Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was knitting to cars as one single motif on her Silver Reed but had put the point cams on incorrectly and had one car in the middle and two half cars either side . |
| 2 | The small court at Reading was inundated with spectators as various witnesses gave their accounts . |
| 3 | In an apparent attempt to placate the anti-reform groups in the Congress of People 's Deputies before it opened , Yegor Gaidar , responsible for the main thrust of the economic reforms , was dismissed by Yeltsin as Finance Minister on April 2 but retained the post of Deputy Premier . |
| 4 | The IAEA motion was dismissed by Khuddayir as " unfair " and a prelude to " a new aggression on Iraq " . |
| 5 | The Report of the Franks Committee in 1957 was recognized by Robson as ‘ an important landmark in our constitutional history ’ , largely because it accepted that administrative tribunals are ‘ a valuable and permanent part of the machinery of justice ’ and went much further ‘ than the grudging admission of the advantages possessed by tribunals accorded by the Donoughmore Report ’ . |
| 6 | The Commission did not foresee a problem with Finland 's neutrality which was recognized in effect as non-participation in a military alliance . |
| 7 | Between 1888 and 1900 Aglen served in a number of posts in Peking , Amoy , Canton , and Tientsin ; in 1897 he was appointed to the rank of commissioner ; and shortly after the Boxer rising broke out in 1900 he was posted to Shanghai as officiating inspector-general while Hart was a refugee in the British legation under siege in Peking . |
| 8 | However , in the event Trumble was posted to Crete as commanding officer of Heraklion , but was captured during the invasion in May . |
| 9 | Only Michels among the classical theorists undertook very systematic research , and even work by post-war writers such as Mills was criticized by pluralists as unsystematic and impressionistic . |
| 10 | The Monotype machine on the other hand was regarded by employers as " in their opinion , pre-eminently suited for females " ( See Plates 4 and 6 ) . |
| 11 | Er but but simply the fact it was passing through this area of land that was regarded by locals as being sacred and separating the two communities . |
| 12 | The reduction was regarded by Ministers as modest grounds for hope that the high level of imports is at last beginning to ease and the three-month picture shows a 13.4pc fall in the deficit . |
| 13 | The latest round of Cabinet changes [ for other 1991 changes see pp. 38081 ; 38165 ; 38308 ; 38452 ] was regarded by analysts as strengthening the influence of hard-liners such as Majid and further enhancing the role of members of Saddam Hussein 's family in matters affecting security . |
| 14 | Until quite recently mental illness was regarded in Japan as genetic , incurable , impossible to understand and dangerous . |
| 15 | ‘ Joe ’ Burke was regarded in Australia as very much the English gentleman . |
| 16 | The last great Neo-Platonic philosopher , a woman , Hypatia , was stoned to death as she returned from a lecture at the library — again by ‘ Christians ’ — in A.D. 415 . |
| 17 | A police car was stoned by onlookers as it chased a stolen car which later crashed into a lampost . |
| 18 | Being a total landlubber I was filled with trepidation as I set foot on the deck of the Norway Line 's good ship Jupiter . |
| 19 | But the hands came cunning and swift and raised a harsh green fabric up , until there was darkness over his head and he was paralysed with fear as he was lifted up and began a long and terrible journey . |
| 20 | He was broken with compassion as he watched her crashing like a falling star , pulled by gravity and centripetal forces towards the consummation of the sun and in a moment of weakness he relaxed his will . |
| 21 | Tom opened the sitting-room door and the silence was broken by Sammy as he came bounding out , leaping up at the pair of them barking excitedly . |
| 22 | DEVOTED housekeeper Annie Bowman was crushed to death as she tried to stop a thief stealing her boss 's JCB digger . |
| 23 | Ten months later 18-year-old teaboy Abdul Khalid was riddled with bullets as he sat in his car at Silverbridge in south Armagh . |
| 24 | These addressing modes are a superset of the PDP-11 addressing modes with one exception , the PDP-11 addressing mode auto-decrement deferred was omitted from VAX as it was rarely used . |
| 25 | He was walking beside Mosley as the bystanders pressed in upon them . |
| 26 | Andrew and 49year-old Monica were touring in Canada when Rachel was knifed to death as she walked with Alex and her dog Molly on the common in South-West London . |
| 27 | Running conditions : 20 V/cm for 3 h. [ 3 H ] label was visualized by fluorography as follows . |
| 28 | Ian Baird went for it and missed , but his flight across John Burridge 's line of vision made things awkward for the Hibs goalkeeper who was caught off balance as the ball came through , bounced off his shoulder and into the net . |
| 29 | His parachute was caught by turbulence as he came in to land on a school playing field . |
| 30 | Yousefi , 37 , was caught in London as he tried to cash a cheque at a bank . |