Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | VisionWare , based in Leeds , was formed recently as a management buy-out from Systime ( tel. : 0532 529292 ) . |
| 2 | Their park was given over as a whole for building development , and laid out on the gridiron pattern in the middle decades of the eighteenth century . |
| 3 | Equally it is inadequate to say the promise was given solely as a response to the political pressure of wartime radicalism . |
| 4 | ‘ I think the cairn was placed there as a landmark to guide Bronze Age pilgrims to the rings of stone , ’ he said . |
| 5 | ‘ When Euston was first built ’ , reported a Victorian commentator in 1896 , ‘ it was regarded not as a railway station but as a spectacle . |
| 6 | While it was generally recognized that the new novelists drew a great deal on their eighteenth and nineteenth century predecessors , this was regarded not as a fault but , on the contrary , all the more reason for admitting them as new bearers of the old standard ( Hansford Johnson 1949:235–3 , Wilson 1958:viii ) . |
| 7 | Personal misfortune was regarded either as a test of faith which had to be patiently endured , or as a punishment for past transgressions requiring deep repentance . |
| 8 | Death was treated with a certain deference , although the passing of a sitting MP was regarded either as a blessing in disguise ( ‘ never liked him ’ ) or , if the Party was unpopular , as a confounded nuisance , a by-election inevitably leading to exposure , expense and humiliating defeat . |
| 9 | This might suggest that France won the War of the Spanish Succession but nobody in Britain and not many people in France saw the result this way ; it was regarded more as a struggle in which the British asserted themselves militarily on the continent of Europe and began to show signs of a policy of taking over the smaller colonies of other European powers by conquest . |
| 10 | In 1984 and 1985 , the Rokkaku challenge , as it was to become known , was a feature of the AKA conventions ; though it was regarded more as a participant than a spectator event . |
| 11 | This house , full of perspectives and privacy , was shaping up as a mother , as well as a mistress and a wife . |
| 12 | The solution was to add a form of the hormone progesterone so that the lining was shed not as a period but as an artificial withdrawal bleed . |
| 13 | ODT was designed originally as a desktop product , but the addition of MPX multi-processing extensions has made it more popular in multi-user environments : it requires an 80386 personal computer with 8Mb RAM , 100Mb disk and VGA graphics as minimum to run . |
| 14 | It was proposed that the students of Torcy 's academy should be employed in making " a more complete and exact collection of peace-treaties " , with an accompanying commentary ; while the largest such enterprise hitherto , the Corps universel diplomatique du droit des gens of J. Dumont de Carlscroon ( twelve volumes : Amsterdam — The Hague , 1726 ) , an assembly of documents reaching back to the age of Charlemagne and drawn from sources all over Europe , was designed mainly as a help in policy-making and a kind of portable archive for the use of diplomats . |
| 15 | However , Bukharin 's ideas were not formed solely by what was currently happening in Soviet Russia ; rather he viewed what was happening there as a part of a much larger upheaval on a world scale . |
| 16 | ( Though in fact by this time , " tramping " was dying out as a practice and craft mobility with it . ) |
| 17 | He explained that a couple of centuries ago the course was leased out as a rabbit farm and , well , ever since , the creatures have been hopping wild across the four courses . |
| 18 | The penalty was imposed primarily as a result of evidence provided by the victim and in spite of the tenor of the earlier summing-up by the judge who had told the jury that it was dangerous to convict on the evidence of an alleged victim alone . |
| 19 | The industrial action must also have had an effect , although senior staff suggested that union activity was not particularly strong , and was felt mainly as a restriction on communication . |
| 20 | The report was seen partly as a response to a document published by the UN Economic Commission for Africa ( ECA ) which had criticized the socially destructive effects of World Bank-supported SAPs [ see pp. 36991-92 ] . |
| 21 | The martyr 's conflict was seen not as a fight against duly constituted authority in government , but against Satan . |
| 22 | But in all social discourse a stable home was seen both as a microcosm of stable society and a sanctuary from an unstable and rapidly changing one . |
| 23 | Once , stringing PCs together was seen primarily as a way of sharing equipment like printers . |
| 24 | And if the ‘ mixed economy ’ was seen only as a framework , then like the scaffolding surrounding a building , it would be dismantled when the task in hand had been completed . |
| 25 | Moreover , it is not true that prior to the nineteenth century ( or eighteenth , depending on when the change was said to occur ) sexual deviance was conceptualized only as a form of behaviour . |
| 26 | The remarkable Ceylonese railway network was built largely as a response to the insatiable demands of tea-planting from the 1880s . |
| 27 | Although in earlier days Oakridge had its cottage weavers , the mill was built specifically as a silk mill , the business run by a number of different concerns . |
| 28 | was built afterwards as a servant 's house . |
| 29 | Erm and it was organized then as a tourist thing . |
| 30 | But it was the former which , as a member of the Government , he was really concerned to promote : Labour 's War Aims Memorandum was to serve primarily as a reason to continue fighting the war . |