Example sentences of "was [verb] as [art] [noun] to " in BNC.
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1 | The Attorney-General was joined as a respondent to the application because he had declined to grant his fiat under section 13 of the Coroners Act 1988 , but at the hearing he was released from the proceedings with the consent of all parties . |
2 | Scientists today believe this strange sequence of structures was intended as a temple to the river god . |
3 | The name was intended as a tribute to Lord Beaverbrook , the politician and newspaper magnate , whose name was synonymous with trust , a quality Beaverbrooks still maintain as one of their principal values , together with their ever present high quality and good service . |
4 | Traders said yesterday 's drop was intended as a correction to over-reaction by the market . |
5 | The grammar did not offer total coverage of the language ( it successfully parsed 65% of the corpus it was tested on ) but was intended as a supplement to the results from the Markov analysis of the stenotography . |
6 | This was intended as an extension to the debiasing work reported in Groeger and Chapman ( 1990 ) . |
7 | This benefit is also derived from the plaintiff at the uncle 's request , if the promise of the annuity was intended as an inducement to the marriage ; and the averment that the plaintiff , relying on the promise , married , is an averment that the promise was one inducement to the marriage . |
8 | In the 1920 's a new high altar and reredos was erected as a memorial to those parishioners who had died in the First World War . |
9 | His funeral took place during the First Test at Trent Bridge , with South Africa the tourists : play was halted as a tribute to the man whose valet helped him to contrive county cricket 's most amazing victory . |
10 | The extra tax was treated as a credit to be repaid after the war . |
11 | Heresy becomes a social solecism , a self-declared exile , as the personal history of Protestant converts amply proves : George Borrow 's Bible peddling was regarded as a threat to society itself or an incomprehensible eccentricity . |
12 | Matthew Arnold , as we shall see in Chapter 3 , regarded English as a vehicle for overcoming class divisions ; in the late Victorian era , it was regarded as a sop to women demanding higher education ( see Baldick 1984 ) . |
13 | From time to time however there were vivid flashes of US policy-making which suggested that Indo-China was regarded as a means to an end , rather than an end in itself ; and those of a philosophical disposition may see this as the flaw which turned idealism into tragedy . |
14 | Neither an acute complication of gall stone disease nor a non-functioning gall bladder , if caused by a stone impacted in Hartmann 's pouch , was regarded as a contraindication to treatment . |
15 | Some of this money was pocketed by the English captain there , Thomas Catterton , who was regarded as an accomplice to the deal and was subsequently accused of treason . |
16 | 10 years ago , announcing an allegiance to Leeds United was regarded as an admission to being demented , a psychopath , or both . |
17 | Diem , once the main hope , was regarded as an obstacle to improvement . |
18 | There is a good deal of evidence elsewhere in the Digest to show that in civil-law dispositions too intention was regarded as the key to application of a condition or a term ; and this goes back as early as Pegasus . |
19 | The machine was developed as an alternative to the many CP/M based machines that dominated the computer industry at the time , and was , unusually for IBM , designed around ‘ off the shelf ’ building blocks . |
20 | Arts and Crafts in style and equally suited to today 's modern interiors , this rug was designed as a tribute to Charles Rennie Mackintosh . |
21 | The hole was designed as a dogleg to the left , and in the trees ahead of Harley was a television camera tower . |
22 | The hilt of a hiranu , the short sword of Manchu manufacture which was carried as an alternative to the jusei , peeped from his waist sash . |
23 | The exceptions were for the square where performance in the two tasks was about the same and for the rhombus where " diamond " was accepted as a response to the naming task . |
24 | Though CSE grade 1 had been deemed to be the equivalent of a good O level pass , this had not really brought the two into line : the equivalence was granted as a concession to the increasingly academic ambitions of the secondary modern schools , and , later , as a consolation to those pupils in comprehensive schools who thought they had been wrongly ‘ deselected ’ away from O levels . |
25 | The impetus behind the NBA was the problem in Victorian times of widespread and severe price cutting in the retail book trade , which was seen as a threat to the viability of booksellers and publishers . |
26 | Any threat to the Sabbath day was seen as a threat to the Jewish faith as a whole . |
27 | Foreign contact was seen as a threat to political stability . |
28 | The Tokyo gubernatorial contest was seen as a threat to the position of Ichiro Ozawa , the LDP 's general secretary who was frequently tipped as a future Prime Minister . |
29 | Hobsbawm emphasised an important distinction between machine breaking where the machine itself was seen as a threat to employment , and those cases where machinery was destroyed simply as a means of putting pressure on employers in disputes unconnected with its use . |
30 | In what was seen as a setback to an eventual peace settlement , the ANC on March 29 cancelled a peace rally due to have been held with Inkatha on April 2 . |