Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The larger troops , plausibly , were developed as protection from diurnal predators . |
| 2 | Reservoirs at Sulby and Naseby , both in valleys of feeders to the Avon , were completed as part of the main construction programme in 1914 and 1921 respectively ; the head of Naseby was raised in 1934 and ‘ New Sulby ’ , better known as Welford Reservoir , came into use in 1837 . |
| 3 | Applied geology mapping Engineering geological interpretations of the soils and rocks of the Wrexham and Stoke-on-Trent areas were completed as part of the applied geological mapping of these areas for the Department of the Environment . |
| 4 | Both these numbers were given as part of a short questionnaire about their driving histories . |
| 5 | Soil erosion was not helped by the over-stocking of cattle which were regarded as wealth , and essential for paying " lobola " or bride-price . |
| 6 | At Sketch-Club meetings his witticisms were regarded as part of the fun . |
| 7 | The breakdown of CENTO and SEATO were regarded as part of a historical process which paralleled the emergence of the Soviet Union as a superpower with its own ‘ legitimate interests ’ in the Third World . |
| 8 | This is partly because fishing rights erm were written in erm to the , to the European Community system erm as part of in a sense the agricultural policy , erm because they were regarded as part of food policy , and it was thought that you must have , if you 're going to have a common agricultural policy , and that was one of the important points erm of the negotiations for setting up the European Community , then a common fisheries policy went alongside with that . |
| 9 | The suspicion must be that for all their draconian nature , Hitler 's comments on the Jews were regarded as stereotype repetition , and of little interest compared with his assessment of the war situation . |
| 10 | Bone-setters were regarded as witch doctors by orthodox Irish medical men , but were never without a clientele , human or animal . |
| 11 | The youngest of these was a girl of six ; the other 's ranged up to the age of 12 , after which it seems , they were regarded as adult . |
| 12 | Over at East New Houses in Baldersdale the youngsters they hired were regarded as family . |
| 13 | The small church was filled with relatives and friends , including the entire staff from the Wilderness , who were regarded as family . |
| 14 | Lanham suggests that if cases such as these were treated as rape , this would devalue the crime , which would be against the best interest of women . |
| 15 | The genera Ophialcaea and Ophiotreta were treated as subgenera of Ophiacantha by Mortensen ( 1936 ) and Fell ( 1960 ) , but H. L. Clark ( 1915 ) and Koehler ( 1922 , 1931 ) considered them to be of generic rank , a treatment followed here pending future study on the generic boundaries in this subfamily . |
| 16 | This would ensure that at least the following were treated as Class A : |
| 17 | I think the atmosphere is certainly lost and the environment is different today without the patients , and their attitude was that this was more like a family than a hospital ward and they were treated as family . |
| 18 | The development and dissemination of the family smoking education project were examined as part of the development of the English language version , but the project 's effect on smoking behaviour has not been thoroughly evaluated . |
| 19 | whatever they were using as bait presumably some mackerel or something like that but , but as I was saying you could see it trailing through and then all , suddenly out of like nowhere this fish would come and like chase after it |
| 20 | ‘ Fighting ships that were disguised as merchant vessels were known as Q-ships and we 've just done a straight lift from there , ’ she said . |
| 21 | Global Marine were enrolled as part of the subsurface team and managed drilling operations under a novel performance-related contract . |
| 22 | REPORTS that the Government plans to save about 13 of the 31 coal mines threatened with closure — but only for about two years — were dismissed as speculation by Downing Street last night . |
| 23 | For many ‘ A ’ stream children there was little place on the timetable for music , dance , art , craft , poetry , the humanities — subjects which were dismissed as window-dressing by some of my professional colleagues . |
| 24 | On this and the following day , over 300 sorties were flown as part of preparations for the US Marine invasion of Tulagi and two smaller nearby islands . |
| 25 | In a healthy democracy the discussions of the representative assembly will as it were act as chairman for the multifarious informal discussion of the nation as a whole , and the measure of the successful working of democracy is the extent to which the voting of the ordinary man and woman has been informed by this widely diffused public discussion . |
| 26 | It is possible that many cases of petty assault were instituted as retaliation for verbal abuse . |
| 27 | PEPs originally were designed as part of the Government 's plan to help more people become share owners by offering them the chance to invest in the Stock Exchange . |
| 28 | They were designed as part of a diploma intended for teachers in post with the title ‘ Teaching in the Multi Ethnic School ’ in the late seventies . |
| 29 | Paige looked up , seeing how the lines of his face were softening as sleep overcame him . |
| 30 | Duplicate samples of 10 mg freeze dried faeces were taken , 100 µl 3 H cholic acid ( 17 nCi=0.68 pmol ) and 0.25 µmol nordeoxycholic acid were added as recovery standards . |