Example sentences of "was [verb] as a [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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The extra tax was treated as a credit to be repaid after the war . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Arts and Crafts in style and equally suited to today 's modern interiors , this rug was designed as a tribute to Charles Rennie Mackintosh . |
| 14 | The hole was designed as a dogleg to the left , and in the trees ahead of Harley was a television camera tower . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Any threat to the Sabbath day was seen as a threat to the Jewish faith as a whole . |
| 19 | Foreign contact was seen as a threat to political stability . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Any form of ‘ ecclesiastical ’ architecture was seen as a hindrance to the ‘ unchurched millions ’ . |
| 24 | This was seen as a reference to the attitude of China which indicated it might withdraw if Taiwan were admitted into the group . |
| 25 | According to the Far Eastern Economic Review Falin 's visit was seen as a response to a visit to China earlier in the month by the US National Security Adviser Gen. Brent Scowcroft [ see p. 37122 ] . |
| 26 | Haughey 's espousal of liberal reforms was seen as a response to the shock result of the November 1990 presidential election [ see p. 37868 ] , in which the victory of Mary Robinson , a woman supported by the Labour Party and the Workers ' Party , was seen as reflecting a major shift in voters ' attitudes and a challenge to the traditional political dominance of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael . |
| 27 | The policy of " resource security of major new industrial wood processing projects " was introduced under Prime Minister Bob Hawke in 1991 , in what was seen as a response to pressure from the timber industry and an impending general election . |
| 28 | Pérez on June 13 appointed a military figure as Foreign Minister , for the first time in 34 years of democratic rule , in what was seen as a gesture to the armed forces , where discontent was still high in the aftermath of the abortive military coup of Feb. 4 [ see pp. 38759-60 ] . |
| 29 | British Aerospace 's £150m buyout of Rover was seen as a lifeline to the ailing car industry . |
| 30 | The admission of the FLNKS , which had been resisted by the SPG in the past , was seen as a signal to the French government that the region was still actively committed to a fully independent , Melanesian-controlled New Caledonia . |