Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [vb pp] as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The claimant could not be described as the lawful holder of the bill of lading unless a given copy or all the copies issued by the carrier were designated as the original bill or set of bills . |
| 2 | However , for many years North Shields and Tyne mouth were combined as the small County Borough of Tyne mouth ( 70% of which was made up of North Shields ) . |
| 3 | Economics , sociology , mathematics , law and accounting were suggested as the essential subjects , and although colleges could provide liberal studies also , ‘ we would stress the importance we attach to a liberal treatment of the whole curriculum ’ . |
| 4 | The continuing reluctance of the US Administration to agree to any specific targets on emissions or third-world aid was identified as the principal brake on progress . |
| 5 | FitzRoy died in 1865 and two years later the department was reconstituted as the Meteorological Office under a meteorological committee appointed by the Royal Society . |
| 6 | The programme was known as the European Nutrition and Health Initiative and heralded the European Year of Nutrition , planned for 1994 . |
| 7 | In the Ministry of Defence , the programme was known as the functional costing system and was closely modelled on the programme structure then in use by the Pentagon . |
| 8 | Total care within a segregated institutional setting was seen as the best answer to the social and individual problems arising from mental disorder . |
| 9 | On 11 January 1990 all three of the then directors resigned , and the applicant was appointed as the sole director , with Miss Susan Bird as secretary . |
| 10 | On the one hand , large-scale machine industry was seen as the necessary prerequisite for socialism . |
| 11 | The ANLT was selected as the best available rule-based parser to use . |
| 12 | Skomer Island off the Dyfed ( formerly Pembrokeshire ) coast was chosen as the specific target as it should by now have been a statutory Marine Nature Reserve . |
| 13 | The perceived prime advantage of residential homes was being well cared for and companionship ; the costs and loss of independence were perceived as the main disadvantages . |
| 14 | Consequently , prescriptive analysis was ambiguous : sustained export demand , not subject to stop/go was seen as the driving force yet dependent on improved competitiveness ; whether this improvement was itself dependent on export demand was never clearly specified . |
| 15 | Law and Baker 's joint transfer was greeted as the second coming . |
| 16 | The intelligence test was seen as the direct means of overcoming class difference in access to schooling — although this remained a means of social reform , not reform itself . |
| 17 | The issue of the transformation to political pluralism was regarded as the main obstacle to progress in the peace talks between the government and the Mozambique National Resistance ( Renamo or MNR ) , which resumed for a second round in Rome on Aug. 14 . |
| 18 | The discovery was hailed as the scientific sensation of the century and a huge search for another specimen was mounted . |
| 19 | Input feature vectors were compared to those of the dictionary words , and the word with the best match was chosen as the recognised word . |
| 20 | The crisis was described as the worst of its kind in Europe since the end of the Second World War . |
| 21 | The percentage time spent in each pH category for each group was expressed as the median-interquartile range . |
| 22 | As far as possible , the social conditions of the traditional system of mining were restored , while the ‘ three-task ’ group was defined as the new primary work group for coal mining operations . |
| 23 | This is the first controlled trial of a bismuth enema preparation in patients with distal ulcerative colitis. 5-Aminosalicylic acid was used as the alternative treatment because it is one of the most effective topical treatments available . |
| 24 | SKNSH RNA was included as the positive control for the human NF-L protected fragment of 154 nucleotides ( nt ) , while RNA from HeLa cells transfected with the β-globin gene alone was used as the positive control for the β-globin 212 nt signal , both indicated by arrows . |
| 25 | SKNSH RNA was used as the positive control to detect the human NF-L protected fragment of 121 nucleotides ( nt ) . |
| 26 | SKNSH RNA was used as the positive control to detect the human NF-L protected fragment . |
| 27 | SKNSH RNA was used as the positive control for the transgene signal . |
| 28 | In Kharkov and Poltava lack of fuel was cited as the worst problem of all . |
| 29 | Not surprisingly , customer demands for lower charges and improved service were cited as the major source of competitive pressure in the industry ( reported by over 55 per cent of all operators ) . |
| 30 | Peak acid output was defined as the two highest consecutive 15 minute outputs after pentagastrin , multiplied by two to express the results as mmol/h . |