Example sentences of "had [vb pp] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the previous summer , Coleman had acted as technical adviser to the Cypriot Police Force Narcotics Squad ( CPFNS ) and helped train its officers in the use of communications , surveillance and other electronic gear paid for by the United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control ( UNFDAC ) . |
| 2 | Don Roberto had worked with the Colonel and had acted as cut-out between him and the CIA on the operations which Trent had undertaken on the Americans ' behalf . |
| 3 | It was the home of a very wealthy man , a man she had recognised as wealthy the moment she had seen him . |
| 4 | and to appear in court , he found himself caught up in a drama in which he had been cast as The Defendant , facing the man he had known as Rich whom everyone called The Plaintiff , and being called to order by someone he had never heard of before called The Registrar and his right hand man The Clerk of the Court — and all in the unfamiliar setting ( set ) of a courtroom . |
| 5 | By this he means that the principle he had known as dominant in his life was the principle of sin and the death to which it inevitably led . |
| 6 | On the other hand the new Deputy Prime Minister in charge of finance and the economy , Boris Fedorov , Russia 's representative at the World Bank , was a radical reformer who had served as Russian Finance Minister in 1990 . |
| 7 | Singh had served as Prime Minister since early December 1989 . |
| 8 | Chatichai , leader of the Chart Thai Party and a member of the House of Representatives , had served as Prime Minister since 1988 [ see pp. 36149-50 ] . |
| 9 | Opposition leader Tupua Tamasese Efi — who , as Tupuola Tamasese Efi , had served as Prime Minister in 1976-82 — lost his seat , thereby allowing Va'ai Kolone , Prime Minister in 1986-1988 , to resume leadership of the opposition . |
| 10 | Koirala 's brother , B. P. Koirala , had served as Prime Minister in 1959-60 following the country 's previous brief experiment in multiparty democracy . |
| 11 | The following day Wilfried Martens , who had served as Prime Minister of different coalitions since December 1981 , resigned . |
| 12 | Djohar , 72 , who was sworn in for a six-year term on March 20 , was a former President of the Supreme Court and had served as interim President since the assassination of President Ahmed Abdallah Abderrahman in November 1989 [ see p. 37033 ] . |
| 13 | The radio also cited " press sources " as saying that Mohammad Rabah al-Tawil , who had served as Interior Minister under Atasi , had also been released . |
| 14 | He had served as commissary to Edmund Scambler [ q.v. ] , bishop of Norwich , and continued his career as ecclesiastical administrator until his death . |
| 15 | The appointment of Kang , 67 , a Moscow-trained economic technocrat who had served as Premier from 1984 to 1986 , was widely interpreted as indicative of Kim Il Sung 's recognition of the urgent need to reform the country 's highly centralized and largely moribund economy . |
| 16 | He had held a number of minor Cabinet posts and had served as Chief Cabinet Secretary under Takeshita . |
| 17 | Mr Ott had served as general secretary of Brot für Alle ( Bread for All ) for 17 years , and was a long-standing friend of WACC . |
| 18 | Gaidar had served as joint First Deputy Prime Minister since May , having formerly been Finance Minister . |
| 19 | Rabbani had served as acting president since June 1992 [ see pp. 38968 ; 39146 ] . |
| 20 | Among them was Abdelaziz Bouteflika , who had served as Foreign Minister for 16 years , Belaid Abdessalam , a former Energy Minister who had publicly criticized Chadli 's energy policy , and Kasdi Merbah , the previous Prime Minister . |
| 21 | Ho had served as Foreign Minister between 1970 and 1983 , during which time North Korea aggressively competed against South Korea for international recognition . |
| 22 | This was followed by a life of E. F. L. Wood , first Earl of Halifax [ q.v. ] , whom he had served as parliamentary private secretary in 1938–9 , published as Halifax ( 1965 ) . |
| 23 | Yeutter , 60 , had served as Special Trade Representative in the Reagan administration and was president of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange from 1978 to 1985 . |
| 24 | Some of their careers will be considered in later chapters , but they were not essentially different from those Angevin officers , such as Robert of Thornham , who had served as seneschal of Poitou and Gascony during the crisis of 1202–4 . |
| 25 | At a victory rally Thorne stated that all four seats could have been won for Labour if they had fought as pro-ally candidates ( SE 1 January 19 ) . |
| 26 | In this case the most obvious other persons available are the sons of the wife 's sisters , whom the testator had suggested as possible beneficiaries . |
| 27 | Henry Brett and James Lucas scored two goals each for England , who had qualified as European champions . |
| 28 | Self was a career civil servant who , after a wartime spell in Washington , had returned as Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Civil Aviation . |
| 29 | The Manchu 's two companions were the men whom Suragai had described as non-commissioned officers . |