Example sentences of "[noun sg] were [vb pp] as the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Measures passed by those of a different political hue were described as the work of a ‘ previous government ’ . |
| 2 | Winans was aware that Journal policy was to keep the contents of the column secret prior to publication and that the contents of the column were regarded as the Journal 's confidential information . |
| 3 | Amplitude and duration of contractions at each recording site were calculated as the average of 10 swallows . |
| 4 | Basal , sham fed , and maximal acid output were defined as the sum of the four 15 minute outputs in each period . |
| 5 | The enclosed fields of the manorial lord were known as the demesne . |
| 6 | The promise of security and the expectation that wages would rise with promotion and seniority were offered as the reward for sacrificing the ability to move easily between employers . |
| 7 | Individual conduct and moral reformation were seen as the key to public health . |
| 8 | Single-member districts ( known in Britain as constituencies ) of roughly equal electoral size were prescribed as the norm . |
| 9 | The treasury officials numbered the royal possessions every two years , so that the years of a given reign were designated as the Year of , say , the Third Numbering , or the Year after the Third Numbering , and so on . |
| 10 | Now the aldermen and magnates of the city were ignored as the folkmoot elected Fitzthomas mayor in the Octobers of 1263 and 1264 . |
| 11 | In the first place , diplomatic and political history were regarded as the centre of the discipline — the transaction of government business from month to month and year to year so that , according to the progenitors of the new approach , one could be forgiven for thinking that the only Frenchmen who had lived were cabinet ministers . |
| 12 | To achieve this , the interviewees of the first stage were used as the basis of a series of ‘ snowball ’ samples from the ‘ hidden ’ sector . |