Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liu Huaqing , a 76-year-old general and the new vice-chair of the CMC , was elected to represent the military , as the sole military member of the standing committee ; he was regarded as a political neutral , and was described by the Far Eastern Economic Review of Oct. 29 as a " no-nonsense professional " who would push for depoliticization and modernization of the military . |
| 2 | Durham was a regular attender at Mr Kendal 's church and he was regarded as a strong reliable man whose word could be trusted . |
| 3 | In the House of Lords , as in the House of Commons , he was regarded as a leading authority on patent and trade-mark law . |
| 4 | He was regarded as a popular rival of , and possible replacement for , the Prime Minister and current ANAP leader , Yildirim Akbulut . |
| 5 | He badgered the State Department in an attempt to gain recognition but he was regarded as a tiresome person of no real importance by the bureaucrats in the Roosevelt administration . |
| 6 | He was regarded as the classic book lover . |
| 7 | He was regarded as the professional equivalent of Fred Perry but , as a professional , was never allowed to play for his country . |
| 8 | He was amused to discover that , despite two years in the merchant navy , he was regarded as an unspoiled youth by those who , like Minton , resented the de-naturalising effect of privilege and the public school system . |
| 9 | He was regarded as an independent , but increasingly he became Aung San 's adviser , supplying the inside knowledge of British forms of government and administration which Bogyoke lacked . |
| 10 | Failing to achieve this , he was licensed as a dissenting preacher in January 1754 , had a meeting-house built for him at Warburton in Cheshire , and on 9 November 1754 was ordained as an Independent minister . |
| 11 | He was recognised as an excellent judge of Clydesdales and within ten years his horses were winning the breed 's major honours . |
| 12 | He acquired his interventionist leaning at Harold Wilson 's Industrial Reorganisation Corporation , where he was recognised as an up-and-coming young manager by Lord Kearton , the charismatic chairman of Courtaulds . |
| 13 | What set Sadler apart from his contemporaries and rivals in Britain and France , was that he was acknowledged as the first to consciously apply science , to aerostation . |
| 14 | He was hit as an eight-man patrol returned to base in the IRA stronghold of Crossmaglen , South Armagh . |
| 15 | Mike Fesemeyer , a former colleague who now analyses bank shares for Nomura , says : ‘ Even in the 1970s he was perceived as a future chief executive or at least one of the bank 's fast track graduates . |
| 16 | As a result , when Richard Baxter arrived at the camp , he was seen as a Royalist sympathiser . |
| 17 | He was seen as a supreme First Division predator , with a sequence of seven top-flight goals in just ten games in the mid-winter months as Palace pursued Arsenal and Liverpool at the top of the table ; he was also offered additional encouragement with recognition at the England B level . |
| 18 | After the event it looks very much as if his campaigns overstrained the resources of his empire and made it impossible to hold together , but at the time he was seen as the greatest of conquerors . |
| 19 | He had moreover made himself disagreeable to many contemporary naturalists , and his posthumous reputation has been well below what it was in his earlier life , when he was seen as the British Cuvier . |
| 20 | He was seen as an enlightened despot pursuing liberal policies in the face of dogmatic reaction from priests and landlords . |
| 21 | In a shadowy corner of the cook tent , Ngo Van Loc crouched beside an upturned packing case that he was using as a makeshift writing-table . |
| 22 | He was accepted as a younger brother of the Hull Trinity House in 1749 , eventually becoming an elder brother and three times warden , 1779 , 1785 , and 1792 . |
| 23 | Secondly , he was accepted as the single-handed architect and creator of Germany 's ‘ economic miracle ’ of the 1930s , eliminating the scourge of mass unemployment which continued to plague other European nations , revitalizing the economy , providing improved living standards , and offering a new basis of lasting prosperity . |
| 24 | He was one of nine commanders , including Zhukov and Rokossovsky , whose pictures were prominently featured on the cover of Pravda on 13 December , and he was selected as a suitable subject for interview by foreign correspondents . |
| 25 | He was reviled as a so-called atheist but otherwise his thought received little attention , only becoming a main force in philosophy when it was rediscovered by German philosophers in the nineteenth century . |
| 26 | At the age of fourteen he was sent as a private pupil to the Revd Alfred North , who ran a small school for dissenters in Oundle , and he spent two years pursuing classical studies there . |
| 27 | In 1642 he was acting as a commissary , or supply officer , at Chester , sending provisions over for the Anglo-Scottish forces in Ireland . |
| 28 | By 1880 he was recognized as an international authority on alkali manufacture . |
| 29 | In 1970 he was appointed as the first honorary consul in Scotland for the republic of Turkey , a post in which his understanding and knowledge of the country was of great help to those in need . |
| 30 | While a number of writers have profited from Eco 's example , they seem less exercised by the specifically creative problems with which , if we are to follow the Reflections , he was faced as a working author , not least the problems of how to say anything about anything without sounding unbearably false : |