Example sentences of "he was [verb] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was regarded as a ‘ big-head ’ , he played truant , got into trouble for telling a lie , and was lectured by the headmaster in front of the whole school because of the complaints there had been about him . |
| 2 | I think he was regarded as a bit of a failure in Ukrainian circles because I did n't speak the language or dance . ’ |
| 3 | He was regarded as a traitor . |
| 4 | Durham was a regular attender at Mr Kendal 's church and he was regarded as a strong reliable man whose word could be trusted . |
| 5 | He was regarded as a ‘ pretender ’ , imposed on the Jewish nation by the Romans . |
| 6 | He badgered the State Department in an attempt to gain recognition but he was regarded as a tiresome person of no real importance by the bureaucrats in the Roosevelt administration . |
| 7 | In the House of Lords , as in the House of Commons , he was regarded as a leading authority on patent and trade-mark law . |
| 8 | He was regarded as a popular rival of , and possible replacement for , the Prime Minister and current ANAP leader , Yildirim Akbulut . |
| 9 | Liu Huaqing , a 76-year-old general and the new vice-chair of the CMC , was elected to represent the military , as the sole military member of the standing committee ; he was regarded as a political neutral , and was described by the Far Eastern Economic Review of Oct. 29 as a " no-nonsense professional " who would push for depoliticization and modernization of the military . |
| 10 | he was regarded as a very very smart man |
| 11 | Although early in his career he was regarded as a protege of Forbes he was largely uninfluenced by the so-called ‘ new realism ’ of the Newlyn school … |
| 12 | Surely there was an austere pride in the words of Thoreau when he wrote that he was regarded as the least important man in his village , and there is no doubt in my mind that he must have savoured the aroma of that rare emotion . |
| 13 | He was regarded as the patron of herdsmen and their flocks , and , as the father of ROMULUS AND REMUS , was the honorary patron of Rome . |
| 14 | He was regarded as the professional equivalent of Fred Perry but , as a professional , was never allowed to play for his country . |
| 15 | He was regarded as the architect of the PLO 's security and counterintelligence apparatus and was frequently assumed to have presided over the creation of the Black September organization , which was active from 1971-73 and whose actions included the attack at the Munich Olympic Games in 1972 . |
| 16 | He was regarded as the classic book lover . |
| 17 | Fans loved his skill , he was regarded as the wizard of dribble . |
| 18 | He was amused to discover that , despite two years in the merchant navy , he was regarded as an unspoiled youth by those who , like Minton , resented the de-naturalising effect of privilege and the public school system . |
| 19 | He was regarded as an independent , but increasingly he became Aung San 's adviser , supplying the inside knowledge of British forms of government and administration which Bogyoke lacked . |
| 20 | One of the parliamentary commissioners who escorted the king to Holdenby , he was regarded as an enemy by the army council . |
| 21 | The outbreak of war in 1914 meant that he was regarded as an alien in Britain , though he was soon allowed to move to Rome , where he joined the senate . |
| 22 | ‘ But that is what he did , and since he was garbed as a traveller , in a plain dark cloak with a pack on his back , no one thought very much about it . |
| 23 | Failing to achieve this , he was licensed as a dissenting preacher in January 1754 , had a meeting-house built for him at Warburton in Cheshire , and on 9 November 1754 was ordained as an Independent minister . |
| 24 | He was consulted as an oracle on all occasions , however inappropriate , and this was something which Warnie found insufferably annoying . |
| 25 | Even though he had attempted to make a propagandist contribution to the British war effort in 1915–17 , he was slandered as a traitor . |
| 26 | In August 1536 he was condemned as a heretic , publicly stripped of the vestments of priesthood , and handed over to the secular authorities . |
| 27 | He was recognised as a ‘ New Star ’ as far back as 1960 , in the days when the Melody Maker had a jazz orientation and featured an annual Jazz Poll . |
| 28 | He was recognised as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1955 . |
| 29 | He acquired his interventionist leaning at Harold Wilson 's Industrial Reorganisation Corporation , where he was recognised as an up-and-coming young manager by Lord Kearton , the charismatic chairman of Courtaulds . |
| 30 | He was recognised as an excellent judge of Clydesdales and within ten years his horses were winning the breed 's major honours . |