Example sentences of "which was [verb] as the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As no rugby country has won at Parc des Princes since England did so in 1982 ( remember Colin Smart and the after-shave ? ) , this result was a revolution of sorts — which was fitting as the match and its prolonged preliminaries were designed to mark the bicentenary of the French Revolution . |
| 2 | Malaysia was the first ASEAN country to open a diplomatic office in the southern city , which was regarded as the country 's commercial capital and where , according to the VNA report , " a number " of Malaysians were " doing business " . |
| 3 | Imprisonment for ordinary civil debt was abolished by statute in 1970 — another hundred years had had to pass since the enactment of the 1869 measure which was seen as the triumph of liberal attitudes over the centuries-long stand of the powerful trader lobby . |
| 4 | Thus the high-modernist building was able simultaneously to enshrine a notion of pure rationality in systems-building , pure formalism in its opposition to ornament , pure functionality which was seen as the basis of its aesthetic value , and pure style . |
| 5 | The club was to nearly kill the magazine as its losses accumulated , but it also provided a link with the United States which was to snap as the magazine moved towards Little Englandism , or Little Londonism . |
| 6 | Jimmy and Gwenda Cornell , the ARC organising team and all those people from Gran Canaria who help the rally each year , boarded the Spanish Navy corvette , Villa de Bilbao , which was to act as the committee boat . |
| 7 | The original epic style was maintained for the description of Fulk V 's Jerusalem journey and his coronation as king of Jerusalem in 1131 , which was portrayed as the fulfilment of the family destiny , the union of its chivalric and pious traditions . |
| 8 | This valley was watered by the river Froom , and produced huge amounts of milk and butter , more even than Tess 's Vale of Blackmoor , which was known as the Vale of Little Dairies . |
| 9 | Among the apple trees , one hot summer in the 1880s , he dug and puddled a large pond with the help of his two sons , which was used as the family swimming pool for years afterwards . |
| 10 | It would be more correct to say that something which was used as the target has changed , for the " target " is a subjective designation and does not change until management decides to change it . |
| 11 | Shipbuilding had always been important to Saltash , which was chosen as the site for a Royal Naval base and dockyard . |
| 12 | Outcomes for the children and young people were analysed according to the legal route which was taken as the basis for the child 's admission into care . |