Example sentences of "[noun sg] were [vb pp] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | More sinister changelings became channels for daemons which walked the land in those host bodies , twisting and melting their anatomy into devilish monstrosities with scales and horns , claws and feelers — until the possessed bodies finally fell apart , until the vestiges of corrupted mind were sucked away as spirit-meat for those parasites from outside of normality . |
| 2 | If , however , the CLRC 's proposal were altered so as to make mercy killing into a new qualified defence to murder , with the normal maximum sentence of life imprisonment , the central plank of the opposition to an explicit recognition of this mitigation in English law would disappear . |
| 3 | Where land was readily acquired so that the farmstead could be enlarged in a logical way , rather than the haphazard development which resulted from the erection of buildings on whatever sites became available , individual buildings within the grouping were sited so as to maximise efficiency . |
| 4 | Areas of true wilderness were maintained solely as hunting preserves for the ruling élite , whose sporting exploits were commonly used to illustrate their potency as rulers and conquerors ( MacKenzie , 1989 ) . |
| 5 | SHARES and sterling were becalmed yesterday as dealers looked to company results to provide a clear lead on the UK economic outlook . |
| 6 | To detect contamination occurring during preparation of samples , negative control samples containing only water were treated exactly as the tissue samples and examined by polymerase chain reaction techniques . |
| 7 | And conditions were still at just about the same , but it had been an old hotel , so all the rooms at the top were left just as the bedrooms would have been , so you went up and down steps , and along corridors . |
| 8 | In situ hybridizations on tissue sections of zebrafish embryos after 6- , 12- , 24- and 36 hours of development were performed exactly as previously described ( 54 ) using both the entire cDNA insert and a 994 bp Eco RI- Sal I from the 3' untranslated sequence of pou [ c ] as probes . |
| 9 | DNA isolation , restriction enzyme digestion , agarose gel electrophoresis , Southern blot transfer , and hybridization were performed essentially as described ( 36 ) . |
| 10 | Where mechanical clearance was undertaken , 200 mm of runoff and of soil were lost annually as compared to 48 mm of runoff and of soil wash where manual clearing , followed by mechanised tillage , were practised . |
| 11 | Female sexuality and reproduction were seen particularly as representative of the mortality that separates us from the eternal and binds us to temporal corruptible life . |
| 12 | The rules of the Young Communist League were altered so as to widen its membership " not only to those who support its stated policy and aims , but also to those who , while not being actively hostile to its policy and aims , wish to study Socialism " . |
| 13 | In some orders , special books of adventure were kept so as ‘ to give valour its due ‘ . |
| 14 | The couple were listed simply as Extract 41 — the 41st wedding to take place in registrar Molly Croll 's district this year . |
| 15 | Those of the junior staff who could provide a satisfactory alibi were allowed home as soon as it had been checked ; one by one and with some reluctance at missing the excitements to come they went their way . |
| 16 | Ranulf and the lay brother were left behind as Thomas explained that the Picti were secretive people , hostile to those races who had pushed them from their lands and so did not take kindly to strangers . |
| 17 | Yesterday joinery and construction trainees at the New Careers centre on Darlington 's Faverdale industrial estate were sent home as soon as they arrived . |
| 18 | Yesterday joinery and construction trainees at the New Careers scheme on Darlington 's Faverdale industrial estate were sent home as soon as they arrived at the centre . |
| 19 | CAMPUSES throughout the region were hit yesterday as lecturers launched a national one-day strike over pay . |