Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deficits were offset through membership subscriptions , which declined in the late forties , and through sums remitted to the District which were calculated annually as per capita branch quotas . |
| 2 | Although many more ancient monuments and ruins existed than survive today , they were either thought of as relatively recent ruins or natural phenomena , or else they were explained away as having been made by gods or legendary heroes . |
| 3 | The couple were listed simply as Extract 41 — the 41st wedding to take place in registrar Molly Croll 's district this year . |
| 4 | Some examples of such arrangements were given above as illustrations of the way in which governmental functions may be performed by non-governmental bodies . |
| 5 | The company also made records for the ‘ World-echo ’ and ‘ Siemens ’ labels , and they were given away as Christmas presents in giant Christmas crackers made by Mead & Fields Ltd . |
| 6 | He had not had much hope that they would rent the garage to a teenager , since teenagers were regarded generally as being as reliable as something out of the zoo . |
| 7 | To detect contamination occurring during preparation of samples , negative control samples containing only water were treated exactly as the tissue samples and examined by polymerase chain reaction techniques . |
| 8 | In February 1992 , however , Lautro 's Rules were amended so as to give other persons served with an intervention notice the right to appeal against it : see new rules 7.28 and 7.3(12) . |
| 9 | If , however , the CLRC 's proposal were altered so as to make mercy killing into a new qualified defence to murder , with the normal maximum sentence of life imprisonment , the central plank of the opposition to an explicit recognition of this mitigation in English law would disappear . |
| 10 | The rules of the Young Communist League were altered so as to widen its membership " not only to those who support its stated policy and aims , but also to those who , while not being actively hostile to its policy and aims , wish to study Socialism " . |
| 11 | This was followed in 1988 by a reform of the Community Budget in which steps were taken to shift expenditure from agricultural to the structural funds , that is those concerned with regional and social matters , and the expenditure rules were recast so as to concentrate such structural spending on the poorest regions . |
| 12 | They were grouped just as he had left them , all looking warily after him . |
| 13 | In this analysis hospitals 1 and 2 were the county 's main consultant units , all the other consultant units were grouped together as hospital 3 , and all the general practitioner units were grouped together . |
| 14 | According to Judge Ovidiu Zarnescu , president of the Central Electoral Bureau , at the start of the campaign 5,716 candidates were nominated either as independents or by one of the 73 political parties for the 387 elective National Assembly seats and 1,584 candidates were nominated for the 119 Senate seats . |
| 15 | More sinister changelings became channels for daemons which walked the land in those host bodies , twisting and melting their anatomy into devilish monstrosities with scales and horns , claws and feelers — until the possessed bodies finally fell apart , until the vestiges of corrupted mind were sucked away as spirit-meat for those parasites from outside of normality . |
| 16 | They were caught red-handed as they carried part of a 200kg haul , worth £264,000 on the streets , into a warehouse near Madrid . |
| 17 | Once Tam darted a terrified glance over his shoulder and saw Kim sprawled across the writing-table ; white faced and trembling from head to toe , he had his eyes closed and his fists were clenched tight as he summoned up every last ounce of courage in his eleven-year-old body to endure his father 's beating without weeping or crying out . |
| 18 | In Africa and Asia most LDCs were former European colonial possessions and as such were considered primarily as a source of raw materials and food . |
| 19 | Peptide stimulations and CTL assays were done essentially as described in the legend to Fig. 2 . |
| 20 | Where land was readily acquired so that the farmstead could be enlarged in a logical way , rather than the haphazard development which resulted from the erection of buildings on whatever sites became available , individual buildings within the grouping were sited so as to maximise efficiency . |
| 21 | Female sexuality and reproduction were seen particularly as representative of the mortality that separates us from the eternal and binds us to temporal corruptible life . |
| 22 | Whatever social and political abuses Herod might perpetrate , these were seen merely as symptoms of a much more profound dilemma — the dilemma of a people who had been abandoned by their God . |
| 23 | They were turned away as eight fire engines brought firefighters to tackle the blaze at St Anselm and Cecilia church in Holborn , London . |
| 24 | In 1842 the youngest employee at the mine was a girl aged six , yet numbers were turned away as being too young ! |
| 25 | The original geological maps , which will be described in more detail below , were prepared only as single-copy manuscripts , making access for researchers outside Edinburgh more difficult , and leading to an unintentional positive discrimination in favour of locally-based students . |
| 26 | Nuclear extracts from Hep3B cells ( either untreated or stimulated with 1000U/ml IL-6 ) were prepared essentially as described ( 34 ) except that the buffers contained the phosphatase inhibitors , sodium fluoride ( 50mM ) and sodium pyrophosphate ( 10mM ) . |
| 27 | Two divers who died searching a wrecked ship off Swanage , Dorset , were named yesterday as Ivan Woolf , 51 , from Ilford , Essex , and medical student Elizabeth Green , 23 , from Newmarket , Suffolk . |
| 28 | TWO MEN who died when their training aircraft crashed in a field in Ayrshire on Thursday were named yesterday as investigations into the cause of the accident continued . |
| 29 | His routines were organized so as to facilitate this intellectual process : weekends were reserved for Colombey , where he could take long walks and mull over problems ; workday schedules at the Elysée were strictly adhered to ; he insisted on absolute punctuality and an atmosphere of unruffled calm . |
| 30 | In some cases they were turned away immediately , but , where they were invited to give further details , these were matched so as to be different enough not to arouse suspicion but similar in all respects that might be significant to a potential employer . |