Example sentences of "[adv] was [verb] as " in BNC.

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1 There was also then great concern that the appointment of erm er of independent members apparently was seen as a way of my Right Honourable Friend or anyone who then er held the office of er Ho Home Secretary would actually put in his own .
2 The fact that he chose not to do so was seen as a tacit admission of the widely held view that the foreign policy successes of President George Bush had made his re-election an inevitability .
3 SKNSH RNA was included as the positive control for the human NF-L protected fragment of 154 nucleotides ( nt ) , while RNA from HeLa cells transfected with the β-globin gene alone was used as the positive control for the β-globin 212 nt signal , both indicated by arrows .
4 One o'clock was agreed as the deadline when Mrs Wijsmüller and another refugee worker , Gertrud van Tijn , were to meet at the American Hotel to decide on their next move .
5 We may eventually come to think in terms of a Minoan Universal Spirit , which manifested itself in many different transformations , each with a different name , character , and function , and which yet somehow was regarded as a single deity .
6 The temple of Ceres — Demeter — which was dedicated in 493 B.C. was regarded as the plebeian sanctuary ; it was decorated by Greek artists and had a Greek priestess ( Plin .
7 Soon after it was built , it was left high and dry by a storm and thereafter was used as a signalling tower by Blandy 's .
8 Then it had been Roman revenge against an uprising — but the seizure and detonation of an Israeli atomic bomb by terrorists had made a second holocaust of the land that once was known as Holy .
9 A reduction in volume of 30% or more was regarded as satisfactory gall bladder emptying .
10 In the event , women 's proportionately larger brain was taken as evidence of their childlike physiology , just as in a similar manner women 's recognised capacity to read faster and remember more was interpreted as shallowness .
11 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 .
12 Legislation clearly was seen as the only way to bring about that objective quickly .
13 The suspension of the armed struggle just over a month ago was seen as a break-through , but within days , peace seemed as far away as ever .
14 For the first quarter of 1992 , worldwide turnover was $14,000m , up what is a very modest 3.3% for a company that not long ago was perceived as an engine of relentless growth .
15 D. Stirling ( 30 000 people ) is a place which long ago was chosen as a position and a site for a town .
16 It occurs sometimes in old farm catalogues — a fruitful source of old dialect words — notably in one made at Grove Farm during the last century ; one item here was listed as Hounces and Trappers .
17 This , not unnaturally , led to further confusion on the students ' part , and the treatment suggested here was adopted as the solution that fitted best with what the students felt they wanted to write .
18 Aunt Kit said that the best thing I could do initially was to train as a teacher .
19 Faraday had begun as a chemist , and indeed was regarded as one by most contemporaries throughout his life .
20 Ramsey turned to study law , which then was regarded as the best training for a future politician .
21 The mill by then was known as Belvedere Mill .
22 Oh but my Lord yes , but what I meant was nothing else was put as a far more serious suggestion .
23 He ordered all the Lombard dukes to pay homage to him at Pavia , and from that time onwards was known as ‘ King of the Franks and Lombards , Roman Patrician ’ .
24 From their own number they chose Bel Shanaar , Prince of Tiranoc , an Elf who had distinguished himself in the war and yet was seen as a voice of peace and reason .
25 From 1266 onwards he is regularly described as magister in official records , indicating that he too was recognized as a rabbi within the Jewish community .
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