Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] as [noun] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , before leaving the harmful insects , mention must be made of horrid little blighters that for long were regarded as exceptions to the normal methods of control . |
| 2 | An emotional reunion after more than fifty years has taken place today , between two Britons who were evacuated as children to the United States and their American foster mother . |
| 3 | These flat files were used as inputs to the contig-building software , together with ancilliary files giving information about the positions of any mapped probes and any contigs that had been determined previously . |
| 4 | The Science Policy Research Unit at Sussex were appointed as advisers to the project . |
| 5 | Nobody will ever know exactly how many millions of young men and women were taken as slaves to the Americas during those terrible four hundred years . |
| 6 | Nizan could have been under no illusions as to the fate of those who were perceived as traitors to the party . |
| 7 | After Oxford he was recommended as tutor to the son of William Cavendish , First Earl of Devonshire . |
| 8 | Michael Joyce was known as landlord to the Royal Irish Constabulary in the town . |
| 9 | The god of fertility , wine and drunkenness in Greek mythology , Dionysius was known as Bacchus to the Romans . |
| 10 | Eros was known as Cupid to the Romans . |
| 11 | He succeeded his brother James as second baronet in 1761 , gained election as a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries , and was appointed as chirographer to the Court of Common Pleas in 1766 . |
| 12 | From 1699 onwards , when A. A. Matveev was sent as minister to the United Provinces , a network of diplomatic representatives abroad comparable in its extent and efficiency to that of any European State was rapidly created . |