Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [to-vb] [pers pn] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as I am concerned , four-day cricket is worth a go , and the committee were right to endorse it as a means to aid the development of future England cricketers . |
| 2 | Can I come with you ? ’ by people who were keen to see what happened and who were prepared to treat it as a spectator sport . |
| 3 | But do you agree that we should put diplomatic pressure that George Bush should , the Europeans should , Douglas Hurd should , and say look guys whatever you do , if it , though were prepared to recognise you as an independent state , do n't take it out on the Russians ? |
| 4 | Indeed , many of John 's contemporaries were prepared to regard him as the Messiah . |
| 5 | With deep blue eyes and springy fair hair , the athletic Dane would be the answer to many a maiden 's prayer , yet while Ashley was grateful to have him as a friend and business associate she had no inclination for their relationship to deepen . |
| 6 | Henry 's anti-papalism was based on the belief that the pope had wrongfully usurped the spiritual and temporal power which had traditionally belonged to the kings of England , and while he therefore rejected the pope 's claim to jurisdiction in England , he was prepared to regard him as the rightful Bishop of Rome . |
| 7 | Signor Valenti was willing to accept him as a son-in-law . |
| 8 | As though you know erm after all head known all about it this is the to himself and by doing that then abbreviated then , that 's when the reader was supposed to take it as a thought process rather than a |
| 9 | It was ludicrous to see them as a threat to security . |
| 10 | He donated the Lateran Palace to the Bishop of Rome , and Rome was able to use it as a means of establishing supremacy over rival centres of Christian authority in Alexandria and Antioch . |
| 11 | A few days later , immediately alongside the busy M40 , a pause at traffic-lights enabled me to glance at a dense assembly of birds , as closely-packed as starlings , extending for almost a quarter of a mile along the edge of the arable field , and I was able to identify them as a mixture of Lapwing and ‘ goldies , ’ all immobile , and many of the latter with their heads tucked in as if fast asleep . |
| 12 | Toby , next morning , was inclined to regard it as a great victory . |
| 13 | I do not know where Henry Green picked up the erroneous information that Ivy had been a governess , but thinking of some of her sibylline utterances it was tempting to imagine her as a royal and imperial governess at Thebes and Mycenae . |