Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The couple were listed simply as Extract 41 — the 41st wedding to take place in registrar Molly Croll 's district this year . |
| 2 | A number of thick pillars , shrouded in a miasmic fuzz of mould , were placed around as roof supports while , in the centre of the chamber , was a circle of more squared-off pillars , as if someone had decided to use a megalithic circle as a set of buttresses . |
| 3 | Some examples of such arrangements were given above as illustrations of the way in which governmental functions may be performed by non-governmental bodies . |
| 4 | The company also made records for the ‘ World-echo ’ and ‘ Siemens ’ labels , and they were given away as Christmas presents in giant Christmas crackers made by Mead & Fields Ltd . |
| 5 | Trade links were opening up as Russia could no longer trade with Germany in war time . |
| 6 | In this analysis hospitals 1 and 2 were the county 's main consultant units , all the other consultant units were grouped together as hospital 3 , and all the general practitioner units were grouped together . |
| 7 | According to Judge Ovidiu Zarnescu , president of the Central Electoral Bureau , at the start of the campaign 5,716 candidates were nominated either as independents or by one of the 73 political parties for the 387 elective National Assembly seats and 1,584 candidates were nominated for the 119 Senate seats . |
| 8 | The first of several , annual Parliamentary ladies ' golf matches , between lady relations of Members of the Houses of Lords and Commons , were reported on as Henley had at least two ladies who were eligible to play — Mrs. Kate Fleming , wife of the Club President and Henley 's M.P. , Mr. Valentine Fleming , and Mrs. Cecil Norton . |
| 9 | Images of London 's wartime blitz were conjured up as children taught their parents how to use gas masks . |
| 10 | Female sexuality and reproduction were seen particularly as representative of the mortality that separates us from the eternal and binds us to temporal corruptible life . |
| 11 | Whatever social and political abuses Herod might perpetrate , these were seen merely as symptoms of a much more profound dilemma — the dilemma of a people who had been abandoned by their God . |
| 12 | TWO MEN who died when their training aircraft crashed in a field in Ayrshire on Thursday were named yesterday as investigations into the cause of the accident continued . |
| 13 | Two divers who died searching a wrecked ship off Swanage , Dorset , were named yesterday as Ivan Woolf , 51 , from Ilford , Essex , and medical student Elizabeth Green , 23 , from Newmarket , Suffolk . |
| 14 | Later the woman 's benefit was cut off on the grounds that she and her lodger were living together as husband and wife , and he must therefore maintain her . |
| 15 | There was little structure to the market , Welsh Lamb Enterprise was seeking new markets but with no control over supplies , producer groups were operating mainly as dealers , and producers got neither the information they needed nor the returns . |
| 16 | Often these houses were used initially as museums , but eventually fell victim to a series of expenditure cutbacks . |
| 17 | They were valued mainly as sources of timber for the Royal Navy but , in the absence of an effective forestry policy of conservation and production , the yields were small . |
| 18 | SHARES and sterling were becalmed yesterday as dealers looked to company results to provide a clear lead on the UK economic outlook . |
| 19 | Any approaching troughs of wet weather were drawn in as lines , either a warm front or a cold front , and many isobars close together meant high winds . |
| 20 | 150 firemen were drafted in as flames swept through and destroyed number eight hangar . |
| 21 | Good companies as well as bad were going under as result of falling markets and bad debts , said BCC policy director Richard Brown . |
| 22 | Pupils from our friendly neighbourhood school , St John 's , were invited along as passengers and they too became the first to use the bypass . |
| 23 | The police were called in as fighting broke out in the crowd between the rival sets of supporters . |
| 24 | Although the thin soils of the South Downs were less productive than some — Lambourn hundred atop the Berkshire Downs was very similar — rich men were few , mainly because two leading landowners , the earl of Arundel and Lord Bergavenny , were assessed separately as peers , and a third , Sir John Gage , was taxed in the royal household as Comptroller of Calais.6 |
| 25 | CAMPUSES throughout the region were hit yesterday as lecturers launched a national one-day strike over pay . |
| 26 | They were uniform but occurred in such abundance and could so readily be transported that even when they were taken over as currency they could only serve as a rule for small change . |
| 27 | PROPOSALS to form a Premier League second division were thrown out as England 's top clubs achieved a rare showing of unity at a London meeting yesterday . |
| 28 | The youths made considerable progress in learning their trades and most of those who were put out as apprentices retained their situations . |
| 29 | Ranulf and the lay brother were left behind as Thomas explained that the Picti were secretive people , hostile to those races who had pushed them from their lands and so did not take kindly to strangers . |
| 30 | The two men were knocked aside as Corbett swung round the overturned wagon and broke into a gallop , clinging to his horse and hoping it would keep its feet on the rough rutted track . |