Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] as a [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 | It was presumably as a result of this that Palmerston wrote to the Treasury in May 1836 , explaining his views on the new accommodation . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Thereafter his war service was entirely as a staff officer . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | His liability was thus as a principal in the second degree . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This was largely as a consequence of his undoubted materialism , according to which all that exists is matter in motion . |
| 12 | Indeed , it was directly as a consequence of this that the White Paper was so general in approach and so nebulous on crucial issues . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If it ever did , it was always as a part which was apart , separate , a ‘ precious stone set in the silver sea . |
| 15 | But it was always as a unity that Ramsay approached a composition . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The war was apparently in the way , but that was more as a result of misunderstanding than anything else . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | It was probably as a result of Arab contacts that pearl fisheries were opened up on the coast of East Africa . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ I was here as a 10-year-old when we had a record crowd of 75,000 for the Cup tie against Aston Villa in 1938 , ’ he said . |
| 28 | When ‘ English ’ first came on the scene in the nineteenth century , it was precisely as a form of Cultural Studies , involving not only language and literature , but history , geography , philosophy , and so on , requiring the first professors of the subject to be polymaths . |
| 29 | Now it seemed to me that one thousand six hundred was initially as a result of survey work or shall we say investigation into the housing waiting list carried out by the York housing department , and I have to say that I have a certain respect for the York housing department , and they have a certain reasonable and good reputation within the region as a housing department , and so there seems to me that there is a gr a there is a potential to underestimate er the the affordable requirement that 's been put to you , another point erm I 'd just like perhaps to seek a little clarification from Mr Curtis , was was unfortunately I was looking something else up or my attention was diverted when he gave some figures for Ryedale and Selby , I think he said , and I 'll happily stand corrected on this , that if you take away the York requirement figure from his ten thousand four hundred for Greater York , then the remainder he would apportion to Selby and Ryedale , so that Selby got four thousand two hundred , sorry , so that Ryedale got four thousand two hundred and Selby got one thousand seven hundred , erm that does n't add up to ten thousand four hundred and I I I in total , and I I wondered where the rest was coming from , if I the point correctly . |
| 30 | Society was there as a backdrop to drama , melodrama if you like , and that drama could only be presented in terms of individual destinies which had to be resolved satisfactorily in the film itself . |