Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [vb pp] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was made easier as the lake was completely encircled by a road , with a wide pathway down one side of the lake , and we often collected several hundred in one circuit . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , no one could claim that it was a united Cabinet and this was made worse as the everyday issues of government started to go wrong . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And these were performed mostly as mimes , for fear Gabriel should be overburdened with the learning of words . |