Example sentences of "was [verb] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lane 's partnership with the printer of the Star , Peter Stuart [ q.v. ] , was curtailed in 1789 at the time of the Regency Bill , when Stuart allegedly printed anti-Pitt propaganda ; in revenge , Stuart began a short-lived rival to the Star in which Lane was pilloried as a ‘ scribbling poulterer ’ and his paper as the ‘ Dog Star ’ . |
| 2 | The Attorney-General was joined as a respondent to the application because he had declined to grant his fiat under section 13 of the Coroners Act 1988 , but at the hearing he was released from the proceedings with the consent of all parties . |
| 3 | On Oct. 25 Costa Rica was ratified as the 100th member of the General Treaty on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) . |
| 4 | In 1975 , the Imperial War Museum at Duxford acquired a B–17 that , by 1978 , was repainted as an exact replica of the original Mary Alice . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , if it was intended as a distraction , then that must have been the moment when he poisoned his wife . |
| 6 | It was intended as a high-performance set which could inherit the reliability associated with previous BR ( SR ) DEMUs , thus beating the older , inherently unreliable diesel-mechanical multiple units hands down . |
| 7 | At the heart of the 1982 dispute was a so-called pay factor for public services of 4 per cent , which was intended as a marker for pay rises to those working in all public services . |
| 8 | His performance was intended as a celebration of that renaissance , and also of the prospects for world peace : for in Moscow Comrade Gorbachev and President Reagan were holding a summit meeting which promised to bear fruit in disarmament . |
| 9 | The CEGB denied that it was intended as a bribe . |
| 10 | The Urban Programme consisted of grants and initiatives under the 1969 Local Government Grants ( Social Need ) Act , which was intended as a flexible instrument to provide supplementary help to local authorities in the fields of housing , education , and health . |
| 11 | Scientists today believe this strange sequence of structures was intended as a temple to the river god . |
| 12 | The name was intended as a tribute to Lord Beaverbrook , the politician and newspaper magnate , whose name was synonymous with trust , a quality Beaverbrooks still maintain as one of their principal values , together with their ever present high quality and good service . |
| 13 | Railway No. 3 was to run for over a mile across the open space known as Mitcham Common and was intended as a link between Mitcham and Croydon , with little expectation of intermediate traffic . |
| 14 | Sotheby 's lecture by Helene Cixous of Paris was intended as a feminist apotheosis but was marred by her shaky reading of Rembrandt 's ‘ Bathsheba ’ in the Louvre . |
| 15 | DESIGNED in July 1945 at Tokyo University by Taichiro Ogawa and Ichiro Tani , the Baika ( Plum Blossom ) was intended as a special attack Aircraft for the Imperial Japanese Navy . |
| 16 | It was intended as a ‘ one off ’ but we had so much fun it turned into an annual event . ’ |
| 17 | The death penalty for murders committed in the course or furtherance of theft was intended as a deterrent against the use of physical violence in offences of burglary , housebreaking and robbery . |
| 18 | DURLSTON CASTLE , designed by George Burt 's architect friend Crickmay , was intended as a restaurant . |
| 19 | It was intended as a splendid demonstration of the power and solidarity of the Angevin family , the greatest court ever held in Normandy . |
| 20 | The book was intended as a history of the universe , not of me . |
| 21 | Dexter meant it as a joke but Blanche stared at him for a moment , as if the comment was intended as a serious criticism , before she chuckled softly . |
| 22 | The Report was intended as a review , giving a complete survey ( according to its prospectus ) of Chemistry and its Allied Sciences ; it was to come out in the first half of the year following that reviewed ; and it would give a faithful and ‘ whenever necessary , a complete digest of each investigation ’ in chemistry , and its applications in pharmacy , arts and manufactures . |
| 23 | And yet it was intended as a re-creation of the music of ancient Greece ; that is , as an evocation of a primitive and pure world . |
| 24 | It seems entirely likely that the giving of a mevleviyet was intended as a means of making possible — both in hierarchical terms and in terms of offering an inducement — the appointment of a scholar more highly qualified , and therefore , perhaps , more to be respected , than the normal run of kasabat kadis . |
| 25 | The grammar did not offer total coverage of the language ( it successfully parsed 65% of the corpus it was tested on ) but was intended as a supplement to the results from the Markov analysis of the stenotography . |
| 26 | This question was intended as a thank you to the people who see to the coffee and biscuits at our meetings : |
| 27 | It was intended as a staff information bulletin , and it may be that electronic mail will reduce the requirement for it . |
| 28 | The agreement to stop production of chemical weapons , and to eliminate all but 5,000 tonnes of existing stockpiles , was intended as a catalyst for an agreement on a worldwide ban on the development , production , use and possession of chemical weapons currently under negotiation at the UN Conference on Disarmament in Geneva [ see p. 37224 ] , and both sides undertook to destroy all their stocks once such a ban was in force . |
| 29 | The referendum had no legal force , but was intended as a test of popular support for the draft Union Treaty , the question being a summary of its first article . |
| 30 | It was intended as a device to enable states with major accumulations of crude oil to exercise the fullest possible degree of control over the industry concerned with its extraction . |