Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [verb] as [art] " in BNC.

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1 The proposed continuation schools were seen as a means whereby the newly-discovered young workers would be given a ‘ liberal ’ education , involving a version of civic ethics which emphasized both occupational adaptability and community service .
2 This is logical also on the grounds that the remedies were proved as the single remedy and not as mixtures , and mixtures of remedies may have effects which are different from those of their component parts .
3 Since offices were regarded as a form of property , reform could be stigmatized as an encroachment upon freehold .
4 The group 's present offices were intended as a temporary base before staff moved into better premises which can not be used because of fire damage .
5 A number of ministries were merged as a cost-cutting measure .
6 Achieved plasma glucose and insulin concentrations were determined as the mean of the 50 , 55 , and 60 minute samples .
7 Plasma glucose concentrations were recorded as the mean of six determinations by a glucose oxidase method in each sample .
8 Methane concentrations were calculated as the difference between breath and a corresponding room air sample .
9 However , he said yesterday that it was important to distinguish between a crime in which computers were used as a tool , and computer fraud , which involved manipulating or corrupting a mainframe , which was still relatively uncommon .
10 From this base , a set of performance indicators were generated as the top level of the information set .
11 Men 's competition entries were low , nine being typical and in the 1911 Spring Meeting the 26 entries were hailed as a record and an event of high quality , even though only one player broke 90 gross .
12 All injections were given as a 200 µl bolus of neuropeptide Y ( Peninsula , Belmont , CA , USA ) dissolved in sterile 0.9% saline containing 0.1% dog albumin ( Sigma , St Louis , MO , USA ) or the carrier alone as control .
13 While manufacturers were perceived as the traditional users of sales promotion , now retailers and financial institutions are realising that these techniques can help build business .
14 Under the Third Republic coded diplomatic telegrams were passed as a matter of course to the French foreign office by the postal authorities to be decoded and read ; and this activity reached a climax in the first years of the twentieth century .
15 Normal cats have the distribution shown at the left , cats deprived of vision in the contralateral eye during the first three months of life have the distribution shown in the middle , and cats whose eyes were misaligned as a result of surgery have the distribution shown at the right .
16 Neighbouring homes were evacuated as a precaution .
17 In particular , the project looks at the implications of the manner in which rural and urban environments were changed as a result of large-scale overhead transmission ; at public reaction to the transformation of the ways in which homes were heated , lit and cleaned ; and at the response to the new forms of mass production facilitated by the use of electric power .
18 KOMIKs were developed as a result of the work of SIDT 's SEI ! theatre group , which performs theme-based dramatisations of issues being discussed in workshops .
19 The two missing crewmen were named as the skipper , Tony Mapplebreck , in his 30s and married with three children , from Bridlington , and crewman Shaun Rowley , 21 , who was single and lived in Scarborough .
20 All over the camp in wild panic the huts were emptying as the remaining occupants scrambled for the safety of the hills and the Russian frontier beyond .
21 These popular books were issued as the trilogy , Lark Rise to Candleford ( 1945 ) , with a perceptive introduction by H. J. Massingham [ q.v . ] .
22 Here Acton followed the general materialist principles of contemporary physiology , in which ideas and sensations were conceived as the direct product of physical processes or environmental influences .
23 And in the city 's claim for a grant , figures for the Newtown and Ladywood districts were given as a shocking 514.61 crimes for every 1,000 people living there .
24 Broadly speaking the responses were taken as a reaffirmation of the existing partnership at two levels — between the Council and institutions , and between subject boards and academic staff : ‘ the mechanisms proposed in the paper for modifying the partnership had clearly been rejected ’ , but the rejection of the proposals did not mean that the matter could there rest .
25 There was no evidence of this , but it is clear that old rivalries were used as an excuse for fights .
26 Of those whose initial source was parents , most were girls , and more middle-class parents were cited as a first source of information than working-class parents .
27 Graphs showing the relative enhancement of P ( b ) and v 1 ( c ) following the tetanus as a function of the initial P. The P and v 1 ratios were calculated as the mean value for the 500 trials immediately after the tetanus divided by the mean for the 500 trials before the tetanus .
28 However , if the controlled clinical trials were used as the ‘ gold standard ’ on which anticoagulation with warfarin was based , it is probable that most older people with AF identified by community screening would not be treated .
29 The focus of the inter-war depression in Scotland , the Northern Region and Wales is universally attributed to specialization in a narrow band of declining industries , and these areas were identified as the principal target of regional policy for the subsequent decades .
30 All those administrations had subscribed to the " domino theory " : the non-Communist countries were seen as a set of dominoes , and if one was knocked over ( i.e. went Communist ) then the others would also tumble .
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