Example sentences of "was set [adv] as an " in BNC.

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1 Connaught was set up as an investment vehicle after the 1987 crash .
2 His host of many a good evening , Mr. Harden , at Brathay Hall , was set up as an example of one who did not plant enough trees .
3 In 1990 a central government agency was set up as an instrument of denationalization of state enterprises , and a statute was passed regulating the issue of securities to the public and setting up a new stock exchange .
4 Yet it was accordingly — to quote Cole again — that the producers ' co-operative was set up as an industrial , or perhaps more exactly , as a proto-industrial co-operative .
5 In 1873 a new lime works was established at Halling followed in 1878 by a cement works known as Halling Manor Lime and Cement Works which was set up as an addition to those already operated by Hilton , Anderson and Company at Upnor and Faversham .
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