Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drone of the Lancaster aircraft 's four Rolls Royce Merlin engines was heard regularly as Wing Commander Guy Gibson and the men of 617 Squadron practised their low-level bombing techniques . |
| 2 | The lead was given both as composer and as publisher by Byrd 's pupil Morley . |
| 3 | THE ‘ carping and negative ’ attitude of government politicians was attacked yesterday as salmon farmers gave warning of the threats facing a vital industry for the Highlands and Islands . |
| 4 | A woman who died in a fire on Tuesday was named yesterday as Mary Morrison Macleod , 32 , of Bridge Cottages , Newmarket , on the outskirts of Stornoway . |
| 5 | This firm continued to prosper during the more difficult postwar years , and by the time of Samuel 's death in 1829 was operating extensively as owner , charterer ( especially for the East India Company ) , sailmaker , and chandler . |
| 6 | On 27 June Tan Malaka and other leading Communists were set free and Sjahrir was kidnapped just as Sukarno had been the previous August . |
| 7 | Electrogenic ion transport was measured directly as SCC recorded by voltage clamping the tissue at zero potential , as described previously . |
| 8 | A VITAL , hitherto forgotten point was raised yesterday as preparations were made for a controversial public inquiry . |
| 9 | The belt was quite tough and did n't give way at once when Bully pulled at it , so Angela was dragged along as Bully backed , growling , until finally she lost her balance and ended up spreadeagled on her front on the pavement . |
| 10 | The flimsy Geneva settlement , engineered by Eden in 1954 to enable the French to withdraw from Indo-China , was breaking down as Ho Chi Minh had begun his attempt to take over the South with backing of Communist China . |
| 11 | Those tube trains are full of them , ’ he was saying agitatedly as Pooley arrived at the table at which they were having tea . |
| 12 | Staff and pupils were on first name terms , so that Miss Clifton was Cliffy to her face , and Anna Essinger , who had been dubbed Tante Anna in German , was known simply as T A. The children contributed to the maintenance of their school , to the extent of making furniture and cleaning and repairing the building . |
| 13 | The sentence was interrupted abruptly as Hitch fired . |
| 14 | Vice-President Shankar Dayal Sharma was sworn in as India 's ninth president on July 26 following elections held on July 13 . |
| 15 | Inside the house Janine was crying quietly as Sarah spoke . |
| 16 | The centre of Manchester was sealed off as police shepherded thousands of workers away from their city offices . |
| 17 | Hawksmoor , who had already had a great deal of experience as an architect , was brought in as clerk of works and it is quite likely that the design was by both men . |
| 18 | And Gale was involved again as compatriot Ivan Henjak collected his kick ahead to touch down . |
| 19 | ‘ Ma , I do n't — ’ Kevin 's excuse was cut short as Nellie came forward with her children . |
| 20 | An iron band clamped her wrist , her arm was forced backwards as Rourke 's hard body slammed against her , knocking the air from her lungs . |
| 21 | Three years ago , Craig Fields was forced out as director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) after Prabhakar , then deputy director of DARPA 's defence sciences office , made a $4 million investment in Gazelle Microcircuits Inc. , a tiny Silicon Valley semiconductor company that makes high-speed gallium arsenide chips . |
| 22 | The drinks party was evaporating slowly as guests said their goodbyes . |
| 23 | 1967 ; minds were blown ; dance was left behind as beats stretched out into timelessness ; rock acquired a whole new chromatic and spatial vocabulary , as new kinds of instrumentation were added and the studio itself became an instrument ; the first dabblings with stage effects and multi-media experience were made . |
| 24 | Darkness was falling rapidly as Campeanu eased his way past the narrow gap . |
| 25 | The failure to attend to the Palestinian problem was put aside as Israel stood its ground with dignity . |
| 26 | When I was a first year I was put in as ballboy and I did n't know the rules . |
| 27 | ‘ Would the fact that he was put in as priest at Oldfield mean that Marr would have to have been known to Lord Dersingham ? ’ |
| 28 | Barr Thomson Engineering was relaunched yesterday as BTE ( Glenrothes ) , after an 11-week negotiation culminated in an innovative rescue package involving a partnership with a major customer , Tecnomarine Services of Aberdeen , and a consortium of backers from both the public and private sectors . |
| 29 | Through the 1970s , he was tested out as PA to the finance director , director of planning in domestic banking and lending manager in the City 's Bishopsgate branch — and not found wanting . |
| 30 | That 's what this programme is about , and in that time I mean I think , I was thinking actually as Terry was speaking , erm you said that it was not clear that you can judge somebody on a hundred days , and I must say I agree with that , and I think at the moment in the last hundred days we 've been at war and it 's impossible to judge a new Prime Minister , who 's come into office in the right at the beginning of what potentially could have been a very nasty war . |