Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [adv] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One such area has been its library services which until now , maintains Mathews , were regarded simply as a programming resource . |
| 2 | Jobless er tory jobless figures were exposed yesterday as a fraud . |
| 3 | Well there were two that were bandied about as a cost of national Of social chapter in this department . |
| 4 | The Labour MP for Jarrow said investigations into alleged abuse of the postal system were carried out as a matter of routine . |
| 5 | The elections , which involved well over a quarter of the electorate , were seen both as a dress rehearsal for the North-Rhine Westphalian Land elections in May next year and as a test of the political mood in the country . |
| 6 | These elections were presented almost as a referendum on the performance of the government , and in such an atmosphere most councils must have felt confident that , for this year at least , they would avoid any adverse local electoral reaction to their fiscal policies . |
| 7 | The economic and political consequences of the Chilean inflation were made worse as a result of the widespread use of controls . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , Ellie , you do know , ’ he said quietly , in direct contrast to her stormy denial , ‘ and I can either believe that the letters were used merely as a passport for something else , or you are indeed a calculating little bitch intent only on causing pain . ’ |
| 9 | The bricks were laid in alternate courses with stone or concrete , or were used only as a facing on a concrete core . |
| 10 | As my father would try in vain to overtake ‘ a bloody idiot ’ on the A82 between Tyndrum and Bridge of Orchy , there were two spectacular things to look at before we were wiped out as a family . |
| 11 | A report in the Sunday Times last week , confirming the Sunday Life story of July 11 , revealed the plans were drawn up as a result of an intelligence source in the IRA who said the organisation had developed a ‘ peace party ’ led by Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness . |
| 12 | There were other ways of arriving at much the same conclusion but one logical consequence was that the non-biblical " gentiles " and the " savages " were lumped together as a kind of historical residue of " first men " . |
| 13 | Whether a compiler is a quality product soon becomes evident , and with some there is the suspicion that they were cobbled together as a response to opposition product innovations . |
| 14 | These results were confirmed when patients with Barrett 's oesophagus were compared separately as a group with patients without Barrett 's oesophagus using the Mann-Whitney U test . |
| 15 | In Sweden employers ' associations were set up as a counter-mobilisation to the growing organisational strength and apparent centralisation of the trade union movement . |
| 16 | Health problems were ruled out as a reason for possibly avoiding the trip . |
| 17 | Between 1985 and 1990 , some 25,000 trainees were trained here as a result of agreements with other governments . |
| 18 | You were taken on as a boy and er you got a boy 's wages but you were expected to do as much work as a man . |
| 19 | Administrative blunders and a four-year delay in settling the dispute were described yesterday as a scandal by union leaders involved in the battle . |