Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [verb] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes a few years ago yu were seen as a weirdo |
| 2 | When you were born as a scarcely distinguishable blob in the smoked ranks of the industrial army of the poor , when privilege was not only out of sight but in the hands of a foreign country , when you saw the daily cost of a necessary daily grind , then to have a ‘ gift ’ was perhaps the only sure way to see an escape . |
| 3 | If you were reborn as a fish , which fish would you be ? |
| 4 | If you were reborn as a fish , which fish would you be ? |
| 5 | If you were reborn as a fish , which fish would you be ? |
| 6 | If you were reborn as a fish , which fish would you be ? |
| 7 | If you were reborn as a fish , which fish would you be ? |
| 8 | If you were to die as a result of an accident the Plan would pay out up to £40,000 to your estate . |
| 9 | • If you were to die as the result of an accident the Plan would pay out £40,000 to your estate . |
| 10 | You may not get to attend client meetings , but this depends on whether you were employed as an experienced but young professional or are a new entrant who is just beginning . |
| 11 | I suspect you were disguised as a personable young man , a merry companion for the Gascons , after what must have been a long and gruelling journey . |
| 12 | So when you were working as a waitress was that the only money that was coming into the house then ? |
| 13 | But you were working as an orderly ? |
| 14 | They told me that , if Pendero won at Ascot , you were finished as a jockey . |
| 15 | We were treated as an accepted channel of communication with the mass of independent objectors and were often the only other organization apart from the local councils ' consortium whom Michael Barnes asked to comment when dramatic announcements were made . |
| 16 | That is why we need history presented as it is in this book : not just as the brief flicker of time since the industrial revolution or since the invention of writing , but as the 40,000 years of modern thought and language , and the sweep of six million years since we were born as the third chimpanzee . |
| 17 | And as each year went along , erm we were determined as a committee erm that we would lay claims , natural justifiable claims to the employer to increase the remuneration in regard to the incentive scheme . |
| 18 | In order to buy the oil off us , they had to pay sterling and so hence the demand for sterling goes up and suddenly we were viewed as a very rich economy . |
| 19 | We were adopted as a package . |
| 20 | Towards the end of my career in retailing , when we were gigging as a band , I was late quite a few times . |
| 21 | We became known at that time as a labour school and still later , we were known as a farmer-labour school . |
| 22 | I trained under Nurse Gatenby and at the time we were known as the Gatenby girls . |
| 23 | Morley denied that they were intended as a prelude to parliamentary government . |
| 24 | A few months after their wedding , they were seen as a married couple again — this time , in the film Henry V. |
| 25 | As long as new measures of social policy in these areas could be presented as solutions to an inner city problem they stood a greater chance of popular acceptance than if they were seen as no more than further attempts to rid the nation of the welfare state legacy of the post-war era and the dependency mentality that went along with it . |
| 26 | Together they 've got the attitude that comes with being a young band who 've just spent the last month in the studio recording an album , tentatively called ‘ Revelation/s ’ , which will more than fulfil the potential they displayed earlier this year when — along with the likes of near neighbours Ride ( both originally come from Oxford ) and Teenage Fanclub — they were seen as the frontrunners of the rising young guitar bands . |
| 27 | Together they 've got the attitude that comes with being a young band who 've just spent the last month in the studio recording an album , tentatively called ‘ Revelation/s ’ , which will more than fulfil the potential they displayed earlier this year when — along with the likes of near neighbours Ride ( both originally come from Oxford ) and Teenage Fanclub — they were seen as the frontrunners of the rising young guitar bands . |
| 28 | They were seen as the agents of either an alien , infidel force ( the British ) or a dissolute secular power ( the Khedive ) . |
| 29 | They were seen as an opiate , a worthless retreat from the real world . |
| 30 | At best they were regarded as a distraction , if not a danger ; the assumption being that as they did not smoke or play outdoor games , ‘ they devote themselves … to inducing lads to leave humming-tops and marbles , and cleave only to them ’ . |