Example sentences of "had [verb] as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1955 five Japanese citizens started a legal action against their own government to recover damages for injuries they had sustained as a result of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki . |
| 2 | One such obsolete mentality was religion , which scientists sponsored by Elena Ceauşescu had exposed as a delusion caused by neurological disorders , and which could be cured by simple surgical interventions into the brains of believers . |
| 3 | As they crossed to the supermarket they had to wait as an assistant wearing a jacket over his uniform wheeled a long line of trolleys from a loading bay into the store . |
| 4 | The voluntary hospital , the South Wing of Bedford 's new general hospital , had developed as a result of charity ; private for the most part , but also with financial support from the public sector ; the story of its development until it was combined with St. Peter 's in 1949 is the subject of the following section : |
| 5 | Cole 's extreme anti-semitism had developed as a result of his exposure to the Protocols when he had been involved with allied help to the White Russians in the Civil War in the 1920s . |
| 6 | ‘ The four of us had developed as a group within Arthur Young 's business services group , a department aimed specifically at the entrepreneurial owner-managed private business , ’ Andy explains . |
| 7 | She had done a three-month cookery course and , as a last-ditch attempt to acquire some proper qualifications , she had enrolled as a student teacher with Betty Vacani , in Knightsbridge , who ran dancing classes for tiny tots . |
| 8 | Ted , fortunately , was fluent in ( Belgian ) French because he had flown as a pilot for Sabena for many years and was , I believe , highly thought of by our French colleagues . |
| 9 | There are other images , too : he mentions the " ailanthus " , one of which stood in the yard of the Mary Institute where he had once played , and the " briar rose " by his father 's house in Gloucester ; in addition , he employs words like " rote " or " groaner " which he had heard as a child in New England . |
| 10 | Gas and drainage pipes had broken as a result of the settlement and there was a risk of further breaks . |
| 11 | Recently I sold a number of ‘ profit share ’ shares and found myself left with six shares which I had received as a dividend . |
| 12 | His basic salary as Naval Officer was only $800 a year which was not high for the importance of his position but compared favourably with the $180 a year he had received as an army Captain 3 years earlier . |
| 13 | He looked at the copper bosom covers she had to wear as a belly dancer — and then at the less than fully-endowed nature of Miss Harris 's bust and said cuttingly , ‘ Which way up are they supposed to go ? ’ |
| 14 | Lowe blamed the newspapers and television for transforming the storm clouds of revolution he had sensed as an undergraduate at Sussex University into this thin drizzle of social democracy . |
| 15 | It would still not have been an In re O. situation , unless the director had joined as an applicant for the order . |
| 16 | It would still not have been an In re O. situation , unless the director had joined as an applicant for the order . |
| 17 | Rusche and Kirchheimer themselves admit ( 1939 : 102 ) that imprisonment became the standard method of punishment at a time when the demand for prison labour had fallen as a result of technological and other developments . |
| 18 | In August 1991 the Pentagon revealed that of all US servicemen killed in Desert Storm , one quarter had fallen as a result of friendly fire . |
| 19 | I saw the formation of the Black Workers ' Group and the concessions that we had won as a lever or a rolling stone which would have a knock-on effect . |
| 20 | To own a boarding house required capital in the first instance and to maintain the boarding house as a business venture in the early years the husband had to work as a taxi driver or have a part-time job during the winter . |
| 21 | Then , not more than a week later , I was coming down the back corridor from the kitchen when Miss Kenton came out of her parlour and uttered a statement she had clearly been rehearsing ; this was something to the effect that although she felt most uncomfortable drawing my attention to errors made by my staff , she and I had to work as a team , and she hoped I would not feel inhibited to do similarly should I notice errors made by female staff . |
| 22 | The catalogue has the additional interest of a memoir by Silvio Berthoud , who had sat as a boy between five and eight for his uncle : |
| 23 | In 1991 he had resigned as a member of the FLN 's central committee in order to stand as an independent candidate in the abortive general election of December 1991 . |
| 24 | Chevènement had resigned as a deputy in 1988 on becoming Defence Minister , a post from which he resigned in January 1991 [ see p. 37941 ] . |
| 25 | But Mr Thomas emphatically denied this to The People , stressing that he had resigned as a trustee two years ago . |
| 26 | Marco Maciel , a one-time Collor loyalist , had resigned as the government 's leader in the Senate on Sept. 3 , when he was replaced by Odacir Soares , the deputy leader of the pro-government Liberal Front Party ( PFL ) . |
| 27 | He had achieved a position of some prominence in the Senate between 1942 and 1944 but his choice as Roosevelt 's vice-presidential running mate at the Democratic convention in July 1944 had come as a surprise . |
| 28 | It was because she 'd never taken him seriously that the whole thing had come as a surprise . |
| 29 | Hammie Smillie , head of ScottishPower 's customer service , said in Glasgow yesterday that the introduction of VAT had come as a surprise . |
| 30 | One party had come as a dragon and were doing a conga through the dancing couples , tail disintegrating even as the giant head bobbed up and down . |