Example sentences of "was [adv] [vb pp] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Labour leadership was overwhelmingly defeated yesterday as the conference demanded big pension increases . |
| 2 | After Indira Gandhi 's assassination in 1984 , Rajiv was swiftly sworn in as her successor [ see p. 33220 ] and led Congress ( I ) to a massive victory in a general election held at the end of the year [ see pp. 33464-66 ] . |
| 3 | After a while the leaf began to bend , and in some hours the end of the leaf was so bent inwards as to touch the base . |
| 4 | Once , the Everqueen could easily have banished the daemon , but her power was much reduced even as her land was ravaged . |
| 5 | It was also true that the renewed Triple Alliance of the same year was soon buttressed so as to isolate France and Russia still more . |
| 6 | ‘ In fact , no disconnection was made at the fuse end , and although at the other relay end the old wire was disconnected , it was not cut back as it should have been , nor was it secured out of the way of its previous contact . ’ |
| 7 | Moreover , it is likely that , in many tribal societies , this ability of women to bleed and not die was not seen simply as negative . |
| 8 | The RCM was not involved either as Sponsor or as provider of accommodation . |
| 9 | Now it is sometimes argued that the Reform Bill was deliberately framed so as to preclude the threat of a revolution founded on such an alignment , one in which a middle-class bourgeoisie would have provided the leadership and the lower classes the sheer mass , the numbers needed to carry it out ; and shrewdly calculated to concede just so much as was needed to reduce to a manageable scale the gathering political unrest which might have led to just such a convulsion . |
| 10 | The heavy furniture of the lobby was still arranged exactly as it had been in 1950 . |
| 11 | And yet the matter was quickly screened out as Pakistan set out to secure the piffling 138 needed for their second Test victory at Lord 's . |
| 12 | The exclusionary rule was later extended so as to prohibit the court from looking even at reports made by commissioners on which legislation was based : Salkeld v. Johnson ( 1848 ) 2 Exch. 256 , 273 . |
| 13 | The use of ECUs for repayment of intervention borrowings by a member country was also made easier as long as the creditor country ( i.e. the country providing the currency which was needed for foreign exchange support operations ) did not develop an unbalanced composition of reserves . |
| 14 | The intention to run the jack of hearts on the second round was well thought out as it would have allowed declarer to retain control of the trump suit , even if the second trump trick had been lost . |
| 15 | He said the extra half percent was actually er a risk return , of course you know it was n't explained perhaps as well . |
| 16 | Pet screamed , a horrendous scream which was abruptly cut off as her mouth vanished . |
| 17 | To produce the latter the inner coffin was placed on to a width of lead which was then cut so as to be three inches larger all round than the coffin itself ; this was then turned up and tacked to the wood . |
| 18 | He turned on her now , but was almost pushed aside as someone came out of the shop . |
| 19 | But his gaze was rigidly fixed ahead as he steered the little helicopter up the meandering Thames . |
| 20 | It was held that the clause did not protect the owners against liability for negligence : they could be liable either strictly , for failing to supply a cycle fit for its purpose , or in negligence ; it was therefore construed only as covering the strict liability . |
| 21 | Although the Panopticon was never built exactly as he designed it ( a modified version was constructed at Millbank on the Thames and opened , with extremely poor results , in 1917 ) , imprisonment rapidly became the pre-eminent method of punishment . |
| 22 | The work was never made quite as planned , but several aspects of it occur in the ballet he made in Israel many years later , and some in works for Sadler 's Wells in the fifties . |
| 23 | Indeed , as Sutherland and Mackintosh ( 1971 ) have pointed out , Siegels 's training apparatus was specifically arranged so as to ensure that the rats would adopt response strategies of the sort they did . |