Example sentences of "[noun] was [vb pp] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Eventually the horse was led away as wholly useless and intractable . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Tissue type plasminogen activator antigen was measured essentially as described by Rijken et al . |
| 6 | The iron and steel industry of Rotherham exists because long ago iron ore was mined locally as well as coal . |
| 7 | The fatalism of life at work was accepted just as it was believed that they could not help themselves or , indeed , be helped . |
| 8 | Northern Tyneside was identified so as to incorporate all types of residential locale . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The cannery was abandoned almost as soon as it was built . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Th IN cleavage reaction was performed basically as described previously ( 22 ) . |
| 15 | The lead was given both as composer and as publisher by Byrd 's pupil Morley . |
| 16 | A VITAL , hitherto forgotten point was raised yesterday as preparations were made for a controversial public inquiry . |
| 17 | So ( for all her personal extravagance ) the principessa was regarded exactly as she regarded herself , just decently well off . |
| 18 | But I do n't know how it was , but it came about that this confiscation business was dropped just as soon as we Labour got into power . |
| 19 | This process was initiated just as the economic crisis began to make itself felt in Spain . |
| 20 | Electrogenic ion transport was measured directly as SCC recorded by voltage clamping the tissue at zero potential , as described previously . |
| 21 | " Antiquity " for philological purposes was conceived primarily as the two ancient languages and the literature written in them ; and its " study " was , generally speaking , the province of learned individuals concerned , above all , with the restoration and exegesis of the ancient texts . |
| 22 | Another dramatic revelation afforded by the restoration process was the fact that the head of the tight faced , balding Benedictine seated at the right of the picture , whose black habit appears strangely severe amid so many bright fabrics , was an afterthought , painted on paper and stuck onto the canvas with animal glue when the rest was finished so as not to offend an unknown cleric . |
| 23 | Even allowing for this , the surface was left just as it came out of the mould . |
| 24 | Release of prostaglandin E2 , 6k prostaglandin F1a , and thromboxane B2 into the incubation media was determined radioimmunologically as described previously . |
| 25 | The transfection was performed exactly as described for stationary cells except all procedures were carried out with medium containing 10% serum . |
| 26 | And Gale was involved again as compatriot Ivan Henjak collected his kick ahead to touch down . |
| 27 | Barr Thomson Engineering was relaunched yesterday as BTE ( Glenrothes ) , after an 11-week negotiation culminated in an innovative rescue package involving a partnership with a major customer , Tecnomarine Services of Aberdeen , and a consortium of backers from both the public and private sectors . |
| 28 | ‘ Chairman — the first off the mark was Guy Husband from Six ‘ — I 'm sorry to be singing the school song so early , but the Meeting Notice was classified merely as ‘ Secret , . |
| 29 | It happened that the dog was silenced just as her last remark emerged , and over his body , flattened now to the sheet where he lay panting , the old woman sitting up in the bed flashed her a look . |
| 30 | Then her anger was roused again as she saw that a van had double parked alongside her yellow Metro City . |