Example sentences of "[det] [vb past] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is that agreed as a fair way of proceeding ? |
| 2 | The review was regarded as necessary because the change from NCDAD higher diplomas to CNAA master 's degree programmes had resulted in substantial increases in the teaching in art and design courses and what some regarded as a difficult switch from a professional to an intellectual approach . |
| 3 | This came as a great shock to my parents , especially my mother . |
| 4 | This served as a great incentive to spur her on . |
| 5 | This served as a wonderful trigger for the crowd . |
| 6 | This served as a stop-gap measure intended to fill the gap in Rover 's range before the introduction of the Maestro and Montego models . |
| 7 | This started as a small venture in the mid-Seventies , as a result of Laura 's determination to produce cloth woven from wool from her own flock at Rhydoldog . |
| 8 | Or rather , she did not say " Yes " — she said " We 'll have to see , " but in her terminology this counted as a positive affirmative . |
| 9 | More than 10m went into what some saw as a last-ditch attempt to compete with ITV . |
| 10 | I have often heard this said as a last-ditch attempt by adults to find consolation or uplift from a dreich church service or one in which the sermon was the dominant factor and was long-winded or incomprehensible or both . |
| 11 | That came as a great surprise to me I can tell you . |
| 12 | The idea behind playing chords such as those in figs 2–5 as double stops is that they are each played as a separate fingering . |
| 13 | It became evident that there was no shortage of topics , and we decided that a conference was indeed called for in which we could pursue our shared interest in peaceful societies and attempt to challenge what we all regarded as a biased approach which presented human behaviour in terms of how aggressive drives are handled . |
| 14 | It was increasingly difficult for the government to rely on popular hostility towards the teachers ' unions in getting through what many saw as a direct attack on quality in the schools . |
| 15 | The former came as a separate & separated pair … each with new partners ! |
| 16 | What the former valued as a proper earthiness and sensuality , the latter condemned as mere vulgarity . |
| 17 | Both jumped as a great snore rent the air . |
| 18 | They both jumped as a black shadow fell across the mare 's contorted body . |