Example sentences of "[noun] was [vb pp] [adv] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps above all , the closeness of the relationship between husband and wife is often valued more for itself than in the days when marriage was seen mainly as the road to Procreation or when economic and family convenience dictated the union . |
| 2 | This process was initiated just as the economic crisis began to make itself felt in Spain . |
| 3 | " Antiquity " for philological purposes was conceived primarily as the two ancient languages and the literature written in them ; and its " study " was , generally speaking , the province of learned individuals concerned , above all , with the restoration and exegesis of the ancient texts . |
| 4 | Dust was washed away as the rain continued to pelt down . |
| 5 | In 1689 , Presbyterianism was accepted finally as the Faith of the Scottish Kirk and interference by the monarch came to an end . |
| 6 | THE first strike for 18 years among Germany 's 2.3m public sector employees was threatened yesterday as the government rejected a 5.4 p.c. pay rise recommended by arbitrators , writes Robin Gedye . |