Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] as the [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Construction faults , equipment failure and inadequate training of staff were given as the major causes of incidents . |
| 6 | Most often only the problems of the children were given as the significant handicaps to placement . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In generic terms , these were regarded as the operational functions of the College , ie those primarily concerned with delivering the end product . |
| 12 | Golf on the Continent in the 1920s was very much a pastime for the rich , whereas in Britain professionals were employed by clubs as low-paid servants : across the Channel they were regarded as the social equals of the members they served , by virtue of their skill at the game . |
| 13 | Many of Brindley 's ideas were regarded as the hair-brained schemes of a madman which would never see the light of day . |
| 14 | Desks were regarded as the biggest culprit for damage , followed by doors and their handles . |
| 15 | Previous studies have tended to concentrate almost exclusively on scientists ' choices between different theories or explanations since such choices were regarded as the characteristic feature of science . |
| 16 | Any nominated initials/sex identity codes which occurred more than once were treated as the same person . |
| 17 | Suppose a Royal Society of Building were formed as the professional home for all the professionals involved in building . |
| 18 | His Political Memoranda , written for the instruction of his Residents in the period 1902 to 1905 and published in 1906 , were revered as the canonical texts of Indirect Rule , and his administrative record , as Hugh Clifford discovered upon succeeding him as governor of Nigeria , was regarded as beyond criticism . |
| 19 | Fears of large-scale coastal flooding were averted as the fierce winds shifted at the last minute . |
| 20 | Such an objective involved establishing what , in practice , were to stand as the proper constituents of the new English , and their relation to each other . |
| 21 | All over the camp in wild panic the huts were emptying as the remaining occupants scrambled for the safety of the hills and the Russian frontier beyond . |
| 22 | In 1880 the eleven battalions were merged as The 1st Cumberland and 1st Westmorland Rifle volunteer Corps . |
| 23 | In the final analysis , neither specialization , nor " crude and slovenly workmanship " , nor technical inadequacies , were seen as the greatest dangers . |
| 24 | What , then , were seen as the essential elements of the British party model , and how do these elements add up so as to make for responsible party government and the popular control of public policy ? |
| 25 | Green activists have claimed that the Commission 's definition of development retains the mindset of the 1960s , when vast infrastructural improvement schemes were seen as the only way to improve depressed local economies . |
| 26 | The allegations against Lacayo were seen as the latest attempt by right-wing elements in the ruling 14-party ruling coalition ( still known as the National Opposition Union , UNO ) to discredit the government , which it claimed was collaborating on security and economic matters with the left-wing Sandinista National Liberation Front ( FSLN ) , the main opposition party [ see p. 38957 ] . |
| 27 | At national level , Adamu M. Fika and Stephen B Agodo , both of whom had previously held senior posts in the Cabinet office , were named as the administrative secretaries ; a further 44 secretaries were appointed at state level . |
| 28 | In general , roses have played a part in everyday life from the time of the ancient Egyptians and Chinese , and have always been loved and treated with veneration , and repeatedly illustrated in herbals and paintings , they were adopted as the national flower in Britain from the Middle Ages . |
| 29 | In this view the accordant summits in areas like the ridge and valley province of the USA were interpreted as the inevitable result of dynamic equilibrium rather than as remnants of earlier erosion cycles , and this followed from the assumption ( Hack , 1960 , p. 81 ) that : |
| 30 | Phosphatidyl choline species composed of various acyl fatty acids in the sn-1 and sn-2 positions were used as the sole phosphlipid in otherwise identical model bile solutions . |