Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] as [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is considerably larger than the particle size used by Korth ( 1979 ) , but since even they had little effect on the small mammal bone , two large clasts were added as a third stage , weighing 368 g between them . |
| 2 | In 1880 the eleven battalions were merged as The 1st Cumberland and 1st Westmorland Rifle volunteer Corps . |
| 3 | That is why we need history presented as it is in this book : not just as the brief flicker of time since the industrial revolution or since the invention of writing , but as the 40,000 years of modern thought and language , and the sweep of six million years since we were born as the third chimpanzee . |
| 4 | Erm It 's now thr nearly three years since management procedures were introduced as the first stage of our aspirations to become quality assured . |
| 5 | Of those whose initial source was parents , most were girls , and more middle-class parents were cited as a first source of information than working-class parents . |
| 6 | They were to act as the first stage in settling disputes , and there would be " no stoppage of work until any difference or dispute had been referred to them or if necessary to the District or National Board as circumstances may require " . |
| 7 | On Oct. 25 Costa Rica was ratified as the 100th member of the General Treaty on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) . |
| 8 | They seem to have taken the view that deportation was justified as a last resort when the victim had persistently ignored warnings , and when nothing further could be done to achieve his rehabilitation . |
| 9 | El Salvador was included as the 102nd contracting party to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) in an official list released on May 24 . |
| 10 | To strengthen the validity of this conclusion , a group of symptomatic patients without coeliac disease with normal intestinal mucosa was added as a second control group , in addition to age matched normal controls . |
| 11 | A small sponge filter was placed in the tank and infusoria was fed as a first food . |
| 12 | The South-West — whose Bath-Bristol-Gloucester resources have appeared in the past to resemble rugby 's equivalent of the Bermuda Triangle — are set on improving their disappointing Divisional Championship record , and their success against Leinster in Dublin last week was seen as a first step in the right direction . |
| 13 | For the pacifists of the ILP , however , the Memorandum was seen as a first stage in the creation of a new diplomacy from below ; ‘ our own proclamations … our own diplomacy … our own international meetings ’ , as MacDonald had said at the Leeds Convention . |
| 14 | This was seen as a first step towards integrating the Soviet economy with international financial institutions , although this did not permit Soviet participation in GATT 's current multilateral Uruguay Round of trade discussions . |
| 15 | The CP acceptance of the offer was seen as a first step to its entering the CODESA process . |
| 16 | The declaration was seen as a last gesture by Annamalai Varatharaja Perumal , the Chief Minister of the Council and leader of the EPRLF , who subsequently left Sri Lanka along with his wife and family . |
| 17 | Finally , if the worst happened , Spain was seen as a last line of continental defence . |
| 18 | The Commander of the Air Force since 1979 , Gen. Juan Rafael Bustillo , was appointed military attaché to Israel at the beginning of January 1990 in what was seen as the first step in reducing the power of senior right-wing officers . |
| 19 | The signature of a declaration on relations between the two countries was seen as the first step towards a future inter-state treaty . |
| 20 | Getting Microsoft Windows to run remotely on a Sun Microsystems Inc workstation was seen as the last step in the development effort . |
| 21 | As Jo Grimond he was MP for Orkney and Shetland for thirty-three years and was seen as the last traditional Liberal . |
| 22 | In each instance , the EC was seen as the last hope of halting the developments . |
| 23 | It blasphemed God 's goodness to declare that one day , the seventh , was holier than the other six ( the Christian Sunday was seen as the eighth day , pointing beyond time to eternity ) ; that some food or animals were clean and others unclean ; that some nations were less God 's children than others , or that a natural function , such as menstruation , made women unholy and hence unfit for contact with God . |
| 24 | In a Nottingham mining family the grandfather was named as a second father : ‘ I used to call him ‘ father ’ and me dad , ‘ dad ’ . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It was built as the first main processing plant to support the basic nuclear industry of the country and , of course , it has also processed fuel from Japan and Italy . |
| 26 | PRIME Minister John Major 's ‘ classless society ’ was revealed as a second class sham yesterday — from the school playground to the factory floor . |
| 27 | Miriam was wondering as the first fat drops of rain splashed on the verandah . |
| 28 | The effect was that Craig did not receive 1,476 out of the 3,813 papers on which he was shown as a second preference . |
| 29 | Non-smoking ( never smoking combined with tried but stopped ) was used as a second end point . |
| 30 | Furthermore , staining could not be observed when the solution of purified primary antibody absorbed with PT-gliadin was used as the first layer ( figure not shown ) . |