Example sentences of "[noun pl] was [vb pp] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | " 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 . |
| 3 | Yet he was to say that the entire enterprise of The Cantos was undertaken so as to uncover the reasons why war happens , so as to preclude its happening again . |
| 4 | The drone of the Lancaster aircraft 's four Rolls Royce Merlin engines was heard regularly as Wing Commander Guy Gibson and the men of 617 Squadron practised their low-level bombing techniques . |
| 5 | THE first strike for 18 years among Germany 's 2.3m public sector employees was threatened yesterday as the government rejected a 5.4 p.c. pay rise recommended by arbitrators , writes Robin Gedye . |
| 6 | THE ‘ carping and negative ’ attitude of government politicians was attacked yesterday as salmon farmers gave warning of the threats facing a vital industry for the Highlands and Islands . |
| 7 | Flow cytometric analysis of expression of integrins on inhibitor treated and untreated HT-29 cells was conducted essentially as described . |