Example sentences of "were [vb pp] as [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rocks , trees , mountains , wells and springs were recognized as receptacles for spirit , displaying in season their various properties , fertilizing , therapeutic and oracular … |
| 2 | This is partly because fishing rights erm were written in erm to the , to the European Community system erm as part of in a sense the agricultural policy , erm because they were regarded as part of food policy , and it was thought that you must have , if you 're going to have a common agricultural policy , and that was one of the important points erm of the negotiations for setting up the European Community , then a common fisheries policy went alongside with that . |
| 3 | By the early ninth century at the latest , the kings of the first dynasty of Gwynedd were regarded as descendants of Cunedda from Manau Gododdin ( the plain of the Votadini between the Rivers Avon and Carron ) in the territory of the Votadini ( HB ch. 62 ) . |
| 4 | His visits were regarded as occasions for embarrassment rather than pleasure or consolation , and he was left wondering why , when his motives were generous , these people should find it so difficult to respond with a matching warmth . |
| 5 | New words and phrases entered the language of education : open plan buildings no longer had classrooms , they had home bases or teaching areas ; the maths bay became a resource area ; teachers worked in teams ; the timetable was replaced by a continually renegotiable programme ; staff rooms were regarded as places of retreat but parents ' rooms were essential . |
| 6 | In France , but not apparently in Vienna , the latter were regarded as flowers of death . |
| 7 | Both women were treated as infants by Hugh , while Harriet was forced to play stern mother to her husband 's aunt . |
| 8 | Lifetime gifts such as apprentice premiums or partnership capital or lump sums on marriage were treated as advances on inheritance portions . |
| 9 | The genera Ophialcaea and Ophiotreta were treated as subgenera of Ophiacantha by Mortensen ( 1936 ) and Fell ( 1960 ) , but H. L. Clark ( 1915 ) and Koehler ( 1922 , 1931 ) considered them to be of generic rank , a treatment followed here pending future study on the generic boundaries in this subfamily . |
| 10 | REPORTS that the Government plans to save about 13 of the 31 coal mines threatened with closure — but only for about two years — were dismissed as speculation by Downing Street last night . |
| 11 | Sealstones and frescoes often depict cult scenes ; stone vessels were often intended for cult use ; the finest faience figurines were idols ; the metal and clay figurines and miniature double-axes were intended as offerings to deities ; the recurring marine motif on the pottery and in frescoes may have had a cult association with the worship of Poseidon . |
| 12 | On this and the following day , over 300 sorties were flown as part of preparations for the US Marine invasion of Tulagi and two smaller nearby islands . |
| 13 | Beset by relative impotence in the international arena only rarely could abolitionists provide sustenance from ‘ agitation ’ for antislavery diplomacy or politics as when the 1814 petitions were seen as support for Castlereagh 's negotiations on suppressing the transatlantic slave trade at the peace congress . |
| 14 | THE APPROACH of the Eden Park Test initially was viewed with trepidation , and the majority of the five changes to the home team were seen as signs of disarray rather than as providing fresh blood . |
| 15 | Both were seen as sources of disease , bodily or spiritual , moral corruptions which were spreading throughout the land . |
| 16 | Indians were seen as representing the Vietcong , nineteenth-century negro slaves spoke like members of the Black Power movement , and detailed blood-baths were presented as condemnations of violence . |
| 17 | They were named as Romario of Brazil , Stanislav Griga of Czechoslovakia and Gheorghe Hagi of Romania . |
| 18 | They were named as Romario of Brazil , Stanislav Griga of Czechoslovakia and Gheorghe Hagi of Romania . |
| 19 | After an international outcry , the sentences were commuted to life imprisonment , and the couple were adopted as prisoners of conscience by Amnesty International . |
| 20 | Accordingly , particulars were interpreted as complexes of qualities and regarded as being essentially of the same logical type as single qualities ; with the implication that any significant statement about either is necessarily significant , although , it is conceded , " probably not true " , 8 about the other . |
| 21 | In the north , building design had much in common with northern Europe and primarily evolved from Lombard styles ; in central Italy , particularly Tuscany , coloured marbles were used as veneers in decoration both on the outside and inside of the buildings giving a colourful rather than plastic effect to the decoration . |
| 22 | Little was done to halt mass pro-Iraqi demonstrations on the West Bank and Gaza Strip ; instead they were used as evidence of Arafat 's close links with Saddam Hussein 's " terrorist " state . |
| 23 | They were used as infantry at Gallipoli , where they landed at Suvla Bay on 20/21 August 1915 , serving with distinction where they took Chocolate Hill and Scimitar Hill with the bayonet ; by 1 November 1915 , they had been reduced to sixty . |
| 24 | It may give evidence of trade , since coins were used as objects of trade . |
| 25 | A variety of tempers were used as additives to clays ; whether the choice was conscious or not has yet to be studied , although it has already been observed that the same clay was used with different tempers in certain places . |
| 26 | Aliquots of the cDNA reaction were used as templates for PCR with primers OL1918 ( 5' CTCAAGCCACTGCTGGAG 3' ) and Ro ( 5' AAGGATCCGTCGACATC 3' — complementary to T 57 ) . |
| 27 | Sometimes the workmanship in these archaic stone artefacts was very fine , and it is possible that they were used as insignia of rank , in much the same way as stone maces in the Wessex Culture in southern England ; if so , it is curious that the same obsolete tool became associated with rank in two cultures that were geographically so widely separated . |
| 28 | These were used as retreats in times of attack and for clandestine communication between the religious houses . |
| 29 | Fasting volume ( mean of measurements at 15 and 0 minutes before test meal ; V in ml ) and residual postprandial volume were measured as characteristic of gall bladder motility . |
| 30 | They were classified as successes of treatment as subsequent radiological examination had been normal . |