Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , due to the short notice , Randalstown would have been without four key players on May 15 which was pencilled in as the reserve date . |
| 2 | There was a uniformed constable by the bed all the time , but David Evans was hanging about as an unofficial extra . |
| 3 | For about the first 12 years of its existence the centre was carried on as an unincorporated organisation . |
| 4 | The PKK had denied responsibility for a bomb which caused one death in Istanbul on Jan. 25 , claiming that it was carried out as a provocative act by a " counter-guerrilla " force . |
| 5 | The initial study was carried out as the practical project for my MSc course in 1987 . |
| 6 | This operation was carried out as the only possible way of dealing with the menace of the drug dealers . |
| 7 | You 've got to remember that at the time , deregulation was looked on as an open cash-register . |
| 8 | The ‘ victory ’ rally in Sheffield was picked out as a turning point in the party 's fortunes . |
| 9 | In the 1980s Britain was coasting along as the fourth-largest west European R&D spender on space — behind France , Germany and Italy . |
| 10 | Derek Douane was got up as a Dickensian urchin , with a broken neck and a dirty face . |
| 11 | Labour was moving on as a renewed party — ‘ a party that cares as much about consumers as it cares about producers ; a party that wants to make the economy work as much as it wants to change the economy ; a party that embraces as much of the green as it does of the red ’ . |
| 12 | Tentatively , 23 August 1990 was marked down as the official day of opening , when Ceauşescu would address a quarter of a million loyal subjects from the balcony on the second floor . |
| 13 | The scheme certainly helped me right at the beginning when I was starting up as a criminal lawyer . |
| 14 | Greenwich was set up as a new meridian which would suit the astronomers ' convenience , and the government relied on them to make the new meridian into a suitable base-line for calculating the longitude . |
| 15 | AA was set up as a monthly hardcopy abstracts journal in 1954 and an online database was introduced in 1986 containing material from 1980 to date , giving easy access to abstracts spanning the discipline of analytical chemistry . |
| 16 | Operation Gemini was set up as a high profile battle against criminals . |
| 17 | The departure of occupying forces was recommended and a new commission , the UN Commission on Korea ( UNCOK ) , was set up as a permanent body charged with helping to attain unification . |
| 18 | Yet it was accordingly — to quote Cole again — that the producers ' co-operative was set up as an industrial , or perhaps more exactly , as a proto-industrial co-operative . |
| 19 | On Dec. 1 President Ramaswamy Venkataraman received assurances of " outside " support for a minority National Front government from the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Left Front parties ; the next day V. P. Singh was sworn in as the Prime Minister , in place of Rajiv Gandhi . |
| 20 | Bhairon Singh Shekhawat of the BJP was sworn in as the new Chief Minister on March 3 , replacing Harideo Joshi , Congress ( I ) Chief Minister since early December . |
| 21 | Virendra Verma , a Janata Dal member of the Rajya Sabha , was sworn in as the new Governor on June 14 . |
| 22 | The central government finally relinquished President 's rule on Oct. 17 and Bangarappa was sworn in as the new Chief Minister . |
| 23 | Hiteshwar Saikia was sworn in as the new Congress ( I ) Chief Minister on June 30 . |
| 24 | Bhajan Lal was sworn in as the new Congress ( I ) Chief Minister on June 23 . |
| 25 | Surendra Nath was sworn in as the new governor on Aug. 7 . |
| 26 | Oswaldo Fernandez , was sworn in as the new Director of the National Police Force on Oct. 30 , replacing Gonzalo Menendez Franco who had resigned on Oct. 25 following accusations that he had meddled in politics . |
| 27 | Congress ( I ) won a majority of seats in state assembly elections held in Haryana in May , and in June Bhajan Lal was sworn in as the new Congress ( I ) Chief Minister [ see p. 38287 ] . |
| 28 | Kalyan Singh was sworn in as the new Chief Minister [ see p. 38287 ] . |
| 29 | Congress ( I ) won the State Assembly elections held in early June and Hitashwar Saikia was sworn in as the new Chief Minister [ see p. 38287 ] . |
| 30 | Lallu Prasad Yadav was sworn in as the new Chief Minister in early March [ see pp. 37245 ; 37315 ] . |