Example sentences of "was [verb] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was intended as a high-performance set which could inherit the reliability associated with previous BR ( SR ) DEMUs , thus beating the older , inherently unreliable diesel-mechanical multiple units hands down . |
| 2 | It was intended as a splendid demonstration of the power and solidarity of the Angevin family , the greatest court ever held in Normandy . |
| 3 | Dexter meant it as a joke but Blanche stared at him for a moment , as if the comment was intended as a serious criticism , before she chuckled softly . |
| 4 | Sotheby 's lecture by Helene Cixous of Paris was intended as a feminist apotheosis but was marred by her shaky reading of Rembrandt 's ‘ Bathsheba ’ in the Louvre . |
| 5 | The script that Allen submitted to the BBC was intended as a single play . |
| 6 | DESIGNED in July 1945 at Tokyo University by Taichiro Ogawa and Ichiro Tani , the Baika ( Plum Blossom ) was intended as a special attack Aircraft for the Imperial Japanese Navy . |
| 7 | The Urban Programme consisted of grants and initiatives under the 1969 Local Government Grants ( Social Need ) Act , which was intended as a flexible instrument to provide supplementary help to local authorities in the fields of housing , education , and health . |
| 8 | Under the 1976 Organic Law promulgated in Portugal , Macao , hitherto a Portuguese Overseas Province , was redefined as a Special Territory under Portuguese administration ; it will revert to Chinese rule in 1999 , the Chinese government having already , in 1988 , established a Macao Special Administrative region . |
| 9 | The existing bridge was erected as a temporary measure to replace the original bridge which was destroyed by floods . |
| 10 | It was erected as a ducal chapel in 1336 by Azzone Visconti who was buried in it just three years later . |
| 11 | opposite the ‘ Old Pack Horse ’ , whilst at the other Chiswick High Road corner — Heathfield Terrace junction — an obelisk was erected as a permanent War Memorial , around which Memorial Services have been held ever since . |
| 12 | FULL employment was reinstated as a central aim of Labour 's economic recovery programme by Mr Kinnock yesterday as he pledged to ‘ mobilise the talents of all the people ’ in an education and training revolution . |
| 13 | In 1988 , the Carrickfergus Gasworks Preservation Society was formed as a charitable trust to renovate the gasworks and establish a gas museum . |
| 14 | In a shadowy corner of the cook tent , Ngo Van Loc crouched beside an upturned packing case that he was using as a makeshift writing-table . |
| 15 | In spite of the fact that the village was designated as a key settlement , there has been a sharp fall in new housing because of a failure to provide the necessary improvement to the sewerage system . |
| 16 | Because of these interests she was designated as a dangerous subversive under the terms of the 1927 Public Safety Act . |
| 17 | The Welsh College of Music and Drama which occupies impressive new buildings in the Castle Grounds at Cathays Park , Cardiff , was designated as a National Institution in 1970 and is now well established . |
| 18 | In the end , the Kitsuka was designated as a special attack weapon , and would have carried a half-ton bomb . |
| 19 | The post was designated as a rotational one to ensure periodic changes in theoretical outlook . |
| 20 | But to be fair , they include special compensation for loss of share options in the parent , Mercury International , when it was floated as a separate company earlier this year . |
| 21 | But Hardman was dismissed as a small-wave specialist and Lynch was condemned as a pleasant and industrious journeyman , while Carroll and Curren had acquired the status of living legends among the surfing fraternity . ] |
| 22 | Dealers have reported some very heavy selling of the nil-paid stock over the last fortnight and yesterday 's rise , with the ordinary shares up 16 at 693p and the rights stock up 16 at 85p , was dismissed as a technical bounce . |
| 23 | Pioneering research a few years ago by American chemists Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Ponns , was dismissed as a false dawn and ‘ con fusion ’ . |
| 24 | THE marriage of Britain 's best known agony aunt , Marjorie Proops , was exposed as a sexless sham last night . |
| 25 | Azef , the leader of its ‘ fighting organization ’ , was exposed as a double agent working for the Okhrana . |
| 26 | The case was heard as a minor offence before a low-level court , the tribunal correctionel in Tours , at which three judges ruled that , although the article exculpated the mayor , the advertisement did smear him , and the newspaper was ordered to pay him Fr10,000 ( £1,000 approx ) . |
| 27 | A common example was an auxiliary verb sequence , such as I would n't have been able to go , which was heard as a single syllabic beat , approximately shown here as I wudnbinabluh go . |
| 28 | He was ill at ease with the gentleman scientists of his day and was treated as a mere technician by many . |
| 29 | Of strategic significance only to the race that put it there , the shell was treated as a grotesque curio , a titanic folly . |
| 30 | When he returned to Danzig Greisser was treated as a conquering hero , and was greeted by cheering crowds at the railway station . |