Example sentences of "were [vb pp] as the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Death rates were calculated as the annual number of deaths in a population of 100000 in each age and sex groups . |
| 2 | Graphs showing the relative enhancement of P ( b ) and v 1 ( c ) following the tetanus as a function of the initial P. The P and v 1 ratios were calculated as the mean value for the 500 trials immediately after the tetanus divided by the mean for the 500 trials before the tetanus . |
| 3 | Although more than half earned up to £24,000 , with a further 17 per cent getting more , low running costs were given as the main reason for their choice . |
| 4 | The claimant could not be described as the lawful holder of the bill of lading unless a given copy or all the copies issued by the carrier were designated as the original bill or set of bills . |
| 5 | At this central sanctuary there was no place for female officiants as the Temple 's affairs were regarded as the sole responsibility of an organized , hereditary male priesthood dedicated to the service of Yahweh . |
| 6 | Previous studies have tended to concentrate almost exclusively on scientists ' choices between different theories or explanations since such choices were regarded as the characteristic feature of science . |
| 7 | Suppose a Royal Society of Building were formed as the professional home for all the professionals involved in building . |
| 8 | Green activists have claimed that the Commission 's definition of development retains the mindset of the 1960s , when vast infrastructural improvement schemes were seen as the only way to improve depressed local economies . |
| 9 | In general , roses have played a part in everyday life from the time of the ancient Egyptians and Chinese , and have always been loved and treated with veneration , and repeatedly illustrated in herbals and paintings , they were adopted as the national flower in Britain from the Middle Ages . |
| 10 | In this view the accordant summits in areas like the ridge and valley province of the USA were interpreted as the inevitable result of dynamic equilibrium rather than as remnants of earlier erosion cycles , and this followed from the assumption ( Hack , 1960 , p. 81 ) that : |
| 11 | Phosphatidyl choline species composed of various acyl fatty acids in the sn-1 and sn-2 positions were used as the sole phosphlipid in otherwise identical model bile solutions . |
| 12 | Beautifully designed and minted , the silver pieces were used as the preferred exchange in southern Arabia and down the East African coast until as recently as the 1970s . |
| 13 | Male Wistar rats ( 250 g ) were used as the experimental animal . |
| 14 | These restrictive measures , sponsored by Ramsay MacDonald , which are never to be forgotten or forgiven by the Labour party , were defended as the inevitable product of the continuing economic crises of the 1930s . |
| 15 | This is logical also on the grounds that the remedies were proved as the single remedy and not as mixtures , and mixtures of remedies may have effects which are different from those of their component parts . |
| 16 | these were known as the local limit . |
| 17 | Not surprisingly , customer demands for lower charges and improved service were cited as the major source of competitive pressure in the industry ( reported by over 55 per cent of all operators ) . |
| 18 | Spot and futures returns were computed as the natural logarithm of the daily price relatives . |
| 19 | From this base , a set of performance indicators were generated as the top level of the information set . |
| 20 | The first permanent companies of artillery , to replace the basically civilian gunners hired ad hoc when required , had been formed , on Marlborough 's advice , in 1716 , and in 1727 their number was increased to four and they were united as the Royal Regiment of Artillery . |
| 21 | Mispricings were defined as the natural logarithm of the actual futures price minus the natural logarithm of the no-arbitrage futures price . |
| 22 | This lies in the consideration that , in the beginning , they were externalized as the social conflict between the sons and the primal father . |
| 23 | The focus of the inter-war depression in Scotland , the Northern Region and Wales is universally attributed to specialization in a narrow band of declining industries , and these areas were identified as the principal target of regional policy for the subsequent decades . |
| 24 | However , for many years North Shields and Tyne mouth were combined as the small County Borough of Tyne mouth ( 70% of which was made up of North Shields ) . |
| 25 | The results were expressed as the mean percentage of Sirius red stained area of the section . |
| 26 | Here Acton followed the general materialist principles of contemporary physiology , in which ideas and sensations were conceived as the direct product of physical processes or environmental influences . |
| 27 | Loans were handled as the National Debt rather than the royal debt and it became possible to raise long-term loans with the authority of Parliament behind them , and even to float loans on terms which meant that the principal would never be repaid but that , because the interest would be paid regularly forever , it would be possible to treat the bond for the debt as an asset which could be bought and sold . |
| 28 | Social , environmental and daily living activities were suggested as the appropriate basis for assessment rather than clinically based assessments and tests . |