Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was regarded as a pleasant , generous , kind child . |
| 2 | She left no personal papers , and little is known about her private life , but she was regarded as a formidable person by Beatrice and Sidney Webb ( later Baron Passfield ) , George Gissing , and George Bernard Shaw [ qq.v . ] . |
| 3 | She was seen as a light relief from the boredom or demands of the shift , and , as a female , she was treated as a pretty face in a working environment which is heavily masculine . |
| 4 | Danielle Salamon was also four when she was feted as a musical genius in 1953 . |
| 5 | She taught much of the practical work in the natural sciences for the women students of Newnham and Girton Colleges for more than twenty years , and she was recognized as a stimulating teacher who demanded high-quality work . |
| 6 | In 1936 she was adopted as the prospective parliamentary candidate for the Exchange division of Liverpool . |
| 7 | The fact is she ran away from her home in late 1962 and her mother heard a few months later that she was living as a common street girl near King 's Cross Station . |
| 8 | Although she was cited as an experienced tropical fishkeeper she apparently lacked the knowledge that an experienced hobbyist would have had — that 4mm glass is always too thin for this type of tank . |
| 9 | She was seen as a light relief from the boredom or demands of the shift , and , as a female , she was treated as a pretty face in a working environment which is heavily masculine . |
| 10 | In 1912 she was elected as a Labour councillor in the London borough of Kensington , where she pressed for public provision of baby clinics , school meals , improved council housing , employment schemes , and prohibition of sweated labour . |
| 11 | She was cast as the selfish villainess of the drama , her husband the innocent injured party . |
| 12 | She was represented as a nice girl temporarily turned into a witch by strange creatures ( including , in Tanning 's designs , men described as Owl Heads and Bald Heads ) who interrupt a rendezvous with her lover in a mysterious castle . |
| 13 | On going down from Newnham , she was appointed as the first principal of Cambridge Training College , formed with the purpose of training university women to teach in girls ' secondary schools . |
| 14 | Because of these interests she was designated as a dangerous subversive under the terms of the 1927 Public Safety Act . |
| 15 | ‘ When Florence Nightingale said bluntly that if you overcrowded your soldiers in dirty quarters there would be an outbreak of smallpox , she was snubbed as an ignorant female who did not know that smallpox can be produced only by the importation of its specific microbe , ’ Shaw remarks . |
| 16 | For the most part she was portrayed as a frivolous ingenue whose emotional and intellectual development was gently guided by her serious-minded husband . |
| 17 | They both liked it , and began going out together for about a month until he left to do summer stock in Fishkill , NY , and she went to Philadelphia where she was chosen as a principal dancer with the Pennsylvania Ballet . |
| 18 | When she took over as First Lady four years ago , she was hailed as the freshest breath of air to hit Washington in years . |
| 19 | It was during the regional link-ups with Nationwide in London that she was spotted as a young broadcaster with great potential . |
| 20 | It took a fall at thirty-five miles an hour , a night in Addenbrooke 's Hospital in Cambridge , and a broken collarbone to remind Kelly of the life she was missing as a professional jockey . |
| 21 | His attention was also caught by a woman dressed in midnight-blue satin and diamonds ; the sister of a Middle-Eastern ruler , she was known as an audacious gambler . |
| 22 | She was known as an excellent microscopist . |