Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The moves were widely seen as part of an attempt to end the 15-year civil war by meeting conditions demanded by the opposition UNITA rebels . |
| 2 | As charges against the profits of manors these payments were naturally classed as income from land . |
| 3 | Franco had been grateful to receive Italian planes in July and August , but he was not happy with the massive despatch of foot-soldiers , partly because Mussolini had the temerity to send more than had been agreed , and partly because the Duce insisted that they were not deployed as part of the Spanish Army , but formed an independent corps , with their own officers . |
| 4 | But these were accidental acquisitions ; they were not collected as part of a coherent plan ’ . |
| 5 | But they were not living as husband and wife . |
| 6 | The endoscopic findings of ‘ erythema ’ , ‘ oedema ’ , ‘ friability ’ , ‘ hyperaemia ’ , ‘ dilated cardia ’ , ‘ endoscopic reflux ’ , which agree with Savary and Tytgat , were not considered as evidence of oesophagitis , because they are too subjective to be evaluated and were not reproducible from one observer to another . |
| 7 | The more obvious uses to which the coin was put , the contexts in which they are found and their distribution has led to a general belief that they were not used as currency in commercial transactions ; rather , they were valued as bullion . |
| 8 | Yesterday , police confirmed that , in addition to three fires they were already treating as arson , a fourth fire at a holiday home in Pennal , Meirionnydd , was being treated as suspicious . |
| 9 | Below ground but paid on a daily rate , that is to say , at so much per stem , the list of jobs below , were still regarded as tutwork . |
| 10 | In January 1981 district planning authorities became responsible for determining all planning applications which were formerly classified as county matters under the Local Government Act 1972 . |
| 11 | The activation of SMA , cerebellum and possibly of sensory-motor areas suggests that these structures were automatically engaged as part of a more general neuronal network devoted to language planning and execution . |
| 12 | I have explored some of the basic issues related to modular courses in two previous reports ( Squires 1979 , 1986 ) but academics were also asked as part of this study about the advantages and disadvantages of modularizing degree courses in their subject . |
| 13 | From the 1760s , moreover , some of the British secretaries of embassy in Paris and Madrid were also accredited as minister plenipotentiary : they could thus carry on the business of the mission quite effectively in the absence of its head . |
| 14 | These were of the continuous burning vertical " type which were also known as Shaft Kilns . |
| 15 | In Victorian times baked potato sellers were a familiar sight in most towns and cities throughout Britain , particularly during the winter months , when not only were potatoes bought for eating , they were also bought as hand warmers . |
| 16 | Meadow areas were also used as pasturage ‘ when the hay crop had been removed . |
| 17 | These oolites were probably deposited as part of the coastal sand-barrier complex as it prograded basinwards , before becoming stabilised at the edge of the platform . |
| 18 | They found themselves sharing stages with other guitar bands like The June Brides , Big Flame , and Age of Chance ; outfits who were later viewed as part of a new scene with The Wedding Present . |
| 19 | Emphasis in the denudation chronology of southeast England centred upon drainage evolution and upon erosion surfaces which were later described as planation surfaces ; relied upon interpretations based upon morphological evidence and information from fragmentary deposits ; and produced a model which involved early Tertiary planation , mid Tertiary uplift , late Tertiary planation , early Quaternary planation by a Calabrian shoreline and subsequent valley development during Quaternary sea levels at successively lower altitudes . |
| 20 | Passengers were later used as part of Saddam 's ‘ human shield ’ . |
| 21 | Relativity and , more importantly , quantum mechanics , were not seen on the whole as a challenge to the idea of the certainty of physics ; on the contrary , they were often presented as proof of the exciting inroads physics was making . |
| 22 | BELOW Stone walls were often used as field boundaries , but when they are no longer maintained and collapse , they can quickly become overgrown with vegetation and hidden from view . |
| 23 | Some were convincingly disguised as country houses , with entrance gates and spreading lawns , such as the Black Horse , Northfield , Birmingham or the Hare and Hounds , Kingstanding Road , Perry Barr . |
| 24 | Oranges were first introduced into Europe by the Arabs and were originally seen as status symbols . |
| 25 | The resignations in February 1990 of Mesut Yilmaz , the Foreign Minister [ see p. 37263 ] , and on March 28 of Ekrem Pakdemirli , the Finance Minister , were reportedly regarded as evidence of the growing alienation of the liberal faction within the ANAP and of a more determined hold within the party of a " Holy Alliance " of Islamic fundamentalists and right-wing nationalists [ see also p. 36564 ] . |
| 26 | Other highly critical reports were subsequently published following inquiries into conditions at what were then known as subnormality hospitals . |
| 27 | The recombinant and parental pLSO vectors were then used as source DNA in an in vitro kinase assay . |
| 28 | As all areas were initially classified as class I and II , the EPA left it to the states to redesignate some class II areas as class III , or even to upgrade such areas to class I ( Stern , 1977 ) . |
| 29 | The campus buildings are based around five squares raised up on concrete stilts which were officially known as podia . |
| 30 | These six-sided bricks , each facet displaying part of a printed map , when correctly positioned display six maps by W. and A. K. Johnston , including England , Scotland , Europe and the World , and were neatly boxed as part of the original product . |