Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [was/were] [verb] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor will we forget those hon. Members who were regarded as the darlings of the rioters . |
| 2 | It was women who were defined as the human agents of infection , threatening national health and security and challenging the social order by their active and autonomous sexuality . |
| 3 | ‘ The Dallae ’ referred to the identical Dallas twins who were consulted as the oracles of the Decoding Room School . |
| 4 | Mosley 's turn to political anti-semitism was signalled by his Albert Hall meeting in October 1934 when he attacked both the ‘ big ’ Jews who were seen as a threat to the nation 's economy and the ‘ little ’ Jews who allegedly swamped the cultural identity of localities where they settled . |
| 5 | Perhaps not surprisingly for some Americans , as Heath reported , it was not the Vietminh who were seen as the enemy but the French . |
| 6 | In yet another demonstration of Yugoslavia 's fragmentation along ethnic lines , hostility between Serbs and Moslems ( who were recognized as a distinct nationality in Yugoslavia ) led to clashes in Bosnia-Hercegovina 's southern town of Foca , and across the nearby border in Serbia 's Novi Pazar district ( part of the historic Sanjak region ) . |
| 7 | The king , who was disguised as a servant to escape Cromwell 's army , was accompanied by his personal chaplain , Michael Hudson , rector of Uffington near Stamford , and Mr. Ashburnham . |
| 8 | Like Viola in ‘ Twelfth Night ’ , Rosalind was played by a boy , who was pretending to be a girl , who was disguised as a boy … |
| 9 | The Kazakhstan President , Nursultan Nazarbayev , was also initially unenthusiastic over the exclusively Slav composition of the Commonwealth , and at a meeting on Dec. 9 between Nazarbayev , Gorbachev and Yeltsin , who was acting as the envoy of the Commonwealth , he said that Gorbachev was still needed as a central force . |
| 10 | In a further letter , dated 28 June 1323 , the pope reminded the bishop of Aire , who was acting as an intermediary between Lestrange and Jeanne of Artois , that Gaston II was very young , and was surrounded by young men who were easily swayed to unbridled and ill-considered actions . |
| 11 | Neither named Mr Kelbie but concerned a man of similar name who was listed as an possible health risk , the likely carrier of HIV and hepatitis B. |
| 12 | The talks will re-open in Geneva next week , under Lord Owen who was confirmed as the new EC peace envoy . |
| 13 | The third minister was the Reverend P E Donovan who was born as a Roman Catholic in 1861 in Skibbereen . |
| 14 | Now is there anybody here who was born as an animal ? |
| 15 | Next , the tenor , who was engaged as a stop-gap , is a church singer from Lodi who has never before acted on such a big stage , who has only taken the part of the primo tenore a couple of times , and who moreover was only engaged a week before the performance . |
| 16 | The report was prepared by Benjamin Alexander , a former senior US government official and a former university president who was trained as a chemist . |
| 17 | This image of being between worlds — suspended between earth and sky — is apt for Cocteau , who was trained as an acrobat and whose imagination was fabulous and other-worldly . |
| 18 | Forecasting his impending departure , Burns , who was appointed as a consultant in April of last year , said on Radio Sheffield that if he was dismissed he would be seeing his solicitor . |
| 19 | Tapie was replaced by François Loncle , who was appointed as a Secretary of State attached to the Minister for National Education and Culture , Jack Lang . |
| 20 | This is why and one of the the real problems with this is it 's not that I 'm criticising , it 's just that if in fact you 've got somebody who was appointed as a treasurer , you can in fact get more information out of it , instead of having to guess what we got from where and how it came in . |
| 21 | Then suddenly , the man on his other side , who was dressed as a hippy and had very long hair , said ‘ How boring ! ’ |
| 22 | There was a woman in hot-pants who won , I ca n't think why , and a man came second who was dressed as a skeleton who climbed out of a coffin and sang . |
| 23 | She had told Great-gran and now she stood looking down on this eighty-two year old woman who was dressed as a woman of forty might have been , in a pale blue cotton dress , square-necked , which showed surprisingly firm flesh for one her age , short-sleeved , which in this case exposed her real age by the sagging flesh of the underarm . |
| 24 | Late in 1743 a messenger was sent to alert James in Rome , and at dawn on 9 January 1744 Charles left the Palazzo Muti in Rome with his brother Henry , who was to serve as a decoy , on the pretence of a hunting trip , but made off to the north , leaving Henry to send off to Rome presents of wild geese supposedly from Charles . |
| 25 | At yesterday 's investiture he joined the newly-knighted television presenter Sir David Frost , the sports commentator David Coleman , also an OBE , and the Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies , who was invested as an MBE . |
| 26 | Emec , who was regarded as a conservative , had spoken out publicly against religious fundamentalism and had accused Syria of being responsible for the rising wave of terrorism . |
| 27 | Some gods , while keeping their usual forms , were also thought to be manifest in a living sacred animal , who was regarded as the Ba or power of god and was a cult image , herald and intermediary . |
| 28 | Gen. Chaovalit Yongchaiyut , who was regarded as the principal political rival of the Prime Minister , Maj.-Gen. |
| 29 | Prof Donaldson , who was regarded as the doyen of Scottish historians , was the author of a wide variety of important historical studies , many relating to the Reformation period . |
| 30 | Comparisons with Awful Amy , who yawned throughout her father Jimmy 's victory speech and who was regarded as an electoral liability four years later when he was thrown out of the White House , will be inevitable . |