Example sentences of "was [verb] as [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Attorney-General was joined as a respondent to the application because he had declined to grant his fiat under section 13 of the Coroners Act 1988 , but at the hearing he was released from the proceedings with the consent of all parties . |
| 2 | The CEGB denied that it was intended as a bribe . |
| 3 | The agreement to stop production of chemical weapons , and to eliminate all but 5,000 tonnes of existing stockpiles , was intended as a catalyst for an agreement on a worldwide ban on the development , production , use and possession of chemical weapons currently under negotiation at the UN Conference on Disarmament in Geneva [ see p. 37224 ] , and both sides undertook to destroy all their stocks once such a ban was in force . |
| 4 | Like the earlier book , Style in Fiction was intended as a course book for students , but it was also an attempt to develop a theory of prose style . |
| 5 | The referendum had no legal force , but was intended as a test of popular support for the draft Union Treaty , the question being a summary of its first article . |
| 6 | His performance was intended as a celebration of that renaissance , and also of the prospects for world peace : for in Moscow Comrade Gorbachev and President Reagan were holding a summit meeting which promised to bear fruit in disarmament . |
| 7 | Scientists today believe this strange sequence of structures was intended as a temple to the river god . |
| 8 | It was intended as a mark of possession — passionless , deliberate . |
| 9 | Railway No. 3 was to run for over a mile across the open space known as Mitcham Common and was intended as a link between Mitcham and Croydon , with little expectation of intermediate traffic . |
| 10 | The book was intended as a history of the universe , not of me . |
| 11 | The name was intended as a tribute to Lord Beaverbrook , the politician and newspaper magnate , whose name was synonymous with trust , a quality Beaverbrooks still maintain as one of their principal values , together with their ever present high quality and good service . |
| 12 | And yet it was intended as a re-creation of the music of ancient Greece ; that is , as an evocation of a primitive and pure world . |
| 13 | The death penalty for murders committed in the course or furtherance of theft was intended as a deterrent against the use of physical violence in offences of burglary , housebreaking and robbery . |
| 14 | Traders said yesterday 's drop was intended as a correction to over-reaction by the market . |
| 15 | And his Panopticon design was intended as a model not only for prisons but as suitable for any establishment in which a number of people had to be supervised : establishments , he suggested , such as " … workhouses , manufactories , or mad-houses , or hospitals , or schools " ( Works , IV p 70 ) . |
| 16 | It seems entirely likely that the giving of a mevleviyet was intended as a means of making possible — both in hierarchical terms and in terms of offering an inducement — the appointment of a scholar more highly qualified , and therefore , perhaps , more to be respected , than the normal run of kasabat kadis . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , if it was intended as a distraction , then that must have been the moment when he poisoned his wife . |
| 18 | DURLSTON CASTLE , designed by George Burt 's architect friend Crickmay , was intended as a restaurant . |
| 19 | The Report was intended as a review , giving a complete survey ( according to its prospectus ) of Chemistry and its Allied Sciences ; it was to come out in the first half of the year following that reviewed ; and it would give a faithful and ‘ whenever necessary , a complete digest of each investigation ’ in chemistry , and its applications in pharmacy , arts and manufactures . |
| 20 | At the heart of the 1982 dispute was a so-called pay factor for public services of 4 per cent , which was intended as a marker for pay rises to those working in all public services . |
| 21 | The grammar did not offer total coverage of the language ( it successfully parsed 65% of the corpus it was tested on ) but was intended as a supplement to the results from the Markov analysis of the stenotography . |
| 22 | It was intended as a staff information bulletin , and it may be that electronic mail will reduce the requirement for it . |
| 23 | French Prime Minister Pierre Beregovoy claimed that the moratorium was intended as a gesture towards limiting nuclear proliferation , and he called on other countries to make " balanced reductions " in their nuclear arsenals . |
| 24 | It was intended as a device to enable states with major accumulations of crude oil to exercise the fullest possible degree of control over the industry concerned with its extraction . |
| 25 | Section 3 of the 1855 Bill of Lading Act was intended as an assurance against Grant v. Norway : |
| 26 | He uttered a short sharp bark , which made Rosie jump ; she assumed it was a cough , then realised that it was intended as an expression of amusement . |
| 27 | This was intended as an extension to the debiasing work reported in Groeger and Chapman ( 1990 ) . |
| 28 | This benefit is also derived from the plaintiff at the uncle 's request , if the promise of the annuity was intended as an inducement to the marriage ; and the averment that the plaintiff , relying on the promise , married , is an averment that the promise was one inducement to the marriage . |
| 29 | They enlisted the young Joan at art school , but he did not do well there , and in 1910 he was enrolled as a trainee at a Barcelona haberdashers . |
| 30 | He was enrolled as a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1871 , and served as president of the Odontochirurgical Society of Scotland 1881–3 . |