Example sentences of "[Wh det] had [vb pp] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were : the Zimbabwe United Movement ( ZUM , former ZANU-PF secretary-general Edgar Tekere l. ) , the main opposition party , formed in April 1989 , which incorporated the all-white Conservative Alliance of Zimbabwe ; Zimbabwe African National Union ( Ndonga ) ( ZANU ( Ndonga ) , Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole l. ) which had emerged as a breakaway ZANU faction ; the nationalist United African National Council ( UANC , formerly led by Bishop Muzorewa ) ; and the National Democratic Union . |
| 2 | Ironically for a quarrel which had arisen as a result of a revolt against the colonial taxation imposed to increase the revenue and retrench some of the expenditure on the Seven Years War , the American war doubled national expenditure from £131 million in 1775 to £245 million by 1783 . |
| 3 | The judge also ordered that Lake Resources Inc. , the largely defunct Hakim corporation which had operated as a conduit for Iran-contra funds , should be placed on probation prior to its dissolution . |
| 4 | Their history told of many wars and truces between the villagers and the " men of the trees " , and of how the monkeys would carry their dead down into those same caves which had served as a human burial-ground or , rather , burial-dump since pre-Islamic times . |
| 5 | Under the country 's new Constitution introduced in April 1992 , a single President replaced the old Council of State which had served as a collective presidency . |
| 6 | This sort of interference , which had started as a matter of special favour in special cases , gradually becomes a regular practice . |
| 7 | A leading Right-On thinker , she had co-written the Beyond The Fragments book which had started as a mere pamphlet , but had attracted so much interest that it had been upgraded and sold an extremely respectable 20,000 copies in paperback , having a major effect on its earnest readership . |
| 8 | Jerry Richardson , the coach of the so-called " Mandela United Football Team " which had acted as a bodyguard to Winnie Mandela , was found guilty on May 25 of 11 charges , including the murder of a young ANC activist " Stompie " Moeketsie Seipei in Soweto in late December 1989 [ see p. 36452 ] . |
| 9 | Lee 's most solid achievement was in late April 1991 to terminate the " Temporary Provisions " , the continuation of which had acted as a block to any major political reforms . |
| 10 | Last year an East India company in the tea trade had gone bankrupt , and the court found it had actually been insolvent for a quarter of a century — which had come as a great surprise even to the directors . |
| 11 | What had begun as a jeu d'esprit of a mere 30,000 words or so made Lewis a household name . |
| 12 | What had begun as a schoolgirl crush had grown into a profound and romantic desire to be Charles 's bride . |
| 13 | What had begun as a time saving essential has now become my hobby . |
| 14 | What had begun as a movement of resistance to the new apparatus of militarism , became itself a tolerated part of that apparatus . |
| 15 | What had begun as a bolt of recognition and longing had been diverted into strain . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | What had started as a ‘ new look ’ language course began to be seen as a new approach to teaching children based on a new and popular medium — English . |
| 18 | The alarming thing was that what had started as a lively discussion , had somehow gone sour on the two girls . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In Ryan [ 19921 Crim.L.R. 187 , where the identifying witness was brought to and conducted around the police station where the parade took place by officers involved in the investigation , the Court of Appeal regarded what had occurred as a ‘ substantial breach ’ of the Code , and the subsequent identification of the suspect was admitted in evidence only because there was proof that nothing untoward had in fact been said to the witness by the officers in question . |
| 21 | What had originated as a spontaneous civilian outburst now began to be depicted in the international media as a revolt by Iraq 's majority Shia community , most of whom lived in the southern part of the country . |