Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] as [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not that they were there as a punishment , just that the cellar was their living room ( a common arrangement in the back-to-backs of Bradford where most Asian families live ) . |
| 2 | If one regards the benefit in this light I can not see that the cost incurred in , or in connection with , the provision of the benefit , can properly be held to include the cost incurred , in any event , in providing education to fee paying pupils at the school who were there as a right in return for the fees paid in respect of them . |
| 3 | Well I never took that er er as a stance erm bearing in mind that er we were there as the bulwarks to defend the interests of the membership in general . |
| 4 | It was presumably as a result of this that Palmerston wrote to the Treasury in May 1836 , explaining his views on the new accommodation . |
| 5 | Roth 's influence was less as a teacher , there having been during his lifetime much less scope than later for Jewish studies in Britain , than as a writer and lecturer . |
| 6 | It was perhaps as a member of Gloucester 's retinue that he fought at Bannockburn in June 1314 , where Gloucester was killed ; and his performance in the battle , for which he was later rewarded with land worth 100 marks a year , may have brought him to Edward II 's notice . |
| 7 | Thereafter his war service was entirely as a staff officer . |
| 8 | DESPITE RECENTLY making a rather fine album , confounding widespread suspicions that frontman Jack Dangers ' forte was only as a producer ( Consolidated , Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy ) , Meat Beat Manifesto live are a dull experience . |
| 9 | In fact , it was only as a consequence of this earlier work of literary , linguistic , and historical categorizing that it became possible for a sense of national and vernacular " ancestry " to challenge the cultural and educational rule of the classical languages and literatures . |
| 10 | When I first mentioned this , it was only as an idea . |
| 11 | His progress was predictably rapid , and after eighteen months he made the move to television , even though it was only as an assistant on Pets and Vets , an animal welfare show . |
| 12 | His liability was thus as a principal in the second degree . |
| 13 | This was largely as a result of Eliot 's own initiative ; and what we knew of it was derived from the works of Jacques Maritain , which were largely the source , I suspect , of Eliot 's own knowledge . |
| 14 | This was largely as a consequence of his undoubted materialism , according to which all that exists is matter in motion . |
| 15 | But it was just as an excuse to get her latest lover into the house . |
| 16 | Indeed , it was directly as a consequence of this that the White Paper was so general in approach and so nebulous on crucial issues . |
| 17 | At one stage the Guernsey was used as a draught animal and later for beef , but its prime role was always as a milk producer . |
| 18 | If it ever did , it was always as a part which was apart , separate , a ‘ precious stone set in the silver sea . |
| 19 | But it was always as a unity that Ramsay approached a composition . |
| 20 | The air was still as a church in there , the rainy light playing through the leaded windows with their view across the parkland and the lake . |
| 21 | The war was apparently in the way , but that was more as a result of misunderstanding than anything else . |
| 22 | It was probably as a result of Hall 's ‘ conclave ’ that , ‘ long before the programme came out ’ , he retired from active engagements to design suitable elements for a public building . |
| 23 | It was probably as a result of this that the Anglo-Norman chronicler William of Malmesbury was impelled to describe his manners as being ‘ thus polished from the rust of Scottish barbarity ’ . |
| 24 | It was probably as a result of Arab contacts that pearl fisheries were opened up on the coast of East Africa . |
| 25 | His own background was also as a joiner , but from the late 1740s onwards he developed a quite extensive professional practice in both Shropshire and the neighbouring counties . |
| 26 | This was partly as a safety measure , but also as a result of a campaign by local councillors , who have been told about several near misses at Ruswarp . |
| 27 | This was partly as a result of inherited policies , but was also because of the council 's desire ‘ to be seen to be doing something ’ to support its traditional political base of the skilled manual working class . |
| 28 | At the G7 Heads of Government meeting , my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister obtained the personal commitment of the round before the end of the year and it was partly as a result of that that the valuable meeting took place between President Bush and Mr. Lubbers , on behalf of the Community , which I hope has moved matters towards a conclusion . |
| 29 | The court had to decide whether the damage was solely as a result of the negligence of the plaintiff 's husband or whether the negligence of his workmate was also a factor . |
| 30 | Dorothy explained that they had n't given her any money ; she was here as a reporter for a journal whose name they knew ; her membership of the feminist abortion campaign to which PopCon had just made a large grant was irrelevant to the present discussion ; she was just doing her job . |