Example sentences of "what had [verb] as a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What had begun as a jeu d'esprit of a mere 30,000 words or so made Lewis a household name . |
| 2 | What had begun as a schoolgirl crush had grown into a profound and romantic desire to be Charles 's bride . |
| 3 | What had begun as a time saving essential has now become my hobby . |
| 4 | What had begun as a bolt of recognition and longing had been diverted into strain . |
| 5 | What had begun as a movement of resistance to the new apparatus of militarism , became itself a tolerated part of that apparatus . |
| 6 | What had begun as a process — the Mods ' narcissism and the Beatles ' androgyny illustrating new ways of regarding gender and the self — quickly became a sales device ( Beatles ' wigs , etc ) ; yet as this public exploration of sexuality met no barriers and the blurring effect of drugs took hold , it turned back , in 1966/7 , into an ever deeper examination of more ‘ private ’ layers of sexual divergence , of which homosexuality had always been the most easily codified . |
| 7 | What had started as a movement of rich kids in a concrete jungle seized the imagination of urban workers in an efficient , technocratic state , being hailed , in a Times series that appeared the week the revolt became widespread , as the very model of a modern major power . |