Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [verb] they as " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he might bear in mind that muddled dispositions in his will could somehow be validated if the jurists were able to construe them as trusts . |
| 2 | The script kept sending out these little signals ( 'It 's only when there 's land around that sea travel becomes really interesting' ) but it was possible to take them as evidence not of exhaustion but of apprehension about the project . |
| 3 | Apart from their fair hair and strong features , there was little to label them as twins , she thought , wondering which was her father , and which her uncle . |
| 4 | It was ludicrous to see them as a threat to security . |
| 5 | A Country Diary : OXFORDSHIRE : On the first morning of this month , whilst watching the usual passage of gulls to the local refuse-dump , I spotted a flock of waders , estimated at between 300 and 400 , much higher up and heading due south , and , a matter of seconds later , a similar party followed them on the same course , and I was able to identify them as Golden Plover . |
| 6 | A few days later , immediately alongside the busy M40 , a pause at traffic-lights enabled me to glance at a dense assembly of birds , as closely-packed as starlings , extending for almost a quarter of a mile along the edge of the arable field , and I was able to identify them as a mixture of Lapwing and ‘ goldies , ’ all immobile , and many of the latter with their heads tucked in as if fast asleep . |