Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [adv] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To detect contamination occurring during preparation of samples , negative control samples containing only water were treated exactly as the tissue samples and examined by polymerase chain reaction techniques . |
| 2 | In Africa and Asia most LDCs were former European colonial possessions and as such were considered primarily as a source of raw materials and food . |
| 3 | The doors were flung open as the occupants climbed out , one of them dragging the girl behind him . |
| 4 | Closely packed terraces of Victorian houses were spread outwards as the population grew . |
| 5 | Existing traction resources were trimmed severely as the new , more efficient types entered service . |
| 6 | And conditions were still at just about the same , but it had been an old hotel , so all the rooms at the top were left just as the bedrooms would have been , so you went up and down steps , and along corridors . |
| 7 | The fee of 9d showed that Halling possessed a church and was designated so as the fee for a chapel was 6d . |
| 8 | In 1689 , Presbyterianism was accepted finally as the Faith of the Scottish Kirk and interference by the monarch came to an end . |
| 9 | Perhaps above all , the closeness of the relationship between husband and wife is often valued more for itself than in the days when marriage was seen mainly as the road to Procreation or when economic and family convenience dictated the union . |
| 10 | This was made easier as the lake was completely encircled by a road , with a wide pathway down one side of the lake , and we often collected several hundred in one circuit . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , no one could claim that it was a united Cabinet and this was made worse as the everyday issues of government started to go wrong . |
| 12 | THE first strike for 18 years among Germany 's 2.3m public sector employees was threatened yesterday as the government rejected a 5.4 p.c. pay rise recommended by arbitrators , writes Robin Gedye . |
| 13 | Dust was washed away as the rain continued to pelt down . |
| 14 | He was born almost as the events of the movie were taking place . |
| 15 | The original Model X ( NR49V ) was known also as the Cirrus Derby Racer and Lowell Bayles flew it into second Place in the 1930 All-America Derby . |
| 16 | When he first appeared he was known briefly as The Broken , referring to his christian name , and to the way he looked so grave , even grief-stricken sometimes in an odd way . |
| 17 | " Antiquity " for philological purposes was conceived primarily as the two ancient languages and the literature written in them ; and its " study " was , generally speaking , the province of learned individuals concerned , above all , with the restoration and exegesis of the ancient texts . |
| 18 | In what was described locally as the worst social unrest since the US military invasion of December 1989 [ see pp. 37112-13 ] , demonstrators clashed with heavily armed police on May 5-11 in the Caribbean coastal city of Colón . |
| 19 | This process was initiated just as the economic crisis began to make itself felt in Spain . |