Example sentences of "was [verb] as an [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was intended as an extension to the debiasing work reported in Groeger and Chapman ( 1990 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 10 years ago , announcing an allegiance to Leeds United was regarded as an admission to being demented , a psychopath , or both . |
| 5 | Diem , once the main hope , was regarded as an obstacle to improvement . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The traditional tenancy , because of its informal character , was seen as an obstacle to improvement in these respects … what incentive was there for the tenant farmer to engage in agricultural improvement ? |
| 9 | Darlington MP Michael Fallon believed the clawback clause would be changed if it was seen as an obstacle to striking a deal . |
| 10 | Darlington MP Michael Fallon said he believed the clawback clause would be changed if it was seen as an obstacle to a deal . |
| 11 | Saved by the financial straits of the crown from effective attack by the reforming bureaucrats of the later eighteenth century , the sheep-owners could not hope to defeat the pressure of the municipalities and local courts , when supported by opinion increasingly hostile to corporate privilege , which was seen as an impediment to economic development . |
| 12 | While this perspective was offered as an alternative to the moral and disease models of child abuse , which tend to dominate ‘ lay ’ and ‘ expert ’ thinking on the subject , it is only one of a number of possible sociological approaches . |
| 13 | Is there any difference between this kind of stability , and the stability of a vortex , which was used as an analogy to a living system in the first chapter ? |
| 14 | There is one tablet from Knossos which lists several deities including Potnia and Enualios , a name which later was used as an alternative to Ares , the Greek war-god ; it also has the first part of Poseidon 's name , ‘ po-se-da- ’ , but the end is broken off . |
| 15 | £33 million of the output of the energy sector was used as an input to Scotch Whisky companies ( see Table 3.2 ) . |
| 16 | Ironic as it may seem today , modern redundancy law developed from the belief in the 1960s that a state scheme was needed as an incentive to job mobility at a time of chronic labour shortage . |
| 17 | Dene was employed as an envoy to the papal court in June 1294 , charged with certain weighty matters , and was one of eleven masters ordered by Edward II to assist his envoys to Avignon in 1316 . |
| 18 | And the John Lennon hit single ‘ Imagine ’ has been played simultaneously on more than a thousand radio stations worldwide ; it was one of the tributes on what would have been the ex-Beatle 's fiftieth birthday , and was played as an anthem to world peace . |
| 19 | Not surprisingly , when the Sinn Fein insurrection began , he was marked as an enemy to the patriotic struggle and his premises were treated accordingly . |
| 20 | When falsificationism was introduced as an alternative to inductivism in the previous chapter , falsifications , that is , the failures of theories to stand up to observational and experimental tests , were portrayed as being of key importance . |
| 21 | The opinion was provided as an appendix to the Accounting Standards Board 's ‘ Foreword to Accounting Standards ’ . |
| 22 | She stood for Parliament , unsuccessfully , as a pacifist Labour candidate in the general election of 1918 , and was appointed as an alderman to Battersea borough council in 1920 . |
| 23 | Robert was sent as an apprentice to an upholsterer in Covent Garden at the age of fourteen , progressed up the ladder , bought the business , and became a big wheel in the East India Company , a founder of Williams & Glyn Bank and the local MP . |
| 24 | It was published as an Appendix to Hardy , which was itself the result of an inquiry by the Greater London Enterprise Board ( GLEB ) into the music industry . |
| 25 | If you look at the News item regarding Hoof Branding in the September issue you will see that I recommended any form of security marking and that hoof branding was suggested as an alternative to freezebranding for those who choose not to freezebrand their horses . |