Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] as [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , while the universities were recognized as having a national role , it was not the one envisaged for them by the Newbolt Committee . |
| 2 | Certain colonial powers ( notably Britain ) entered into such agreements with their former colonies which were regarded as forming a ‘ complete assignment of all treaties which , upon construction , were susceptible of devolution , … |
| 3 | Based on prior antroduodenal manometry , 24 children were diagnosed as having a neuropathic and six a myopathic form of intestinal pseudo-obstruction . |
| 4 | Conversely , Home Office guidelines were only exceptionally ignored since ‘ They were seen as having a legitimacy stemming from the fact of representing the authoritative interpretation of the law by the elected government of the day ’ ( ibid.:211 ) . |
| 5 | They were more than the part-time special constables in the British tradition , in that they were seen as having a social role in the context of an individual 's responsibility to his or her community . |
| 6 | At one time this requirement was construed broadly , so that words merely precatory were accepted as raising a trust . |
| 7 | These results were later integrated by Chadwick , Kenolty and Whittaker ( 1983 ) with further reflection seismic surveys extending southwards into Dorset , and were interpreted as showing a fundamental decollement descending to about 14 km in the south . |
| 8 | Although the rules do not make this absolutely clear it would be extraordinary if they were interpreted as preventing a party from adducing any oral evidence , even that which had been set down in witness statements served in compliance with the direction , simply because he attempts to adduce additional oral evidence at trial which he should have included in an earlier witness statement . |
| 9 | The results were interpreted as giving a continued endorsement to the efforts of the non-party President Georgios Vassiliou to pursue UN-backed talks with the Turkish Cypriots — something which had been the key issue of the electoral campaigns . |
| 10 | The percentages quoted are therefore proportions only of the women who were classed as having a provoking agent . |
| 11 | They also discovered that more women than men were classified as having a disability , and that the rate of disability and the number of disabilities suffered increased with age . |
| 12 | It should be noted , however , that the group of 27 authorities who had training/development/personnel officers , all of whom were categorized as providing a higher than average amount of training , were varied in size of establishment . |
| 13 | These results were taken as supporting a temporal discrimination hypothesis of the same type that has been used elsewhere to describe short term verbal recency effects ( e.g. Bjork & Whitten , 1974 ) . |
| 14 | It was those who were admitted in the year before they died who were perceived as having a relatively poor quality of life in that year . |
| 15 | The contradictory nature of this relationship is illustrated by the experiences of a community of potters in Japan , who , through the equivalent of the arts and crafts movement , were held as exemplifying a natural , anonymous and traditional form of production . |
| 16 | In a religiously-divided country such as the Netherlands , trade unions had been formed in a period of strong Protestant and Catholic religious revival when a socialist trade union movement was regarded as implying a secular view of society . |
| 17 | He missed just one game that season because of a dose of ‘ flu and was regarded as having a fine future . |
| 18 | She affiliated herself more with the opposing camp of Impressionism — when a female caller at her studio who hoped to have a portrait done told Walker that she was regarded as having a ‘ Burne-Jones-face ’ Walker replied , ‘ what a damn sickly sort of face to have ! ’ 20 However , despite this aversion and the fact that her own women do not resemble the Pre-Raphaelite type , in her attitude towards her women there is much that is similar . |
| 19 | A greatly-respected professional musician was diagnosed as having a poor bump of tune ; a man accorded a large bump of benevolence turned out to be a well known ( and violent ) criminal . |
| 20 | I would expect that the day he was diagnosed as having a hiatus hernia he was not advised to have a large meal followed by a cigar and a large amount of alcohol . |
| 21 | In hospital , he was diagnosed as having a subdural haemorrhage ( internal bleeding affecting the brain ) . |
| 22 | ‘ Then he was diagnosed as having a heart block . ’ |
| 23 | The Civic Democratic Party was reported as favouring a continued federal structure , while the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia argued for a confederation of two sovereign states each of which would be a separate legal entity in international law . |
| 24 | Only 40 per cent of this age group was reported as having a freezer in 1986 , and the majority was therefore less able to store perishable goods . |
| 25 | Plowden was seen as providing a medium-term strategy for economic control , though to function satisfactorily it required an adequate institutional structure . |
| 26 | Too often a job , any job , for a refugee child was seen as bestowing a great favour in return for which sacrifices were expected . |
| 27 | Haughey 's espousal of liberal reforms was seen as a response to the shock result of the November 1990 presidential election [ see p. 37868 ] , in which the victory of Mary Robinson , a woman supported by the Labour Party and the Workers ' Party , was seen as reflecting a major shift in voters ' attitudes and a challenge to the traditional political dominance of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael . |
| 28 | In the early days it was seen as bringing a whirlwind of well-paid high-technology jobs to an area of record unemployment . |
| 29 | The Mountbatten Building in the Grassmarket , which is for sale , was seen as offering a 50 per cent increase in purpose-built teaching space , plus the benefits of a city-centre location . |
| 30 | Giving a consistently high profile to the importance of regular attendance for all pupils was seen as having a spin–off effect on condoned truancy . |