Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] as [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rocks , trees , mountains , wells and springs were recognized as receptacles for spirit , displaying in season their various properties , fertilizing , therapeutic and oracular … |
| 2 | This is partly because fishing rights erm were written in erm to the , to the European Community system erm as part of in a sense the agricultural policy , erm because they were regarded as part of food policy , and it was thought that you must have , if you 're going to have a common agricultural policy , and that was one of the important points erm of the negotiations for setting up the European Community , then a common fisheries policy went alongside with that . |
| 3 | His visits were regarded as occasions for embarrassment rather than pleasure or consolation , and he was left wondering why , when his motives were generous , these people should find it so difficult to respond with a matching warmth . |
| 4 | New words and phrases entered the language of education : open plan buildings no longer had classrooms , they had home bases or teaching areas ; the maths bay became a resource area ; teachers worked in teams ; the timetable was replaced by a continually renegotiable programme ; staff rooms were regarded as places of retreat but parents ' rooms were essential . |
| 5 | In France , but not apparently in Vienna , the latter were regarded as flowers of death . |
| 6 | Lifetime gifts such as apprentice premiums or partnership capital or lump sums on marriage were treated as advances on inheritance portions . |
| 7 | THE APPROACH of the Eden Park Test initially was viewed with trepidation , and the majority of the five changes to the home team were seen as signs of disarray rather than as providing fresh blood . |
| 8 | Both were seen as sources of disease , bodily or spiritual , moral corruptions which were spreading throughout the land . |
| 9 | Indians were seen as representing the Vietcong , nineteenth-century negro slaves spoke like members of the Black Power movement , and detailed blood-baths were presented as condemnations of violence . |
| 10 | After an international outcry , the sentences were commuted to life imprisonment , and the couple were adopted as prisoners of conscience by Amnesty International . |
| 11 | In the north , building design had much in common with northern Europe and primarily evolved from Lombard styles ; in central Italy , particularly Tuscany , coloured marbles were used as veneers in decoration both on the outside and inside of the buildings giving a colourful rather than plastic effect to the decoration . |
| 12 | It may give evidence of trade , since coins were used as objects of trade . |
| 13 | Sometimes the workmanship in these archaic stone artefacts was very fine , and it is possible that they were used as insignia of rank , in much the same way as stone maces in the Wessex Culture in southern England ; if so , it is curious that the same obsolete tool became associated with rank in two cultures that were geographically so widely separated . |
| 14 | Fasting volume ( mean of measurements at 15 and 0 minutes before test meal ; V in ml ) and residual postprandial volume were measured as characteristic of gall bladder motility . |
| 15 | They were classified as successes of treatment as subsequent radiological examination had been normal . |
| 16 | These were known as burghs of barony and regality . |
| 17 | The searching self-portraits of Rembrandt in approaching old age , as he became uglier and poorer and more grimy , were acclaimed as masterpieces in preference to the earlier elegant portraiture of his society period . |
| 18 | In early July Mahesh Acharya and Ram Badan Yadav were appointed as Minister of Finance and Minister of Health respectively [ see p. 38339 ] . |
| 19 | Patients requiring more than 10 units of blood on a single admission were defined as failures of sclerotherapy and were referred for surgery — the type of operation being left to the discretion of the clinician involved . |
| 20 | High amplitude propagated contractions ( HAPCs ) were defined as contractions with amplitude of at least 100 mm Hg in at least two recording sites , propagating for at least 30 cm ( over three or more recording sites ) . |
| 21 | In the absence of any reliable direct measure variations were taken as evidence of inefficiency . |
| 22 | In the communist world in the long years before collapse all concessions to the market were resisted as concessions to capitalism ; they were inconsistent with the accepted principles of socialism . |
| 23 | No chair , I would very much like it to be looked at in great detail by the budget review committee , actually , you 'll see in the report that many of these problems were identified as areas of concern by the district auditor prior to the signing of the contract , and he was given , it seems , various assurances which may or may not have been met , and I would like to go into much more detail than would be possible with this committee . |
| 24 | Their ‘ representations ’ of the social effects of the Thatcher decade were welcomed as expressions of dissatisfaction with a number of retrograde tendencies in British public life . |
| 25 | The exhibition seeks to explain the Buddhist spirituality that is central to Tibetan culture : all the works of art in the exhibition were created as objects of worship . |
| 26 | They were to act as trainers for bomber gunners and were armoured accordingly for these manned targets were to be shot at — with frangible bullets ! |
| 27 | Early in the twentieth century , when the success of Ehrlich 's organic compounds had been recognized , organic mercurial compounds were tested as treatments for syphilis . |
| 28 | These were perceived as tools of management , [ who ] were only interested in productivity and in milking as much as possible out of their work force and were thus responded to by a work force who were determined to ensure that their rewards were as high as possible , and thus there was a perceived necessity to fool the time and motion man . |
| 29 | The coal torpedoes had a powder charge inside a hollow cast iron block that was disguised as coal with tar and coal dust . |
| 30 | He was dismissed as Minister of Justice by Banda in 1964 . |