Example sentences of "had [be] [verb] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Foolishly , I had not bothered to carry out any of the psychic protective techniques I had been taught as a ‘ probationer healer ’ at a school of esoteric studies . |
| 2 | Souza 's commitments were no doubt the more complicated because he had been raised as a Catholic , and had been taught that the eroticism of Hindu religious philosophy was wicked . |
| 3 | Lord Widgery ( who had succeeded Lord Parker as Lord Chief Justice ) had been appointed as a one-man tribunal of enquiry to enquire into the events of ‘ Bloody Sunday ’ which led to thirteen civilian deaths in Londonderry . |
| 4 | The election result enhanced the stature of Kaifu ( who had been appointed as a caretaker leader in 1989 ) and reduced the amount of factional conflict within the ruling party . |
| 5 | She had been adopted as a small child by the counsellor 's wife , now dead — so said my companion , adding that it was well known that she would marry Victor , and so come into a deal of money . |
| 6 | ‘ State Department officials were unavailable for comment , ’ the New York Times reported , thereby hinting at the source of the leak , but if the story had been aired as a trial balloon , it failed to lift off . |
| 7 | It looked like it had been built as a rag trade sweatshop at the turn of the century and was sandwiched between a musical equipment shop and The Tin Pan Alley Club — which was a notorious music biz drinking den . |
| 8 | The hospital had been built as a memorial to King Edward VII and it had seen better days . |
| 9 | As for the old houses , there were none in the immediate area that I knew of , other than these which had been built as a nostalgic memento , as a reminder , as a gift both to himself and his family from a man who must have known innately that in discarding the past his people were in danger of losing their touchstone . |
| 10 | It was his private theory that Woodfield Council estate had been built as a series of experiments in wind-tunnelling . |
| 11 | It had been planned as a separate men 's and women 's race , with the latter being sent off 20 minutes earlier , but only Dorre managed to stick to the plan , winning in 2hr 29min 38sec . |
| 12 | The day had been planned as a display of condemnation of the recent wave of neo-Nazi attacks on foreigners and Holocaust memorials . |
| 13 | The journalists , who were allowed free access to the site and were able to file reports without censorship , found no evidence of a military presence within the bunker which had been constructed as a civilian shelter during the Iran-Iraq war . |
| 14 | Graham J found that such information was not readily available and went on to say that the information had been obtained as a result of considerable labour and expense on the part of the plaintiffs and was therefore valuable and , it followed , confidential . |
| 15 | The firebombing of the Sherman & Grant office premises had underlined the lesson , while taking care of the possibility that the elder one may have kept the severed finger he had been sent as a warning . |
| 16 | She had been discovered as a fourteen-year-old Moscow prostitute when she decided to take on the whole of a KGB barrackroom who were in need of relief . |
| 17 | Also on June 9 , immediately after the close of polls , Jan Budaj , Deputy Chairman of the Slovak National Council ( parliament ) and a leading PAV candidate for the Council , announced that he was withdrawing his candidacy , saying that he had been registered as a collaborator with the StB in the 1970s . |
| 18 | Dr Hadley , who had asked the questions , ceased to play with the two-toned ball pen he had been using as a remote muscle of his tongue . |
| 19 | If I shifted my weight on to the shoulder these mugs had been using as a football , the pain took away my thoughts from the throbbing ache in my head . |
| 20 | Zhivkov had been called as a witness in the trial , beginning on Feb. 13 , of Stoyan Ovcharov , who had been removed as Minister of Economy and Planning and as a candidate member of the former Bulgarian Communist Party politburo immediately after Zhivkov 's fall from power . |
| 21 | ‘ She had n't been harmed , but she said Edouard was attacked while she was there and it had been done as a warning to her . |
| 22 | All local funds , which had been cut as a result of the introduction of NEP , were poured into famine relief . |
| 23 | He had been re-elected as a candidate of the successful Hungarian Democratic Forum ( MDF ) in 1990 but subsequently left the MDF . |
| 24 | Walter Pater was a master of atmosphere ; he had been inspired as a young man by Ruskin , and his idealism about art and his fine prose were in turn much admired by a younger generation of aesthetes , among whom Oscar Wilde was a prominent figure . |
| 25 | The United Ulster Unionist Council ( UUUC ) had been formed as a coalition of the Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party , the Democratic Unionist Party , and the Unionists led by Harry West . |
| 26 | Randolph Henry Ash 's Proserpine had been seen as a Victorian reflection of religious doubt , a meditation on the myths of Resurrection . |
| 27 | What had been seen as a possible threat to public health had transformed into a darling of venture capital with resulting controversy over the protection of academic virtue . |
| 28 | Formerly , socialization had been seen as a kind of ‘ clay moulding ’ . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The Fort , constructed in a lagoon by the Dutch in the 17th century , had little strategic value , but had been seen as a symbolic representation of the authority of the government in the Tamil heartlands of the Jaffna peninsula . |