Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | One such area has been its library services which until now , maintains Mathews , were regarded simply as a programming resource . |
| 2 | Jobless er tory jobless figures were exposed yesterday as a fraud . |
| 3 | The elections , which involved well over a quarter of the electorate , were seen both as a dress rehearsal for the North-Rhine Westphalian Land elections in May next year and as a test of the political mood in the country . |
| 4 | As will be seen , literature and the discipline which was based upon it were seen primarily as a means of transmitting personalities , on the model of the Dictionary of National Biography . |
| 5 | These elections were presented almost as a referendum on the performance of the government , and in such an atmosphere most councils must have felt confident that , for this year at least , they would avoid any adverse local electoral reaction to their fiscal policies . |
| 6 | The economic and political consequences of the Chilean inflation were made worse as a result of the widespread use of controls . |
| 7 | During the course of the fieldwork under discussion here , they were used principally as a means of access to user groups and also as foils for cross-checking general data provided by other informants . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , Ellie , you do know , ’ he said quietly , in direct contrast to her stormy denial , ‘ and I can either believe that the letters were used merely as a passport for something else , or you are indeed a calculating little bitch intent only on causing pain . ’ |
| 9 | The bricks were laid in alternate courses with stone or concrete , or were used only as a facing on a concrete core . |
| 10 | Meanwhile Mr. Samuel Kay had bought the Greek Street site for £5,000 ; the buildings were used thereafter as a Central School , and Evening School , and a hall for hire . |
| 11 | In a similar way , in the second century BC , some cities of Asia Minor made coins ( e.g. , fig. 6 ) of a weight standard which was heavier than that in force in the kingdom of Asia ; it is no surprise that these coins all turn up in hoards outside Asia , mostly in northern Syria , where they were exported either as a political subsidy for the pretender Alexander Balas or as trade objects in exchange for goods , perhaps slaves . |
| 12 | There were other ways of arriving at much the same conclusion but one logical consequence was that the non-biblical " gentiles " and the " savages " were lumped together as a kind of historical residue of " first men " . |
| 13 | Whether a compiler is a quality product soon becomes evident , and with some there is the suspicion that they were cobbled together as a response to opposition product innovations . |
| 14 | These results were confirmed when patients with Barrett 's oesophagus were compared separately as a group with patients without Barrett 's oesophagus using the Mann-Whitney U test . |
| 15 | These , as he entered the headship , were coming together as a mixed voluntary-aided comprehensive high school . |
| 16 | Between 1985 and 1990 , some 25,000 trainees were trained here as a result of agreements with other governments . |
| 17 | But there they were working together as a community , there in the great communal fields , where everybody had their own plot , but working together . |
| 18 | Administrative blunders and a four-year delay in settling the dispute were described yesterday as a scandal by union leaders involved in the battle . |