Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1860 eleven independent Cumbrian rifle corps were grouped together as The 1st Admin Battalion of Cumberland Rifle Volunteers . |
| 2 | In this case , these were interpreted mainly as the high cost of land and premises , which could affect companies through the high housing and travel costs ( and therefore possibly wages ) for their workers ( pp. 74–8 ) , and the relative congestion and age of building in cities . |
| 3 | They were taken aback as the huge hangar doors blew in and fortunately they made a move to an interior fortified wall just as the roof was torn off and the building collapsed . |
| 4 | However , due to the short notice , Randalstown would have been without four key players on May 15 which was pencilled in as the reserve date . |
| 5 | The initial study was carried out as the practical project for my MSc course in 1987 . |
| 6 | This operation was carried out as the only possible way of dealing with the menace of the drug dealers . |
| 7 | In the 1980s Britain was coasting along as the fourth-largest west European R&D spender on space — behind France , Germany and Italy . |
| 8 | A BRITISH general was named yesterday as the first commander of Nato 's new Allied Rapid Reaction Corps , heading about 80,000 troops from 11 countries . |
| 9 | HIGHLAND-BORN Dr Catriona Burness was named yesterday as the sixth Glenfiddich Fellow in the Department of Scottish History at St Andrews University . |
| 10 | Tentatively , 23 August 1990 was marked down as the official day of opening , when Ceauşescu would address a quarter of a million loyal subjects from the balcony on the second floor . |
| 11 | On Dec. 1 President Ramaswamy Venkataraman received assurances of " outside " support for a minority National Front government from the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Left Front parties ; the next day V. P. Singh was sworn in as the Prime Minister , in place of Rajiv Gandhi . |
| 12 | Bhairon Singh Shekhawat of the BJP was sworn in as the new Chief Minister on March 3 , replacing Harideo Joshi , Congress ( I ) Chief Minister since early December . |
| 13 | Virendra Verma , a Janata Dal member of the Rajya Sabha , was sworn in as the new Governor on June 14 . |
| 14 | The central government finally relinquished President 's rule on Oct. 17 and Bangarappa was sworn in as the new Chief Minister . |
| 15 | Hiteshwar Saikia was sworn in as the new Congress ( I ) Chief Minister on June 30 . |
| 16 | Bhajan Lal was sworn in as the new Congress ( I ) Chief Minister on June 23 . |
| 17 | Surendra Nath was sworn in as the new governor on Aug. 7 . |
| 18 | Oswaldo Fernandez , was sworn in as the new Director of the National Police Force on Oct. 30 , replacing Gonzalo Menendez Franco who had resigned on Oct. 25 following accusations that he had meddled in politics . |
| 19 | Congress ( I ) won a majority of seats in state assembly elections held in Haryana in May , and in June Bhajan Lal was sworn in as the new Congress ( I ) Chief Minister [ see p. 38287 ] . |
| 20 | Kalyan Singh was sworn in as the new Chief Minister [ see p. 38287 ] . |
| 21 | Congress ( I ) won the State Assembly elections held in early June and Hitashwar Saikia was sworn in as the new Chief Minister [ see p. 38287 ] . |
| 22 | Lallu Prasad Yadav was sworn in as the new Chief Minister in early March [ see pp. 37245 ; 37315 ] . |
| 23 | The Congress ( I ) allied A-IADMK won a clear majority in state assembly elections held in June 1991 ; Jayalalitha was sworn in as the new Chief Minister [ see p. 38287 ] . |
| 24 | After the general election of May 12 , 1991 , Girija Prasad Koirala was sworn in as the new Prime Minister on May 26 and three days later he appointed a new Cabinet [ see p. 38193 ] . |
| 25 | Manning was sworn in as the new Prime Minster on Dec. 17 and on Dec. 20 the new Cabinet took office . |
| 26 | On June 15 Frank de Armas was sworn in as the new Development Minister . |
| 27 | Lizzie was the daughter of a very famous mother , the late Jeannie Robertson , who after her ‘ discovery ’ in 1953 was acclaimed internationally as the outstanding ballad-singer of modern times . |
| 28 | The T and G was the paper 's greatest union supporter from the beginning , and was to end up as the biggest single investor . |
| 29 | Rhos Quarry closed in 1953 — a godsend to Evan 's health as well as his career — and after working briefly in the forestry plantations he was taken on as the first National Nature Reserve Warden of the newly-formed Nature Conservancy Council . |
| 30 | A lack of finance in the budget for a busy season of overseas competition was put forward as the major factor in the composition of the team . |