Example sentences of "[noun prp] had be [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1935 Uruguay acceded to Brazilian pressure to break links with Moscow because of allegations , apparently not unfounded , that the Soviet trading office in Montevideo had been used as a conduit for funds to the Brazilian insurgents . |
| 2 | I was in Italy and read in the paper that Paul Van Kempen had been appointed as General Music Director in Aachen . |
| 3 | Nevertheless the Trotskyists themselves split , on the issue of whether or not to co-operate with the ICP , and , just as the VNQDD had been destroyed as a competitor with the Communist Party by French repression after Yen-Bay , so the French colonial government , shortly after war had begun in 1939 , rounded up virtually the entire leadership of the Trotskyist International Communist League , as it was then called : a coup from which the movement never recovered . |
| 4 | This incident was some time after the Red Sand Towers had been used as a pirate radio station ( Radio 390 ) . |
| 5 | Shortly afterwards Gotti had been chosen as Castellano 's successor . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | By 5 May 1989 , according to The Times , Khairallah had been replaced as defence minister by General Shanshal . |
| 8 | The detective would n't be expecting two of them and , when Dana had been appearing as a model in London , Claudia would have been in Solihull . |
| 9 | Some of the awkwardness in Anglo-American relations had been dispelled by a combination of circumstances ; James Byrnes had been replaced as US Secretary of State by the anglophile General George Marshall ; Britain , for her part , had supported the launch of the Marshall Plan in Western Europe ; and the Americans were beginning to appreciate that they were unlikely to be able to tame the malign hostility of the Soviet Union as Roosevelt had once hoped . |
| 10 | The Iranian News Agency ( IRNA ) reported on July 1 that Ahmad Muhammad Abu Rahimah had been appointed as the United Arab Emirates ' ( UAE ) first ambassador to Iran since the 1979 revolution . |
| 11 | Blaize had been deposed as leader of the New National Party which he led to a landslide electoral victory under US auspices in 1984 and had defiantly formed a new grouping . |
| 12 | The CNAA had been created as a policy instruments to increase access to ‘ higher ’ or university-level education outside the universities , and simultaneously to guarantee or raise standards in appropriate institutions . |
| 13 | Eva had been selected as youth speaker to welcome him to Brisbane that very weekend . |
| 14 | Eva had been working as his second for a number of years . |
| 15 | Jamie Hill , prosecuting , said Sigsworth had been admitted as a voluntary patient to St Luke 's Hospital in Middlesbrough after presenting himself at North Ormesby police station . |
| 16 | A man found shot dead in this car in Dorset had been identified as Alan Kealy , according to police an associate of Hanger 's . |
| 17 | Charley Hoskins had been trained as a blacksmith but , like so many Saltash boys , had his heart set on the sea and it was when he had joined the Royal Navy that he met Ben Bellaser . |
| 18 | Previously , 6 January had been celebrated as the Epiphany , or anniversary of Christ 's baptism , which was believed to have occurred on his thirtieth birthday . |
| 19 | By the second half of the 1950s , thanks to foreign loans , the economy was showing signs of recovery , and Spain had been admitted as a member of the United Nations , in December 1955 . |
| 20 | On July 12 , however , it was announced that Chauthala had been re-appointed as Haryana Chief Minister , replacing Banarasi Das Gupta . |
| 21 | Ali Yahya ( who was also chair of the Algerian League of Human Rights — LADH ) said that charges against Kebir had been dropped as a result of an Algiers court hearing . |
| 22 | Staff were advised that the company was looking for a new property when the search for a new suitable area began and when Aldermaston had been identified as the place where the new offices were to be built . |
| 23 | The concession of such facilities to the USSR had been shown as no reliable indication of genuine alignment with that power . |
| 24 | By 1987 the SLG had been redefined as the Curriculum Review Group ( CRG ) and during 1984–5 had reviewed the 14–16 Curriculum to make it more accessible to all , and in particular to reduce gender and class disadvantages and increase its coherence . |
| 25 | Jeyaretnam had been disqualified as an MP in 1986 [ see pp. 35462-63 ] over alleged irregularities in the collection of WP funds . |
| 26 | Earlier Costa Alegre had been elected as leader of the ruling Party of Democratic Convergence ( PCD ) , replacing Daniel Lima dos Santos Daio who had been dismissed as Prime Minister in April [ see p. 38854 ] . |
| 27 | Patterson had been dismissed as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and Planning in December 1991 after a scandal involving tax waivers for an oil company [ see pp. 38670-71 ] . |
| 28 | Whereas Prost had been delayed as the Ferrari mechanics fiddled with the right-rear wheel , Senna 's stop went like clockwork . |
| 29 | The council could also not understand why Bristol had been chosen as a UDC area . |
| 30 | For many decades , Greene had been regarded as The Grand Old Man of English Letters . |