Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv prt] as an " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a uniformed constable by the bed all the time , but David Evans was hanging about as an unofficial extra . |
| 2 | Labour demanded his resignation after the LAS Board chairman , Jim Harris , announced he was stepping down as an inquiry blamed management failures over the £1.5 million computer-aided despatch system ( CAD ) . |
| 3 | For about the first 12 years of its existence the centre was carried on as an unincorporated organisation . |
| 4 | You 've got to remember that at the time , deregulation was looked on as an open cash-register . |
| 5 | Fred Dunston ( Fritz Deutsch ) , a Youth Allyah worker and former Scout leader from Vienna , was drafted in as an organiser of the transit camp , which was to be built on a large meadow across the road from the training centre at Great Engeham Farm : |
| 6 | Connaught was set up as an investment vehicle after the 1987 crash . |
| 7 | His host of many a good evening , Mr. Harden , at Brathay Hall , was set up as an example of one who did not plant enough trees . |
| 8 | In 1990 a central government agency was set up as an instrument of denationalization of state enterprises , and a statute was passed regulating the issue of securities to the public and setting up a new stock exchange . |
| 9 | Yet it was accordingly — to quote Cole again — that the producers ' co-operative was set up as an industrial , or perhaps more exactly , as a proto-industrial co-operative . |
| 10 | In 1873 a new lime works was established at Halling followed in 1878 by a cement works known as Halling Manor Lime and Cement Works which was set up as an addition to those already operated by Hilton , Anderson and Company at Upnor and Faversham . |
| 11 | ‘ I was brought up as an extreme Conservative with strong Imperialistic ideas , ’ he told his interrogators in 1945 . |
| 12 | The distal end of the ileum was brought out as an ileostomy and sutured to the skin with interrupted stitches ( figure ) . |
| 13 | The patient was followed up as an outpatient , and only supportive treatment with packed red cells given . |
| 14 | The battle was fought out as an intense personal rivalry between Simon and the new permanent secretary to the Local Government Board , John Lambert . |
| 15 | Perhaps it 's the kind of example , in the same way that Westminster Council was held up as an example , and it 's now being criticized by the district auditor . |
| 16 | CHRONIC asthma sufferer Jeffrey Harrison was held up as an example of the alleged inadequacy of student loans and NHS funding by Labour yesterday . |