Example sentences of "was [vb pp] as [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hall complex , to the right of the entrance to the castle , and built by Roger Bigod III , was intended as accommodation for his large household and for guests . |
| 2 | The coal torpedoes had a powder charge inside a hollow cast iron block that was disguised as coal with tar and coal dust . |
| 3 | As soon as Gorbachev was reinstated as President on Aug. 21 , he was compelled by the increase in Yeltsin 's political standing and the fact that most state bodies were at least partially compromised in the coup attempt to acknowledge the need for a new state structure ; the majority of the republics proclaimed independence from the Soviet Union , and fundamental reforms began of the government and the State Security Committee ( KGB ) . |
| 4 | Scientific applications and various developments to production planning systems were added and the Computer Services Division was formed as part of the Finance Directorate . |
| 5 | Carlos António Fernandes was dismissed as Minister of Transport and Communications on May 5 , 1990 , along with the Secretary of State for Town Planning , Housing and Water , reportedly for " sluggishness and non-implementation of directives " . |
| 6 | Alexandre Nunes Correia , Minister of the Civil Service and Labour since March 9 ( and hitherto Public Health Minister ) , was on June 8 , 1990 , dismissed for reasons which were not specified , and on July 31 Maj. José Pereira was dismissed as Minister of National Security and Public Order , a post he had held since 1985 . |
| 7 | In January 1991 Jacinto Jouvin and Jorge Gallardo , resigned as Minister of Industry , Commerce and Integration and of Finance and Public Credit respectively , to be replaced by Pablo Better and Juan Falconi [ see pp. 37958 ] ; on March 12 Diego Tamariz was dismissed as Minister of Energy and Mines , and replaced by Donald Castillo [ see pp. 38093-94 ] . |
| 8 | On Sept. 18 Isidore Mvouba was dismissed as Minister of Trade and Commerce after he failed to attend the first meeting of the Cabinet , attending instead a meeting of his own party , the ( formerly ruling ) Congolese Labour Party ( PCT ) . |
| 9 | He was dismissed as Minister of Justice by Banda in 1964 . |
| 10 | On Oct. 14 James Njiru was dismissed as Minister for Culture and Social Services ; Moi said that his dismissal was necessitated by a local party leadership dispute . |
| 11 | Wolfgang Schwanitz was dismissed as Head of the Office of National Security . |
| 12 | Vladimir Meciar was dismissed as head of the Slovak government on April 23 by the Presidium of the Slovak National Council ( parliament ) . |
| 13 | A critic of that decision , Mohammad Yunus Saleem , was dismissed as Governor of Bihar on Feb. 13 . |
| 14 | 6–2- " That whilst under the Old Testament Instrumental Music was prescribed as part of the Temple service it was removed along with the other peculiarities of that service , under the new and more spiritual dispensation from which ritualistic and sensuous forms of worship were excluded ; that no Instrumental Music was prescribed or practised by Christ and his Apostles … |
| 15 | His occupation was given as manufacturer of industrial components . |
| 16 | He was helping with the ‘ Vic-Wells ’ charity costume ball in January 1947 and Adieu was given as part of the entertainment there . |
| 17 | Forty years later , just such a hawk-moth was discovered and to commemorate Darwin 's prescience , it was given as part of its scientific name the words forma predicta . |
| 18 | The official cause of death was given as suicide by hanging and internal haemorrhaging respectively . |
| 19 | At a meeting of the Slovak government on Oct. 13 , certain presidential powers were transferred to Meciar ; the Prime Minister was recognized as C.-in-C. of the armed forces until a president was elected , would represent the Slovak Republic externally , and would have certain judicial powers , according to Bratislava radio . |
| 20 | His dominance was all the greater after the death of the earl of Warwick in August 1315 , and at the Lincoln parliament in January 1316 he was recognized as head of the council . |
| 21 | The controversial clause , included by a vote of 220 to 208 , was regarded as evidence of greater sympathy within the 102nd Congress than its predecessor towards the pro-choice lobby . |
| 22 | Denktash , it was stressed , was received as leader of the Turkish Cypriot community in Cyprus , and not as " President " of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus . |
| 23 | A legend explains his elephant 's head as follows : when his mother , Parvati , was bathing , Ganesa was assigned as guardian for her privacy . |
| 24 | A comparative newcomer , David Sillito , was assigned as navigator on a patrol which was sent to destroy the track near Sidi Barani . |
| 25 | It was developed as part of Project Athena at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , and goes under the unexciting name of X Window . |
| 26 | The Core Language Engine was developed as part of a research programme in natural-language processing supported by the UK Department of Trade and Industry under an Alvey grant and by members of the NATTIE consortium ( British Aerospace , British Telecom , Hewlett Packard , ICL , Olivetti , Philips , Shell Research , and SRI ) . |
| 27 | In 1992/93 we planted more than half a million trees and shrubs in landscaping our stores and at Watchmoor Park in Camberley a 20 acre nature reserve was developed as part of the store development . |
| 28 | The price of BZW 's ill-considered worldwide expansion in equities has already been paid by Howard Coates : in February he was sacked as head of the firm 's equities division , though he remains with BZW . |
| 29 | These included Donald Kalpokas , the VP 's general secretary , who was sacked as Minister of Education and Foreign Affairs , together with Home Affairs Minister Iolu Abbil , Lands Minister William Mahit and Trade Minister Harold Qualao . |
| 30 | Mr Corden 's departure comes less than a month after Frank Gray was sacked as manager of the Third Division 's bottom club . |