Example sentences of "were [vb pp] as the [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blood transfusion donors , serologically negative for Helicobacter pylori , ( 87 men , 40 women , mean ( SD ) age : 35 ( 10 ) years ) were used as the reference population . |
| 2 | I trained under Nurse Gatenby and at the time we were known as the Gatenby girls . |
| 3 | They were known as the Cedar Boys and it became clear that nearly all of them had been orphaned as the Third Reich took its terrible toll on European Jewry . |
| 4 | " Sustainable economic growth and the reduction in poverty " were defined as the World Bank 's main priorities in 1993 , according to its annual report released on Sept. 16 . |
| 5 | This culture , and all subsequent isolates that were identified as the epidemic strain , belonged to bacteriocin type S3/P0:ribotype A , and shared the same CHEF profile . |
| 6 | The ‘ cities of inner despair ’ were conceived as the breeding ground for disorderly protest , and however hard the Government tried to break the causal link between the two , it was forced to take on board the need to restore order not only through the police but through promises of help for the inner cities . |