Example sentences of "it had [been] [verb] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A second inscription on the opposite side reveals that it had been given as a wedding present to the employer himself in 1838 . |
| 3 | Over the past year she had had various painful illnesses and eventually it had been diagnosed as a recurrence of cancer . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | For too long it had been treated as a Cinderella service . |
| 7 | Professor Hoskins was particularly interested in the Banbury Lane , largely because it had been identified as a prehistoric trackway by archaeologists in the 1950s , shortly before he wrote this book . |
| 8 | It had been founded as an irregular unit for service in the Western Desert by Colonel David Stirling , then a subaltern in the Scots Guards . |
| 9 | When the Hewers bought Vine House it had been used as a dormitory for an air Force course int he village during the war . |
| 10 | well this , no , fifty one , er this was the last house to be completed on this estate because it had been used as a paint store and we were the very last people |
| 11 | In a default action where the plaintiff 's claim is amended by adding or substituting a claim which could not have been made in a default action , the action continues as if it had been commenced as a fixed date action ( Ord 15 , r 2(2) ) . |
| 12 | It had been re-affirmed as a centre-piece of Roman-Catholic social philosophy in the Encyclical ‘ Quadrogesimo Anno ’ of 1931 , some time after it had been enshrined in various pieces of German social welfare legislation in the 1920s . |
| 13 | It was his first encounter with Zhou , director in Hong Kong of the New China News Agency , who had been on sick leave ; it had been billed as a " get to know you " meeting , which would sidestep controversial issues . |
| 14 | Coun. Alan Robinson ( Lab ) said towns all over Europe had introduced pedestrian-only shopping for at least part of the day and it had been hailed as a great success . |
| 15 | It had been described as an exclusive enclave for the rich and privileged , an escapist 's paradise , a tropical slice of heaven on earth … and so the praise went on . |
| 16 | It had been established as a close relative of adrenaline , named noradrenaline , late in the 1940s . |