Example sentences of "[pron] had [been] [verb] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon after that , I was fortunate enough to obtain a research studentship at U.C.L. which paid me a small salary of 750 per annum — this was slightly less than what I had been earning as a teacher , but it enabled me to return full-time to research at U.C.L. The money for the studentship had been provided by a television network , ATN . |
| 2 | What I experienced as I fell on my knees was a metaphor — I saw the technological society into which I had been born as a Frankenstein body from which the spirit was missing . |
| 3 | I had been enrolled as a student at Canterbury before I went to Cambridge ; during the next four years I was visited by missionaries home on leave from Burma , though nothing definite was said . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | One of the main reasons why I joined the 1990 rebel tour to South Africa was my disappointment with the way I had been used as an England spinner in the previous couple of years . |
| 6 | I had been working as a dai ( midwife ) for the Government since 1974 , but I resigned when they stopped paying my salary and only paid me if I brought in patients to be sterilized . |
| 7 | Five companies have been shortlisted in the bidding for 35% of the Greek Telecommunications Organisation , OTE , this summer , Reuter reports : their indicative bids are expected in June and the sale will be completed in August and the five are Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp , France Telecom , GTE Corp , Telefonica de Espana SA and STET SpA ; STET already has a $160m 20-year licence to develop a cellular mobile phone system in Greece ; AT&T Co , which had been seen as the favourite , withdrew from the bidding . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Tharos , which had been acting as a support vessel to the Piper Alpha platform was anchored close by . |
| 10 | i A coach tour operator has been fined £800 for allowing smoking on a coach tour which had been advertised as a smoke-free holiday . |
| 11 | If confirmed Thomas would reinforce the Supreme Court 's conservative majority which had been created as a result of appointments made during the Reagan-Bush era . |
| 12 | In the case of an establishment which had been designated as a hospital , the medical officer was to be replaced by a medical superintendent and the master by a steward . |
| 13 | Five Turkish soldiers were killed on Aug. 20 in an ambush at Silopi , the town which had been designated as the headquarters of a 1,000-strong Turkish battalion intended to prevent incursions from Iraqi soil . |
| 14 | It was a large , first-floor apartment which had been furnished as a suitable setting for an up-and-coming superstar . |
| 15 | Taylor was subsequently reported to have denied that he wanted to head a proposed interim government , an insistence which had been perceived as a major obstacle in the peace process [ see p. 37994 ] . |
| 16 | He recorded a formal verdict on all four deaths which had been selected as a representative sample of the seventy-three who died from drugs last year . |
| 17 | The council has also built a new art gallery dedicated to local sculptor , Henry Moore , put in an Olympic-sized pool and demolished the squalid 30s housing estate which had been planned as the largest in Europe — in its place stands the brand new West Yorkshire Playhouse . |
| 18 | Collective security , which had been understood as an alternative to the diplomacy discredited by the catastrophe of 1914 , became increasingly difficult to distinguish from the traditional pursuit of a balance of power in Europe . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | All local funds , which had been cut as a result of the introduction of NEP , were poured into famine relief . |
| 21 | In the September 1992 issue of ACCOUNTANCY ( see p 111 ) , we reported a case before the Court of Appeal in which the Court was asked to make a declaration as to whether MS Fashions Ltd and MS Fashions ( Wholesale ) Ltd could be required to pay to Touche Ross , the liquidator of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International , the whole of a combined overdraft of £600,000 , or whether a deposit with BCCI by Mr Sarwar of £300,000 , which had been used as a security for the overdrafts , could be set off against the sum of £600,000 under Rule 4.90 of the Insolvency Rules 1986 . |
| 22 | Wenlock Manor was a small Georgian country house , which had been sold as a hotel twenty years ago . |
| 23 | GCC Interior Ministers met in Kuwait on Nov. 21 and 22 , and Finance Ministers met on Nov. 22 but apparently failed to make progress on proposals for a customs union — a step towards creation of a common market by the year 2000 which had been set as an objective earlier in the year [ see p. 38985 ] . |
| 24 | Nevertheless the manifesto was in respect of nationalisation little more than an elaboration of the party 's one-term programme as accepted at the 1937 conference , with the addition of iron and steel , which had been included as a concession to a radical resolution proposed by Ian Mikardo at the 1944 conference and carried against the advice of the platform . |
| 25 | Among the lands earlier ceded to the abbey of St Denis was the Vexin français , that natural bulwark between the French royal demesne and the now hostile Norman duchy , which had been held as a Norman fief , had formed part of Simon de Crépy 's state ( see p. 216 ) , and finally was reclaimed for the French crown by Philip I. The Vexin had had a comital family , in origin probably the advocates for the abbey ; but Philip had bypassed their claims , granting the territory to the young prince Louis , who met with such opposition in the area that it was not until 1119 that his possession was secured . |
| 26 | Some anomalies which had been arising as a result of the previous piecemeal evolution of means-tested benefit were eliminated . |
| 27 | The motivation for too many people 's lives at this time seems to be the achievement of navigating through the spikes of complex material gadgetry which had been invented as a supposed aid to living . |
| 28 | The syndicate which had been established as a monopoly purchaser of wool found difficulty in enforcing its monopoly . |
| 29 | The Jesuit order , which had been established as the intellectual vanguard of the Church , made many enemies ; but its educational institutions were greatly admired . |
| 30 | These were purchased on price and availability , to provide the largest number of users with a standard machine for basic word-processing , which had been identified as the major requirement for Garden users . |