ash 's Proserpine had been seen as a Victorian reflection of religious doubt , a meditation on the myths of Resurrection . |
| 23 | What had been seen as a possible threat to public health had transformed into a darling of venture capital with resulting controversy over the protection of academic virtue . |
| 24 | The convoy to Gorazde , carrying 102 tonnes of family parcels , flour and medicine , had been seen as a key test of Serb promises to co-operate with relief efforts . |
| 25 | By 1898 the college had been incorporated as a limited liability company ; it had acquired new premises , a large lecture hall , a library of 3,000 books , a museum , and a gymnasium ; there was an academic staff of three besides the principal , and the nucleus of a picture collection acquired by the principal during her extensive travels . |
| 26 | That race had been touted as a possible target for the French and Irish Derby winner Old Vic , who like Nashwan carries the colours of a member of the Maktoum family . |
| 27 | The article by Mr Monti , who had been touted as a possible external candidate for the governorship , may simply be a case of sour grapes . |
| 28 | It soon became disappointingly clear to the NVA that what had been conceived as a two-way process between voluntary bodies and the state , in practice placed the burden of day-to-day regulation on private initiatives . |
| 29 | When one comes to look at the judgments in the American Economic Laundry case , it appears clear that the approach which the court was adopting in that case was to regard the tenant against whom a possession order had been made as a statutory tenant who did not have all the rights to protection conferred by the Rent Restriction Acts . |
| 30 | Mr Franco had been branded as a distracted caretaker , doing little more than warming the presidential chair he inherited last October , when Fernando Collor was ousted in disgrace . |