Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adj] as a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In their study of newly-wed couples , Mansfield and Collard found that most expected to be able to apply the contemporary idea that marriage should involve close psychological intimacy to their own circumstances , and many of the women especially were rather disappointed as a result . |
| 2 | As long ago as 1750 , Lord Hardwicke L.C. declared that it would be ‘ very mischievous ’ to seek to make one who was ‘ merely a witness ’ a party in order to obtain discovery ; even if he were properly examinable as a witness , his evidence could not be gathered in advance in this way . |
| 3 | In the same way that repression was less effective than twenty years earlier as an instrument of socio-political control against the anti-Francoist opposition , the spectres of the Republic and the Civil War were less useful as a means of holding the regime forces together . |
| 4 | That they were also impossible as a basis for the next and crucial stage of the Industrial Revolution could have entered into the judgment only of the most prescient . |
| 5 | The dwellings were often damp as a result of their situation ; not only was this chosen to please the owner 's eye , but the cottage was sometimes actually sunk in the earth , in order to preserve a humble outline . |
| 6 | Erm do you think you were quite happy as a child ? |
| 7 | The great novelist , here writing as a criminologist , was evidently seeking to describe a social accompaniment of the transition to a capitalist mode of production , which to him as a magistrate was most evident as a problem of order . |
| 8 | The position before this case was that if a power was properly classifiable as a prerogative power , the courts could decide what the extent of the power was and whether a proper occasion for its exercise had arisen , but they could not decide whether it had been exercised reasonably or fairly . |
| 9 | Indeed , Braveman and Jarvis ( 1978 ) , having argued that their results imply separate mechanisms for the two phenomena , go on to acknowledge the possibility that their results might simply reflect the use of a test procedure that was less sensitive as a measure of conditioning than as a measure of neophobia . |
| 10 | Sartre in particular was especially reprehensible as a consequence of his advocacy of ‘ la littérature engagée ’ — such a delineation of a social and political function for the writer was at direct variance with the formalist prerequisites of the nouveau roman . |
| 11 | In his notice of appeal he contends that the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission made on his behalf that any consideration of the welfare of the children in the context of the exercise of a judicial discretion under article 13 ( a ) of the Convention was only relevant as a material factor if it meant placing the children in an intolerable situation under article 13 ( b ) . |
| 12 | There is no doubt that until he discovered this clothing ( be it artificial carapace or ‘ the whole armour of God ’ ) , Lewis was only half-formed as a writer , as a literary imagination , perhaps as a person . |
| 13 | For Weeks , the purity movement was only significant as a moment of moral panic over sex , condensing wider social and political anxieties . |
| 14 | Despite the crudity of this message , it was extremely popular as a rallying cry because , in calling for shared community values , it so neatly combined Liberal and Conservative fears about the threat from urban democracy . |
| 15 | My second term after Christmas was much smoother as a result but it still held problems . |
| 16 | Perhaps this is to be expected , as Edis was already skilled as a studio photographer . |
| 17 | Claudio Monteverdi ( 1567–1643 ) was already famous as a madrigalist and composer of the operas Orfeo and Arianna but when he brought out his Sanctissimae Virgini Missa senis vocibus … ac Vesperae ( Venice , 1610 ) he had published no church music since the juvenile Cantiunculae Sacrae of the ‘ pupil of the eminent Ingegneri ’ in 1582 . |
| 18 | Alan met Lesley when she was already pregnant as a result of a brief incident at a party that she can barely remember . |
| 19 | Hoomey was being towed along over the field by an animal that was scarcely recognizable as a horse , so thin and sway-backed as it was . |
| 20 | Er about this strike and er but time went on and it became obvious that er nobody were going to win only the boss like this boss , course he was he was scratching through , and so they called the strike off and every person who worked at er every firm had a meeting and they all decided to take so many and every firm took so many of the workers and so nobody was ever unemployed as a consequence of the strike which was very very good . |
| 21 | He was always fine as a soldier or a man of action . |
| 22 | For the others she was still daft as a brush , nervous of her own shadow . |
| 23 | Well I was there about eighteen months and I was still active as a branch secretary for the N U R , the Portobello Branch . |
| 24 | They said Mr Major was deeply concerned as a trade war loomed large . |
| 25 | Though discussed explicitly at times , this was more diffuse as a topic and was inherent in a wide range of concerns . |
| 26 | He was more active as a member of the first Jacobean Parliament , often called upon in his official capacity to supply precedents , but he is best remembered for his diary of the Parliament , which has been described as ‘ indispensable ’ . |
| 27 | Shaun was more difficult as a personality , although I never had any fights with him myself . |
| 28 | Poyntz had married the illegitimate daughter of earl Rivers and was clearly suspect as a result , although the choice of Berkeley , a kinsman , to replace him perhaps implies a wish not to antagonize Poyntz 's associates . |
| 29 | Poyntz had married the illegitimate daughter of earl Rivers and was clearly suspect as a result , although the choice of Berkeley , a kinsman , to replace him perhaps implies a wish not to antagonize Poyntz 's associates . |
| 30 | Provision for the blind and deaf was reasonably comprehensive as a result , although often rather isolated , but provision for the heterogeneous general classes of disability was very slight and uneven between authorities . |