Example sentences of "and [was/were] [verb] as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were given permission and were destroyed as the herd of pigs drowned in the lake . |
| 2 | Local politics were considered to be an extension of philanthropic work , and were seen as an extension of women 's domestic sphere . |
| 3 | The Rules for the Sunday School were reaffirmed in 1862 and were used as a basis for the new Sunday School started in Edenderry in 1867 . |
| 4 | CFCs were developed in the 1930s and were hailed as a triumph of science — they were cheap , non-flammable , non-toxic and reacted with very few other substances . |
| 5 | The expected organism was grown from the original site of minor surgery on her back and was confirmed as a type of S aureus producing toxic shock syndrome toxin I. Isolation of such a toxin is diagnostically helpful , but there is substantial evidence that other staphylococcal enterotoxins contribute to a high mortality . |
| 6 | Zhu Rongji , the only one of the three new standing committee members with thorough reformist credentials , was a former mayor of Shanghai and was appointed as a Vice-Premier and economics expert at Deng 's behest in April 1991 [ see p. 38145 ] . |
| 7 | She stood for Parliament , unsuccessfully , as a pacifist Labour candidate in the general election of 1918 , and was appointed as an alderman to Battersea borough council in 1920 . |
| 8 | Heng Samrin retained his post as President of the State Council and was appointed as the party 's " honorary president " . |
| 9 | Together with some other Christian communities , we had bought some land outside the city and some 300 families went to live and farm there , It was called " El Paraiso " and was organized as a co-operative with all the work and profits shared , It was my idea of a truly authentic community . |
| 10 | Kagemni , who was the vizier of the Sixth Dynasty king Teti , was buried in a fine tomb at Saqqara near the pyramid of his king and was revered as a sage . |
| 11 | Then later , in the Possessed notebooks , we read : ‘ Bazarov was created by a man of the 1840s , and was created as a figure without affectation , which means that a man of the 1840s could not create Bazarov without violating the truth . ’ |
| 12 | Louis XVIII , another restored monarch , accepted a constitution in 1814 on condition that the constitution was reasonably ‘ balanced ’ and was seen as an act of grace by the crown and not as an imposition upon it . |
| 13 | Dehaene , 51 , came from the trade union wing of the Flemish Christian Socials ( CVP ) ; he had negotiated the formation of the last coalition in 1988 [ see pp. 36047-49 ] and was seen as an expert mediator . |
| 14 | Although he had served as Reagan 's chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission since 1982 , Thomas was a critic of the quota system for employing racial minorities and was seen as an opponent of affirmative action . |
| 15 | For one thing he had discharged himself from the army and was listed as a deserter ; for another , he had a wife and two children ‘ somewhere in Norfolk ’ . |
| 16 | And the John Lennon hit single ‘ Imagine ’ has been played simultaneously on more than a thousand radio stations worldwide ; it was one of the tributes on what would have been the ex-Beatle 's fiftieth birthday , and was played as an anthem to world peace . |
| 17 | He was trained at Bradford Technical College and the Royal College of Art , and was employed as a textile designer in Bradford until 1911 , when he took up a post as inspector of arts and crafts in the Egyptian Ministry of Education in Cairo . |
| 18 | Tiltman moved to Washington DC after his retirement , and was employed as a consultant by the US National Security Agency . |
| 19 | He started his own practice in the following year , and was employed as a surveyor by the builders Grissell and Peto on Hungerford Market . |
| 20 | Railway No. 3 was to run for over a mile across the open space known as Mitcham Common and was intended as a link between Mitcham and Croydon , with little expectation of intermediate traffic . |
| 21 | In the next century it came to be held as a statute and was regarded as a locus classicus defining at least one boundary between clerical and lay jurisdictions . |
| 22 | The pine cone appeared on many ancient amulets and was regarded as a symbol of fertility . |
| 23 | The strike call was made by the Congress of South African Trade Unions ( COSATU ) and was regarded as a test of the strength of the newly formed Patriotic Front [ see p. 38516 ] . |
| 24 | He was , at the time , a well known art expert who knew Malevich well , had done some work on Mandelstam 's poetry , and was regarded as an expert on Mayakovsky . |
| 25 | This was primarily intended for young people and was planned as an opportunity for combining further education and general stimulus with making friends and having a holiday . |
| 26 | I volunteered and was accepted as a trainee and continue to be involved . |
| 27 | There Tyndale wrote to urge him to avoid any discussion of the Sacraments , but he failed to take this advice and was convicted as a heretic precisely on this question and was burned . |
| 28 | The son of a working-class family , Doisneau developed an early interest in art and was apprenticed as an engraver for a time before he ‘ escaped ’ to work for the sculptor and photographer , Andre Vigneau . |
| 29 | The research was begun in January 1974 , and was designed as a pilot study for a larger project which was not , in the event , carried out . |
| 30 | The first production version appeared in about 1916 , following several years of research and development , and was designed as an attachment for a horse drawn single furrow plough . |