Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] it as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Churchill gave his first broadcast , suggesting that the Labour Party might have to resort to ‘ some form of Gestapo , no doubt very humanely directed in the first instance ’ , the electors were bound to regard it as a gross exaggeration ; Attlee , following the next night , could readily ask his audience to distinguish between ‘ Winston Churchill , the great leader in war of a united nation , and Mr Churchill the party leader of the Conservatives ’ . |
| 2 | It was decided to adopt it as the standard background , keeping open the possibility of using pieces of velvet in special cases . |
| 3 | However , what is most interesting is that a deliberate attempt was made to sell it as a concept rather than as what might have hitherto been seen as a package of infrastructural measures . |
| 4 | Before the Tate/LaBianca murders happened , however , Charles Manson was attempting to make it as a rock star . |
| 5 | The opposition had persistently opposed such a change , arguing that Roh — who was constitutionally prohibited from serving more than one five-year term as President — was planning to use it as a means of retaining power . |