Example sentences of "[was/were] not [verb] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Franco had been grateful to receive Italian planes in July and August , but he was not happy with the massive despatch of foot-soldiers , partly because Mussolini had the temerity to send more than had been agreed , and partly because the Duce insisted that they were not deployed as part of the Spanish Army , but formed an independent corps , with their own officers . |
| 2 | But these were accidental acquisitions ; they were not collected as part of a coherent plan ’ . |
| 3 | But they were not living as husband and wife . |
| 4 | The endoscopic findings of ‘ erythema ’ , ‘ oedema ’ , ‘ friability ’ , ‘ hyperaemia ’ , ‘ dilated cardia ’ , ‘ endoscopic reflux ’ , which agree with Savary and Tytgat , were not considered as evidence of oesophagitis , because they are too subjective to be evaluated and were not reproducible from one observer to another . |
| 5 | The more obvious uses to which the coin was put , the contexts in which they are found and their distribution has led to a general belief that they were not used as currency in commercial transactions ; rather , they were valued as bullion . |
| 6 | ‘ It is convenient to consider first whether the judge was correct in holding that the husband , whatever else he may have done , was not acting as agent for the bank for the purposes of procuring the signature of the wife to the charge . |
| 7 | The Portuguese Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs , José Durao Barroso , chaired the meetings , but stressed that he was not acting as mediator , a role still officially held by Zaïre 's President Mobutu . |
| 8 | It was not intended as music fur dancing . |
| 9 | The Bank would require £5 to be written off at the time of sale and if the £5 was not injected as cash on day one , would even disallow the sale treatment . |
| 10 | In those studies with lower prevalences it must be presumed that dampness was not regarded as incontinence ( although the words ‘ damp pants ’ were included in the questions asked in the MORI poll ) . |
| 11 | Imprisonment was not regarded as punishment . |
| 12 | Kenneth Orbinson , an Ulster Television cameraman , gave evidence at the trial of those arrested on 5 October : he said that he had been sprayed while filming from the window of a flat in Duke Street ; but his film was not admitted as evidence . |
| 13 | Their plan was turned down because it was not classed as infill development and the site lay outside the built-up area of the village . |