Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] as [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Labour demanded his resignation after the LAS Board chairman , Jim Harris , announced he was stepping down as an inquiry blamed management failures over the £1.5 million computer-aided despatch system ( CAD ) . |
| 3 | This house , full of perspectives and privacy , was shaping up as a mother , as well as a mistress and a wife . |
| 4 | ( Though in fact by this time , " tramping " was dying out as a practice and craft mobility with it . ) |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Fred Dunston ( Fritz Deutsch ) , a Youth Allyah worker and former Scout leader from Vienna , was drafted in as an organiser of the transit camp , which was to be built on a large meadow across the road from the training centre at Great Engeham Farm : |
| 7 | The back flap of his breacan-feile was drawn up as a hood over his head against the weather . |
| 8 | Florida was opened up as a winter resort in the 1890s by Henrys Flagler and Plant , both millionaires and railroad company owners . |
| 9 | He was bought up as a Catholic and a socialist and was educated at Harrow County School for Boys and Peterhouse , Cambridge , where he gained a first class degree in history . |
| 10 | How would you feel if your anticipated profit-sharing bonus was wiped out as a result of some crazy investment decision made by those idiots on the board ? |
| 11 | I sang in the choir at chapel and was called on as a boy soprano for various local concerts or for a solo or two at Bude parish church . |
| 12 | Somerset seamer Neil Mallender was called up as a standby for England in New Zealand . |
| 13 | The Hibernian forward Bobby Johnstone was injured and the skilful Aberdeen player ‘ Gentleman ’ George Hamilton was called in as a replacement . |
| 14 | The rugby world stood up and took notice and Best was marked out as a man destined for greater things . |
| 15 | I recall listening to him tell it to visitors when I was a child , and then later , when I was starting out as a footman under his supervision . |
| 16 | Tim and Julie met 11 years ago in Bath where she was training to be a teacher and he was starting out as a trainee accountant . |
| 17 | The working party was set up as a result of the HCIMA Quality Forum held at the Institute of Directors in April last year . |
| 18 | The price review board was set up as a result of the new patent legislation . |
| 19 | There was a long series of public meetings in 1980 and one of these was set up as a sort of week-end rally to which the anti-nuclear people were invited from all over Ireland , and at a big indoor public meeting during that weekend where you would normally have expected about 400 people to turn up , only about two locals turned up and the rest were all outsiders . |
| 20 | In 1873 a new lime works was established at Halling followed in 1878 by a cement works known as Halling Manor Lime and Cement Works which was set up as an addition to those already operated by Hilton , Anderson and Company at Upnor and Faversham . |
| 21 | His host of many a good evening , Mr. Harden , at Brathay Hall , was set up as an example of one who did not plant enough trees . |
| 22 | In 1990 a central government agency was set up as an instrument of denationalization of state enterprises , and a statute was passed regulating the issue of securities to the public and setting up a new stock exchange . |
| 23 | Connaught was set up as an investment vehicle after the 1987 crash . |
| 24 | This media course was set up as the school 's response to being chosen , like school A to participate in the Gulbenkian Research Project . |
| 25 | Accordingly , " with the praiseworthy assistance of Miss Irwin , Secretary of the Women 's Federal Council " , and with financial help both from the ETS and the STA , a " Female Compositors Society " was set up as the STC reported in July and August 1898 . |
| 26 | He was set up as the triggerman for the massacre by those forces inside President F.W. de Klerk 's administration determined to hang on to white power at all costs . |
| 27 | After three years as a cadet carrying out basic police tasks around the station , I was sworn in as a constable . |
| 28 | Farm secretary Anne Rose , of Ellerton-on-Swale , near Richmond , was sworn in as a magistrate at Richmond court yesterday . |
| 29 | On June 22 Tokonye Kotelo , hitherto high commissioner in Kenya , was named as Minister of Foreign Affairs following the resignation of Capt. Pius Molapo ; on June 23 Chief Mohlalefi Bereng was sworn in as the Minister of Interior , Chieftaincy Affairs and Rural Development , replacing Kgotsi Matete ; three other Cabinet changes were made on June 29 . |
| 30 | In March Begum Zia was sworn in as the country 's first woman Prime Minister [ see p. 38102 ] . |