Example sentences of "were [vb pp] as [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | KOMIKs were developed as a result of the work of SIDT 's SEI ! theatre group , which performs theme-based dramatisations of issues being discussed in workshops . |
| 2 | In the west and Wales , large numbers of churches were developed as a result of late/post-Roman Christianity by so-called ‘ Celtic Saints ’ . |
| 3 | The handsome wrought-iron gates of the Palace were erected as a memorial to Edward VII . |
| 4 | Effects of cimetidine and histamine of the cells were calculated as a percentage of the untreated controls . |
| 5 | Methane concentrations were calculated as the difference between breath and a corresponding room air sample . |
| 6 | Incidences were calculated as the number of annual discharges in a population of 100000 in each age and sex groups . |
| 7 | Amplitude and duration of contractions at each recording site were calculated as the average of 10 swallows . |
| 8 | Children were recognized as a cause for long-lasting happiness , so they are included in the vision of the happy family . |
| 9 | All-party talks on the future of Northern Ireland , initiated by Peter Brooke , the UK Northern Ireland Secretary [ see p. 38156 ] , which were due to start on May 7 , were delayed as a result of procedural disputes mainly concerning the venue and chairing of the second strand of discussions . |
| 10 | A further twenty-four lots were withdrawn as a result of uncertainty over ownership . |
| 11 | But their other eight awards were squandered as a result of a badly worked routine . |
| 12 | The treasury officials numbered the royal possessions every two years , so that the years of a given reign were designated as the Year of , say , the Third Numbering , or the Year after the Third Numbering , and so on . |
| 13 | Since offices were regarded as a form of property , reform could be stigmatized as an encroachment upon freehold . |
| 14 | For them , nuclear weapons were regarded as an extension of artillery , which had been so crucial in the second world war . |
| 15 | In the first place , diplomatic and political history were regarded as the centre of the discipline — the transaction of government business from month to month and year to year so that , according to the progenitors of the new approach , one could be forgiven for thinking that the only Frenchmen who had lived were cabinet ministers . |
| 16 | The zaibatsu — the powerful financial combines headed by Mitsui , Mitsubishi , Yasuda , Sumitomo and Okura — were regarded as the cornerstone of Japanese activities and it was accordingly a priority to break down their authority . |
| 17 | Sometimes these were regarded as the product of individuals , sometimes of institutions . |
| 18 | One of my hands and ribs were broken as a result of torture ’ . |
| 19 | Morley denied that they were intended as a prelude to parliamentary government . |
| 20 | The painted texts , which emphasized the importance of the Word , were intended as an aid to devotion , and were more readily seen than the Bibles , which were also on display in every church . |
| 21 | These were intended as an aid to discussion , a means of stimulating debate . |
| 22 | The problematic four Duetti ( two prelude and fugue pairs ) were added as an afterthought at the last moment . |
| 23 | Unofficial strike action followed and the union 's own bankers were granted an injunction prohibiting the NUS from transferring any of their property abroad , on the principle that third parties must ensure that they gave no aid to any action which might occur if the union 's property were sequestrated as a result of some future contempt of court . |
| 24 | More generally , a Japanese businessman would probably find them more intelligible and appealing than the liberal individualist doctrines which outwardly were claimed as the cornerstone of British management ideology . |
| 25 | ( 8 ) In proceedings to enforce a liability arising by virtue of subsection ( 3 ) above , it shall be a defence for the defendant to prove that he believed , and had reasonable cause to believe — ( a ) that the residential occupier had ceased to reside in the premises in question at the time when he was deprived of occupation as mentioned in subsection ( 1 ) above or , as the case may be , when the attempt was made or the acts were done as a result of which he gave up his occupation of those premises ; or ( b ) that , where the liability would otherwise arise by virtue only of the doing of acts or the withdrawal or withholding of services , he had reasonable grounds for doing the acts or withdrawing or withholding the services in question . |
| 26 | Later , and also accidentally , they were found to damage and destroy living tissues , so they were applied as a kind of cautery to ulcerating cancerous growths as well as to other conditions such as inflammations and tuberculosis . |
| 27 | Held : A person who negligently starts a fire is liable for injuries suffered by a fireman while attempting to put out the fire , regardless of whether the particular injuries suffered by the fireman were reasonably foreseeable or whether the injuries were suffered as the result of exceptional or merely ordinary risks undertaken by the fireman . |
| 28 | Mosley 's turn to political anti-semitism was signalled by his Albert Hall meeting in October 1934 when he attacked both the ‘ big ’ Jews who were seen as a threat to the nation 's economy and the ‘ little ’ Jews who allegedly swamped the cultural identity of localities where they settled . |
| 29 | And so therefore the local elections were seen as a pointer to the general elections . |
| 30 | In the new political climate of the Donoughmore Constitution these restrictions were seen as a restraint on the economic freedom of the peasantry . |