Example sentences of "had [be] [vb pp] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular , ‘ Britain was bounced into surrenders of sovereignty which she would never have accepted if they had been presented as abstract ideas ’ . |
| 2 | I was in Italy and read in the paper that Paul Van Kempen had been appointed as General Music Director in Aachen . |
| 3 | It emerged much later that the first casualties had been on Thursday night — Konserven , one at Gleiwitz , six at Hohnlinden — who had been dressed as Polish soldiers and shot . |
| 4 | George had been toppled as Davidian leader . |
| 5 | It seemed that in a school where he was in such a minority , his language and ethnicity had been defined as particular problems requiring the rather Draconian solution of Statementing . |
| 6 | He was a founder member of the France-Iraq Friendship Association , and within the Socialist Party ( PS ) he led the small " socialism and republic " faction which had voted against the government in the parliamentary vote on the Gulf war on Jan. 16 [ see above ] ; the existence of this faction , together with size of France 's Arab community and the strength of its pacifist movement , had been seen as domestic factors influencing Mitterrand 's eleventh-hour diplomatic initiatives . |
| 7 | And when Charlotte glanced up , she was astonished to see that the ceiling had been painted as one vast rolling cloudscape . |
| 8 | She suffered from diarrhoea with pain and bloating , which had been diagnosed as irritable bowel syndrome . |
| 9 | Miss Lowe had become very ill , her blood sugar level had fallen so low it was unrecordable in a test , and in hospital she had been diagnosed as suffering insulin-induced hypoglycaemia , lack of sugar in the blood . |
| 10 | We eventually managed to reconcile the figures , when we took into account the large number of people who had volunteered to serve on regular engagements in order to participate , but who had been trained as territorial soldiers . |
| 11 | The case in question had been argued as one of relevance of evidence . |
| 12 | Shevardnadze ( appointed in 1985 — see p. 33738 ) had been regarded as one of Gorbachev 's closest allies and personal friends in the leadership . |
| 13 | The argument held that in the past , cities had been regarded as disorganized complexities , and that the objective of planning was to impose rational patterns of simplicity ; Jacobs saw cities as organized complexities , and hoped to keep them lively , diverse and intense . |
| 14 | The Party was continuing to appeal to those who , in the past , had been regarded as least sympathetic to the labour movement . |
| 15 | A Staff Committee had been mooted as one way of overcoming these difficulties . |
| 16 | The Ministry of Agriculture statement said that the warning had been intended as preventative advice . |
| 17 | That was after the war ; during the war itself she had been known as just M , wherever she went . |
| 18 | The term ‘ community ’ in this context meant something because it had been experienced as such . |
| 19 | All 59 had been classified as economic migrants rather than genuine political refugees , and the majority were " double backers " who had previously voluntarily returned with financial assistance from the UN , but had fled Vietnam a second time . |
| 20 | Jewel Lafontant , the United States co-ordinator for refugee affairs , said on March 16 that the United States would accept half of any new Vietnamese boat people fleeing to Hong Kong , as long as they were considered to be genuine refugees ; only 11 per cent of those as yet screened in the colony had been classified as such . |
| 21 | The centres of pillow lace-making were to be found in the South Midlands and some districts in Devon , where the craft had been established as one of the many new projects of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . |
| 22 | Even the tough German infantrymen had been used as human mules , lugging the heavy shells up on their backs . |
| 23 | In addition , upwards of 1,500 civilians had been imprisoned as both sides added ethnic hatred to factional rivalry by seizing civilians , singled out by personal identity cards denoting their ethnic origin . |
| 24 | On Dec. 6 Ershad was forced to relinquish power and handed over control of the government to Chief Justice Shehabuddin Ahmed who had been nominated as Acting President by the main opposition alliances . |