Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Divine Fire ( 1904 ) , which sold as a best seller in the United States , initiated her breakthrough as a novelist . |
| 2 | He said , yeah , there has , which came as a great relief to me and we left it at that . |
| 3 | He had been called up briefly in 1940 , and had not been returned to School for very long before his death , which came as a great shock . |
| 4 | He lived on an invalidity pension which came as a weekly giro : £52.10 . |
| 5 | Two truck loads of clean-up equipment were sent from the Wytch Farm oil spill base at Poole and Wytch Farm later sent a helicopter which acted as a general observation platform . |
| 6 | The Slovak National Council on June 23 elected Ivan Gasparovic as its chair and thus chair of the Council 's presidium which acted as a republican presidency ( there being no Slovak President ) . |
| 7 | At one time , there was one high up on Etna which served as a convenient overnight refuge for geologists watching activity in the crater . |
| 8 | The sawgrass , which served as a vital part in the food chain , is being pushed back by cattails , a dense plant that thrives on the phosphate-rich water . |
| 9 | It is now A423 , which began as a prehistoric ridgeway along the watershed between the Cherwell and the Evenlode . |
| 10 | In Estreito da Calheta is the Church of Nossa Senhora da Graça which began as a sixteenth-century chapel , although the present church dates from 1791 to 1793 . |
| 11 | The group , which began as a four-way partnership in 1979 , is on the verge of lifting its stake in Carat , Europe 's largest independent media buying company , as part of its continuing metamorphosis . |
| 12 | 4 The Sympathetic Hearing Scheme , which started as a joint effort by the Panel of Four and is now administered by the British Association for the Hard of Hearing ( BAHOH ) . |
| 13 | High on the list of these successes is the Development Of Excellence Scheme which evolved as a direct result of the partnership between ESCA , the TCCB and the NCA . |
| 14 | If in Murder in the Cathedral he had chosen a particular martyrdom which functioned as a bloody , savage ritual , then in the plays which followed , connections with primitive ritual would be clearer — if anything , as Eliot later feared when thinking of The Family Reunion , too clear , the primitive outline getting in the way of the Christian story . |
| 15 | The Situationists ' activities within the cultural sphere constituted an attempt to create a unified range of activities which functioned as a radical critique of the conventional boundaries between specialisations embedded in the institutions , practices and agencies of modern life . |
| 16 | As a permanent secretary in the Department of the Environment I was an accounting officer , which meant as a civil servant I was responsible directly to parliament , which also meant I regularly had to go before the Public Accounts Committee . |
| 17 | Company sources said yesterday that British Aerospace and Thomson , who are believed to be negotiating a joint proposal , had not yet put anything to Ferranti which counted as a firm offer . |
| 18 | This amounts to de facto recognition of the unofficial strike committees which emerged as a real power during last summer 's disruption in the Siberian and Ukrainian coalfields . |
| 19 | A staggering 20,000 enquiries followed Pamela 's debut broadcast on the subject of Alar , which emerged as a potential carcinogen in an independent UK survey on pesticide technology ; and enquiries are still flooding in . |
| 20 | ‘ Why not try to look upon whatever happened as a little misdemeanour , ’ Elinor persisted . |
| 21 | What began as a logical extension of growing aristocratic authority became by 1800 a byword for jobbery , corruption and intimidation.6 Until the partial reforms of 1832 , Sussex as a whole sent 24 representatives to the House of Commons . |
| 22 | Thus what began as a specific and separate set of issues involving such matters as landscape change , pesticide use , urban and industrial development , resource depletion , recreational demand and the preservation of rare flora and fauna have been linked together in a much more comprehensive debate about environmental matters . |
| 23 | So what began as a simple strategy to sell denim trews to impressionable , pliable teenage minds became an inter-agency conceptual war as the adpeople convinced themselves that late-Eighties Britain was in the grip of a nostalgia boom . |
| 24 | What began as a blind struggle to stabilize and expand the power of a small group of competitive monarchs in Western Europe threatened the rest of the principalities . |
| 25 | What began as a compelling rejection of a straitjacketing orthodoxy made its criticism in terms of a materialist demand that the socio-political locale of culture be addressed , in the face of an institutionalised aversion to any such examination conducted under a self-serving misrepresentation of the autonomy of art . |
| 26 | What began as a two-part idyll or pastoral has now grown into a full-length epic . |
| 27 | During his 32 years with Blandford Press , what started as a small list mainly of cacti and display books , expanded rapidly in many areas . |
| 28 | What started as a small local meeting for enthusiasts has grown into a spectaular display . |
| 29 | By 1990 it had gone through the familiar process : what started as a compromising fudge had been rationalized as yet another creative act of policy , fitting in with its unique character to a harmonious pattern of public service broadcasting . |