Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [verb] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I left before the tour was over because it was time for Mott The Hoople to come and tour and I 'd been designated as the person to take care of them , so I went off before it was over . |
| 2 | But it was after the war , when Magnus had driven the enemy from the land and he 'd been hailed as the new Emperor , that he performed what was to be his most significant act . |
| 3 | The crash of the Sea King helicopter in which twenty members of the S.A.S. died was reported as the regiment 's single greatest loss since a whole troop with an aircraft had been posted missing in the Second World War . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | In April 1962 he wrote ‘ Blowin' in the Wind ’ , and within a short space of time he had been adopted as the spokesman of the civil-rights movement . |
| 9 | Whistling had been adopted as the language of the world . |
| 10 | Great Stourford had been built as the ostentatiously fashionable home of a sugar millionaire whose wealth was so substantial and political skill so keen that his grandson was elevated to the title of Lord Chamfer by Queen Victoria . |
| 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 case , which was heard in June 1968 , was n't helped by the fact that two months earlier Lady Althorp had been named as the ‘ other woman ’ in the Shand Kydds ' divorce while most galling of all , her own mother , Ruth , Lady Fermoy sided against her . |
| 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Five companies have been shortlisted in the bidding for 35% of the Greek Telecommunications Organisation , OTE , this summer , Reuter reports : their indicative bids are expected in June and the sale will be completed in August and the five are Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp , France Telecom , GTE Corp , Telefonica de Espana SA and STET SpA ; STET already has a $160m 20-year licence to develop a cellular mobile phone system in Greece ; AT&T Co , which had been seen as the favourite , withdrew from the bidding . |
| 19 | While previously residential care had been seen as the solution for many young children , it was now considered as part of the problem . |
| 20 | Industrialization had been seen as the key to international strength , and industrial development had been pushed forward regardless of rural and urban poverty , environmental damage and social and economic dislocation . |
| 21 | Since the Meiji period the farming community had been trumpeted as the guardian of the so-called ‘ traditional ’ Japanese virtues , the embodiment of all that was best in the Japanese family system . |
| 22 | Five Turkish soldiers were killed on Aug. 20 in an ambush at Silopi , the town which had been designated as the headquarters of a 1,000-strong Turkish battalion intended to prevent incursions from Iraqi soil . |
| 23 | Whereas Prost had been delayed as the Ferrari mechanics fiddled with the right-rear wheel , Senna 's stop went like clockwork . |
| 24 | Darwin 's theory had been criticized as the ‘ law of higgledy-piggledy ’ by Sir John Herschel , the eminent physicist ; but in the same autumn , Maxwell had begun the process of turning physics too into a statistical science . |
| 25 | In the government 's view the relationship between the decision to spend and the financial discipline of meeting the cost had been weakened as the proportion of local expenditure covered by grant had increased . |
| 26 | Inter-company loans had been made as the exigencies of the business required . |
| 27 | The congress also elected as editor-in-chief of the BCP daily newspaper Rabotnichesko Delo Stefan Prodev , a reformist who in November 1988 had been dismissed as the editor of the newspaper Narodna Kultura for his association with the unofficial Club for the Support of Glasnost and Perestroika in Bulgaria [ see p. 36771 ] . |
| 28 | Most of these signed items had been dismissed as the work of mere copyists of Classical and Hellenistic creations , and even the unusual decorative and free-standing sculpture unearthed in the short-lived excavations undertaken at Aphrodisias itself in 1904-5 ( by Paul Gaudin ) and in 1937 ( by Giulio Jacopi ) failed to excite many experts . |
| 29 | Forming the chord of this arc lay the so-called Oosttaverne Line , some 4km/2½mls in length the German trench system that had been selected as the final objective of Plumer 's attack . |
| 30 | Tudjman had been confirmed as the HDZ 's presidential candidate on June 28 . |