Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv prt] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well there were two that were bandied about as a cost of national Of social chapter in this department . |
| 2 | The redesign of the course manual , and the introduction of separate laboratory and problem-solving components , were carried out as part of a PhD project . |
| 3 | In addition to internal alterations , general repairs and redecoration of all buildings externally were carried out as part of the Contract , together with associated site works and provision of additional car parking . |
| 4 | The tests were carried out as part of ICI 's extensive research programme into alternatives to CFCs . |
| 5 | The Labour MP for Jarrow said investigations into alleged abuse of the postal system were carried out as a matter of routine . |
| 6 | On 7 July 1575 Sir John Forster , the Warden of the English Middle March , took offence at an insult offered him by his opposite number , supporters of the two men began to jeer at each other , and a skirmish ensued in which several men were killed and Sir John and his son-in-law Lord Francis Russell were carried off as prisoners . |
| 7 | Now you 've found out what animals were voted in as favourites ( and if you have n't turn to p849 for enlightenment ) , how about analysing your own attitudes towards the natural world rather more deeply ? |
| 8 | For their pains , they were written off as sentimental adulators of the noble savage . |
| 9 | But centuries-old practices are difficult to change , and my protests were written off as those of an ignorant missionary , with no respect for traditional customs . |
| 10 | Between the 1150s and the 1180s connections between the curia and Paris were built up as the studium , or university , began to form . |
| 11 | As my father would try in vain to overtake ‘ a bloody idiot ’ on the A82 between Tyndrum and Bridge of Orchy , there were two spectacular things to look at before we were wiped out as a family . |
| 12 | A report in the Sunday Times last week , confirming the Sunday Life story of July 11 , revealed the plans were drawn up as a result of an intelligence source in the IRA who said the organisation had developed a ‘ peace party ’ led by Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness . |
| 13 | The expansion of the police administrative staff guaranteed a faster route to the top for those who were drafted in as clerks . |
| 14 | Good companies as well as bad were going under as a result of falling markets and bad debts , said BCC policy director Richard Brown . |
| 15 | Thirty parked cars were swallowed up as the fireball in Lochmallen Terrace , Sunderland , sent a huge plume of smoke over the city . |
| 16 | ‘ Then the mist came nearer until it reached a man and an eagle and before her eyes they turned to stone and were raised up as a single standing stone , to point up into the sky . |
| 17 | In a classic Desmond manoeuvre , the big names were brought in as Ordinary shareholders for a total of £1m . |
| 18 | A number of that 25-35 age range were brought in as one of two groups who had an opportunity to look at the various stages while the possible designs were still being examined . |
| 19 | In the early 1970s geological research highlighted the fact that lead ores carried distinctive isotope ratio signatures ' , depending upon the geological period when they were laid down as deposits . |
| 20 | At the session five new members of the Cabinet were sworn in as Ministers without portfolio . |
| 21 | Lt.-Col. Moabi Mothibeli and Tsiliso Lehohla were sworn in as Military Council members . |
| 22 | On Sept. 28 a new national army , the Angolan Armed Forces ( FAA ) , was established under the joint command of Gen. Antonio dos Santos França Ndalu and Gen. Arlindo Chenda Pena Ben-Ben who were sworn in as the Chiefs of General Staff on the same day . |
| 23 | In Sweden employers ' associations were set up as a counter-mobilisation to the growing organisational strength and apparent centralisation of the trade union movement . |
| 24 | In option three areas , streets were set out as Woonerven . |
| 25 | Such a statement is a far cry from the years immediately after independence , when many country houses were burnt down as symbols of British oppression . |
| 26 | Scotland Yard detectives have been visiting the Falklands digging up corpses of Argentine soldiers amid allegations that they were executed by British troops and that in some cases ears were cut off as war ‘ trophies ’ in the 1982 conflict . |
| 27 | Health problems were ruled out as a reason for possibly avoiding the trip . |
| 28 | The benevolent influence of a family , such as that depicted in the first chapter of Tom Brown 's Schooldays , reached out to the tenants and other members of the local community ; the girls from the cottages came into the big house as dairy or nursery-maids ; the boys were taken on as under-gardeners or grooms . |
| 29 | You were taken on as a boy and er you got a boy 's wages but you were expected to do as much work as a man . |
| 30 | Nine more were taken in as a precautionary measure while firefighters ventilated the building and removed the canisters involved . |