Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Death rates were calculated as the annual number of deaths in a population of 100000 in each age and sex groups . |
| 2 | Graphs showing the relative enhancement of P ( b ) and v 1 ( c ) following the tetanus as a function of the initial P. The P and v 1 ratios were calculated as the mean value for the 500 trials immediately after the tetanus divided by the mean for the 500 trials before the tetanus . |
| 3 | However , this advantage would be lost if the allophones that were the product of word-internal context-effects were also caused by context-effects across word boundaries : thus if in lee were realised as a voiceless [ l ] in a moderately fast production of … tip leewards … , lee would once more be embedded within plea even at an allophonic level of representation . |
| 4 | The following were listed as the key points in economic construction during the coming decade and the eighth five-year plan period : strengthening agriculture ; strengthening the basic industries and infrastructure and reorganizing and transforming the processing industry ; and strengthening educational , scientific and technological undertakings . |
| 5 | The continued decline of international prices for the LDCs ' main export products during the last decade ; the danger of a fall in official development assistance and the consequences of the Gulf crisis , were listed as the main factors affecting growth in LDCs . |
| 6 | In yet another demonstration of Yugoslavia 's fragmentation along ethnic lines , hostility between Serbs and Moslems ( who were recognized as a distinct nationality in Yugoslavia ) led to clashes in Bosnia-Hercegovina 's southern town of Foca , and across the nearby border in Serbia 's Novi Pazar district ( part of the historic Sanjak region ) . |
| 7 | If the cells were placed as a solid clump in the sandwich , induction was good and many of the cells developed into muscle ; but if the cells were placed in the sandwich as a thin single layer no muscle cells developed . |
| 8 | All injections were given as a 200 µl bolus of neuropeptide Y ( Peninsula , Belmont , CA , USA ) dissolved in sterile 0.9% saline containing 0.1% dog albumin ( Sigma , St Louis , MO , USA ) or the carrier alone as control . |
| 9 | And in the city 's claim for a grant , figures for the Newtown and Ladywood districts were given as a shocking 514.61 crimes for every 1,000 people living there . |
| 10 | Construction faults , equipment failure and inadequate training of staff were given as the major causes of incidents . |
| 11 | Most often only the problems of the children were given as the significant handicaps to placement . |
| 12 | Although more than half earned up to £24,000 , with a further 17 per cent getting more , low running costs were given as the main reason for their choice . |
| 13 | Parking problems and noise in the mainly residential area around Darlington Memorial hospital , where the development would have taken place , were given as the main reasons for dismissing the appeal by Surrey-based Bioplan . |
| 14 | Parts of the Lacandona forest were designated as a biological reserve earlier this year [ see ED 56 ] . |
| 15 | The claimant could not be described as the lawful holder of the bill of lading unless a given copy or all the copies issued by the carrier were designated as the original bill or set of bills . |
| 16 | Bir Zeit was the largest university in the West Bank and the election results were regarded as a good indicator of general Palestinian support for the two main competing groups , the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) and the Islamic Resistance Movement ( Hamas ) . |
| 17 | His works were regarded as a primary source of overriding significance for the study not merely of his own activity but of any and every aspect of the history of the revolution . |
| 18 | If , however , liquidity were regarded as a scarce commodity , then the bond price would fall as the degree of liquidity rose , in which case the coefficient on the liquidity measure would be negative . |
| 19 | Although the colliery communities -were never really associated with the cult of respectability , which was so important in dividing the " rough " from the " respectable " working class in Victorian England , nevertheless the pit brow women were regarded as a moral threat . |
| 20 | Before the stories of Helen Keller and Laura Bridgman , two educated deaf and blind ladies in America , became known , deaf and blind people were regarded as a great curiosity . |
| 21 | These youth cliques , with picturesque names like Edelweisspiraten or , based on their taste in music , Swing , were regarded as a political menace by the regime , and for the most part their behaviour did contain a distinct political dimension — rejection of the Party , the Hitler Youth , the regime , and the Führer himself and the lack of freedom and dull uniformity which his rule represented . |
| 22 | It is important to stress that enterprise zones were regarded as a political experiment by the Conservative government elected in 1979 . |
| 23 | Budget deficits were regarded as a normal feature of economic management based on Keynesian principles . |
| 24 | Last-minute trips to Boston by the employment minister , Ruari Quinn , and local mayor , Padric McCormack , were regarded as a face-saving exercise — something to be seen to be done . |
| 25 | ( The Companies House penalties were regarded as a minor inconvenience by the directors . ) |
| 26 | If the ‘ Hooligans ’ were regarded as an un-English phenomenon , they were also understood as an entirely unprecedented development and respectable England felt itself to have been suddenly engulfed in a new rush of crime . |
| 27 | The results — 66 per cent for the PLO , 33 per cent for Hamas and 1 per cent for Islamic Jihad — were regarded as an important signal of the depth of support for the PLO mainstream and its policy of negotiation with Israel . |
| 28 | WHEN I first encountered South German wheat beers , in the early to mid 1960s , they were regarded as an old-fashioned , rustic style , favoured by old ladies with large hats . |
| 29 | At this central sanctuary there was no place for female officiants as the Temple 's affairs were regarded as the sole responsibility of an organized , hereditary male priesthood dedicated to the service of Yahweh . |
| 30 | In generic terms , these were regarded as the operational functions of the College , ie those primarily concerned with delivering the end product . |