Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [vb pp] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The words were spoken mechanically as though by a bad actor . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | At two stores , cars were used unsuccessfully as battering rams to breach security shutters . |
| 6 | At two stores , cars were used unsuccessfully as battering rams to breach security shutters . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Voices were raised outside as he progressed through the crowd , but he told everyone to ‘ move on ’ and ‘ go home ’ , instructions which , of course , were ignored . |
| 9 | A woman who died in a fire on Tuesday was named yesterday as Mary Morrison Macleod , 32 , of Bridge Cottages , Newmarket , on the outskirts of Stornoway . |
| 10 | Eventually the horse was led away as wholly useless and intractable . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | IgG anti-bovine lactoferrin antibodies were measured essentially as described above , except that no negative or positive serum references were used . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Areas of true wilderness were maintained solely as hunting preserves for the ruling élite , whose sporting exploits were commonly used to illustrate their potency as rulers and conquerors ( MacKenzie , 1989 ) . |
| 15 | With effect from the general election of 1965 West German electoral law was amended so as to impose stricter limits on variations in constituency magnitudes . |
| 16 | Perhaps above all , the closeness of the relationship between husband and wife is often valued more for itself than in the days when marriage was seen mainly as the road to Procreation or when economic and family convenience dictated the union . |
| 17 | Tissue type plasminogen activator antigen was measured essentially as described by Rijken et al . |
| 18 | The iron and steel industry of Rotherham exists because long ago iron ore was mined locally as well as coal . |
| 19 | The fatalism of life at work was accepted just as it was believed that they could not help themselves or , indeed , be helped . |
| 20 | Northern Tyneside was identified so as to incorporate all types of residential locale . |
| 21 | THE bid by Edinburgh-based Pittencrieff for Aberdeen Petroleum was rejected yesterday as inadequate , with Aberdeen executives pointing out that there was no cash alternative to the all-share offer which valued the company at £7.5 million . |
| 22 | The cannery was abandoned almost as soon as it was built . |
| 23 | 1967 ; minds were blown ; dance was left behind as beats stretched out into timelessness ; rock acquired a whole new chromatic and spatial vocabulary , as new kinds of instrumentation were added and the studio itself became an instrument ; the first dabblings with stage effects and multi-media experience were made . |
| 24 | As a result , by about the year 400 Christmas Day had become a significant date in the Christian Year : 25 December was chosen so as to exorcize the great pagan festival of the solar solstice . |
| 25 | A BRITISH solicitor wanted in the United States for alleged conspiracy to sell stolen British Treasury bills was arrested yesterday as he arrived in Cyprus . |
| 26 | SHARES and sterling were becalmed yesterday as dealers looked to company results to provide a clear lead on the UK economic outlook . |
| 27 | Th IN cleavage reaction was performed basically as described previously ( 22 ) . |
| 28 | The lead was given both as composer and as publisher by Byrd 's pupil Morley . |
| 29 | A VITAL , hitherto forgotten point was raised yesterday as preparations were made for a controversial public inquiry . |
| 30 | So ( for all her personal extravagance ) the principessa was regarded exactly as she regarded herself , just decently well off . |