Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bermuda discussions were brought before the British Cabinet on 4 February ; Lord Winster said that the talks were only preliminary , but the Americans were treating them as a final agreement . |
| 2 | Amir Taheri , an Iranian author , said on television that all the governments with hostages in Lebanon — America , France , Germany , Britain , South Korea — were treating it as a bona-fide political problem — apart from Britain . |
| 3 | It 's decreased traffic it 's decreased the traffic for what was using it as a commercial premises . |
| 4 | So he resorted to an old favourite , which was to imagine himself as a First World War fighter ace engaged in an aerial duel with an enemy pilot . |
| 5 | At the time of Cats , for example , there were lots of offers to turn that into a film , but his instinct was to keep it as a musical play and hold off the film offers . |