Example sentences of "as [was/were] [verb] by [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such situations as were faced by these librarians in the early part of 1986 were not new and no doubt will recur , and librarians may well feel forced to take the same course of action in future . |
| 2 | But presence did not imply influence and such posts as were held by these people , with the exception of Prince Napoleon , were purely honorary . |
| 3 | Far from being antagonistic to the requirements of society — as was assumed by many theorists — infants are genetically biased towards the social and towards displaying social behaviours . |
| 4 | Management would say nothing after the talks , but John Kydd , divisional organiser of the AEEU , said the company had effectively delivered an ultimatum to the union to accept virtually the same package as was rejected by sacked workers nearly two weeks ago or the factory could close . |
| 5 | It is all too easy to make the mistake of treating it as a purely physical problem that can be overcome by renewal , as was discovered by costly experience in the USA during the 1960s and in Britain a decade later . |