Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ironically , he was to be hanged for broadcasts most of which were known at once as comically improbable in their boasts of German victory . |
| 2 | They had also survived what was referred to locally as the ‘ Old Economic Policy ’ , or War Communism , which was universally disliked , even by the poorest . |
| 3 | In the course of the trial Hayman was referred to only as ‘ a senior civil servant ’ , but his name was leaked by the police , surfacing in Private Eye . |
| 4 | All subservient reaction was forgotten at once as Nessie yielded to more primitive instincts and rushed to the car to see her youngest son . |
| 5 | A great time was had by all as you can read in ‘ David 's Diary ’ . |
| 6 | English keyboard music had a tradition at least as old , was produced at least as copiously , and was later to influence through Sweelinck the German organ school from Samuel Scheidt onward . |
| 7 | She was grabbed from behind as she walked along a footpath near Monks Way in Milton Keynes . |
| 8 | She was grabbed from behind as she walked along a footpath near Monks Way in Milton Keynes . |
| 9 | The 11 year old was grabbed from behind as she walked to school along this path in Milton Keynes . |
| 10 | This uninterrupted period of rule was ended abruptly on Feb. 3 , 1989 , by a coup led by Gen. Andrés Rodríguez , who was sworn in immediately as interim President [ see p. 36458 ] . |