Example sentences of "[Wh det] was [verb] as the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As no rugby country has won at Parc des Princes since England did so in 1982 ( remember Colin Smart and the after-shave ? ) , this result was a revolution of sorts — which was fitting as the match and its prolonged preliminaries were designed to mark the bicentenary of the French Revolution . |
| 2 | Malaysia was the first ASEAN country to open a diplomatic office in the southern city , which was regarded as the country 's commercial capital and where , according to the VNA report , " a number " of Malaysians were " doing business " . |
| 3 | Imprisonment for ordinary civil debt was abolished by statute in 1970 — another hundred years had had to pass since the enactment of the 1869 measure which was seen as the triumph of liberal attitudes over the centuries-long stand of the powerful trader lobby . |
| 4 | Thus the high-modernist building was able simultaneously to enshrine a notion of pure rationality in systems-building , pure formalism in its opposition to ornament , pure functionality which was seen as the basis of its aesthetic value , and pure style . |
| 5 | The club was to nearly kill the magazine as its losses accumulated , but it also provided a link with the United States which was to snap as the magazine moved towards Little Englandism , or Little Londonism . |
| 6 | Jimmy and Gwenda Cornell , the ARC organising team and all those people from Gran Canaria who help the rally each year , boarded the Spanish Navy corvette , Villa de Bilbao , which was to act as the committee boat . |
| 7 | The original epic style was maintained for the description of Fulk V 's Jerusalem journey and his coronation as king of Jerusalem in 1131 , which was portrayed as the fulfilment of the family destiny , the union of its chivalric and pious traditions . |
| 8 | This valley was watered by the river Froom , and produced huge amounts of milk and butter , more even than Tess 's Vale of Blackmoor , which was known as the Vale of Little Dairies . |
| 9 | Among the apple trees , one hot summer in the 1880s , he dug and puddled a large pond with the help of his two sons , which was used as the family swimming pool for years afterwards . |
| 10 | It would be more correct to say that something which was used as the target has changed , for the " target " is a subjective designation and does not change until management decides to change it . |
| 11 | Shipbuilding had always been important to Saltash , which was chosen as the site for a Royal Naval base and dockyard . |
| 12 | Outcomes for the children and young people were analysed according to the legal route which was taken as the basis for the child 's admission into care . |
| 13 | Sweeney Agonistes takes its audience back not simply to what was seen as the childhood , even babyhood of ritual and civilization , but further down the evolutionary ladder to the most primitive level of that ‘ amorphous protoplasm ’ which makes up the human egg . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , on Sept. 25 , in what was seen as the start of a Western military build-up to force Iraqi compliance with UN resolutions , the US Defence Department ordered the despatch to Saudi Arabia of 1,380 troops equipped with 96 US Patriot missiles . |
| 15 | However , although new members flocked to the movement others resigned in protest against what was seen as the placing of fascist loyalties above patriotic considerations . |
| 16 | The movement thus required economic programmes to parallel political ambitions , which would end what was seen as the domination of capitalism . |
| 17 | The first run was at Stratford-upon-Avon , a place that was used to a different kind of theatre entirely , and ended at what was regarded as the graveyard of intimate revue , Blackpool . |
| 18 | Michael Liley , the Association Director , has pointed out that important changes were in the offing , and it was important to know what was to happen as the change were likely to be found unpleasant in the trade . |
| 19 | Formerly , the system of sub-sub-delegation of authorization ( from Parliament to the Secretary of State to SIB to SRO 's and RPB 's ) hinged on what was known as the principle of equivalence ie. the principle that the rules and codes of an SRO or RPB should afford investors protection at least equivalent to that provided by the SIB 's rules ( see Schedule 2 para 3 FSA 1986 before the new changes were introduced ) . |
| 20 | Er well we 'd er er distribute the leaflets , we 'd er do what was known as the whitewashing , in other words , er er er whitewash slogans , whitewash times of meetings , whitewash the announcement of er er times of arrival , er and things of this character . |
| 21 | The Edwardians were much perturbed by what was known as the problem of ‘ boy labour ’ and the structural unemployment which was built into the labour market for youths . |
| 22 | TDS.3 began development of what was known as the Rotachute in 1941 . |
| 23 | Within a week of the signing of the peace treaty , in April 1895 , Russia , Germany and France had joined forces in what was known as the Triple ( Tripartite ) Intervention . |
| 24 | Reading the plan it is hard to see it as the centrepiece of what was billed as the world 's first green election , in September 1989 . |
| 25 | A Greek oil tanker broke up and spilled 12,000 tonnes of light crude oil off the west coast of Australia on 21 July , creating what was described as the country 's worst such environmental disaster . |
| 26 | The YSP in late January approved what was described as the completion of the final stage of the local elections , but on April 13 it was reported that thousands had demonstrated in Aden to protest over the defeat of the capital 's mayor , Naji Othman , in what was described as a delayed election there which had enabled the YSP leadership to secure the return of its own preferred candidate . |