Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [to-vb] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Englishness , as a sense of racial or spiritual identity , had come to function as a stabilizing force within the field of professional English studies , rather than providing the authority for a programme of cultural intervention . |
| 2 | By the time Penry Vaughan came downstairs again she was deep in the adventures of a lady who had decided to dress as a boy to search for her lost crusading husband . |
| 3 | It is a measure of the seriousness of the arguments we put that , more than six months later , the Department still failed to issue the ruling , which it had promised to deliver as a matter of some urgency . |
| 4 | The firm had agreed to act as a supervisor under the Companies Creditors Arrangement Act for the United Maritime Fishermen Cooperative in December 1987 . |
| 5 | ( On the formation of the NAR administration in December 1986 Gordon had agreed to serve as a minister for a period of three years . ) |
| 6 | The result may be that , what a company had hoped to treat as a minor domestic matter which could be brushed under the carpet , is exposed to the harsh light of day . |
| 7 | Nor had he wished to descend to the level of bureaucracy : he had hoped to succeed as a violinist , but lack of money ( and perhaps some want of talent , to which he did not admit ) had stood in his way . |
| 8 | On odd days , a young woman who had gone to work as a governess at a remote Scottish house wrote to an employer she never saw about portraits which moved in the middle of the night and which , the governess wrote , appeared to speak monosyllabic expressions of agony . |
| 9 | Quitting after a fracas he had gone to work as a literary agent and had prospered . |
| 10 | Only the Annual General Meetings of the Board in 1858 and 1859 are recorded — extremely briefly — in the Minute Books , for by 1860 the High School had ceased to exist as a separate entity . |
| 11 | They related to the constitutional arrangements which existed between 1974 and the end of 1986 whereby the General Council of the Bar had become part of the new Senate of the Inns of Court of the Bar and had ceased to exist as a separate entity , although the constitution of the Senate contained provisions designed to ensure that the Bar Council would remain an autonomous body for the purpose of its separate powers and functions . |
| 12 | And because Barlaston had ceased to function as a house in the 1930s , and had not been modernized for many years before that , it was in a remarkably unaltered state and thus an important archaeological document . |
| 13 | It had ceased to operate as a flour mill as early as 1938 and in the immediate post-war period it was used as a seed store . |
| 14 | First , ‘ nationality ’ , ever since the union with England , had continued to exist as a basis of collectivity in Scotland : in Scotland 's distinctive cultural patterns and traditions , distinct legal and educational systems , distinct administrative apparatus , and industrial structure . |
| 15 | Imagine the result if Mr Salomon had continued to trade as a sole proprietor ; he would have been personally liable to the full extent for all business debts incurred . |
| 16 | Yet even before the time of this fictional dialogue , set in the 1870s , Jesus and the origins of Christianity had begun to emerge as a burgeoning industry for researchers , writers and publishers . |
| 17 | By the mid 1930s , he had begun to rule as a royal dictator without the benefit of independent counsel . |
| 18 | It was not only that , by 1837 , the structure and contents of houses had begun to change as a result of early mass production , but that society itself had undergone a ( technically ) peaceful revolution , incidentally undermining the consensus that the middle-class house was a scaling down of the houses of the great . |
| 19 | Savary 's statements show that the 17th century bill of lading had begun to function as a ‘ necessary ’ document ; only by showing the document could Savary 's shipper-owner claim lawful possession of the goods he had shipped in his own vessel . |
| 20 | Instead , he was articled to his father who , later in 1857 , had begun to practise as a consulting engineer in London . |
| 21 | But sixteen was a man and when he had begun to drown as a man there was nothing they could or did do to step in and help . |