Example sentences of "[num] were [verb] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From a record entry of 30 business plans , six were identified as the most promising and went forward to the final where they were interviewed by an experienced panel of judges . |
| 2 | As a close friend of the ANC president , Oliver Tambo — with Mr Mandela the three were seen as the organisation 's ruling ‘ troika ’ — he is certain to become a leading force in South African politics . |
| 3 | Three were selected as the most important : freedom , rationality and manipulability . |
| 4 | This is emergency-speak ; life on red alert : ‘ For the first twenty-five years of my life I lived as a criminal , and the next twenty-five were spent as a second-class citizen , deprived of equality and human rights . ’ |
| 5 | Elections for the Kuwaiti Chamber of Commerce and Industry on May 25 were seen as an indicator of the likely outcome of the general election planned for the following October [ see p. 38789 ] . |
| 6 | Of Kuwait 's total of 935 oil wells , 749 were damaged as a result of Iraq 's occupation and the ensuing war . |
| 7 | In the annual report presented to the conference of the Inter-American Development Bank ( IDB ) held in Montreal , Canada , on April 1-4 , 1990 , the 1980s were described as a " lost decade " for Latin American countries whose per capita gross domestic product ( GDP ) had fallen by approximately 8 per cent to its 1978 level . |
| 8 | The forties were seen as the age of potential transition from ‘ young ’ to ‘ old ’ . |
| 9 | Nine patients ( 12.5% ) underwent a second endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography for duct clearance which was successful in five , seven were done as an elective procedure and two as an emergency , at a median of two months ( range 0.25–7 ) . |
| 10 | It probably failed for the Mixed Fours were re-introduced as a trial in 1960 and reintroduced yet again in 1974 largely on the initiative of Valerie Wormwald the then Ladies ' Captain . |