Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1936 she was adopted as the prospective parliamentary candidate for the Exchange division of Liverpool . |
| 2 | She says other prisoners used to chant ’ Baroness , ’ but eventually they accepted her and she was know as the Duchess . |
| 3 | In early religion she was worshipped as the patroness of marriage , her fecundity being petitioned with gifts of fruit and seeds . |
| 4 | She was cast as the selfish villainess of the drama , her husband the innocent injured party . |
| 5 | Eventually she was appointed as the Mission 's Scottish Deputation Secretary where the full range of her gifts were put at the disposal of the churches . |
| 6 | On going down from Newnham , she was appointed as the first principal of Cambridge Training College , formed with the purpose of training university women to teach in girls ' secondary schools . |
| 7 | On Saturday she was chosen as the candidate by members of the Euro-constituency which the party held at the last election in 1990 by just 2,977 votes . |
| 8 | A bottle of champagne was magically produced and , to her surprise and satisfaction , she was toasted as the ‘ baby ’ of the gathering . |
| 9 | She was hailed as the Eugene Field of Canada . |
| 10 | When she took over as First Lady four years ago , she was hailed as the freshest breath of air to hit Washington in years . |
| 11 | da Alan she was measured as the store in Ulster and all . |
| 12 | She was sobbing as the remains of her dad simply drifted away . |
| 13 | In Albania she was known as the queen of the mountaineers , and streets there have remained named after her through all changes of regime . |