Example sentences of "was [adv] [vb pp] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet it is no more than a nine-horse race , even if one of the teams is more pony than stallion , and no extreme predictions will be found in this column ; the taste of the printed page proved far too unpalatable in 1983 , when criticism of India , eventual World Cup winners , was duly exposed as unwarranted and the urgent suggestion that one should eat one 's words was honourably met . |
| 2 | The key target audience for the reports was overwhelmingly stated as being the company 's own employees . |
| 3 | The model was diagrammatically represented as shown in figure 4.1 . |
| 4 | One of the aims of the review was to produce a formula which was empirically based as opposed to the original RAWP formula , which included standardised mortality ratio as a proxy for need on theoretical grounds . |
| 5 | In the event the party 's net loss of around 200 seats was , or was successfully presented as being , better than expected . |
| 6 | He is , indeed , entitled to be described as a great player , Britain 's nonpareil of the 1980s , who was eventually recognised as such by even the hardened doubters in Australia after his summer with Balmain in 1988 . |
| 7 | Croatia was effectively split as eastern Slavonia and a stretch of the Zagreb-Belgrade motorway near Okucani came under Serbian control . |
| 8 | It appears that Innocent in November to December 1199 was badly informed as to the power of Otto 's party . |
| 9 | FRENCH fishermen fought with riot police in several ports yesterday and at least one policeman was badly hurt as anger over cheap imports spilled over into violence . |
| 10 | The EC 's failure to present a united front on the Gulf crisis [ see p. 37934 ] was widely cited as making greater foreign co-ordination even more imperative . |
| 11 | That interpretation was widely viewed as favoring business over minority and female employees attempting to charge job discrimination . |
| 12 | A path of accommodation with the Soviet authorities was widely assessed as having ensured his rise through the Church hierarchy from 1949 ; as Patriarch he was criticized for failing to challenge the repressive state regulations governing church affairs and to defend persecuted believers . |
| 13 | Both sides said that Bush was too busy with the Gulf War , but US unease about events in the Baltic was widely assessed as having also been a factor . |
| 14 | Moreover , the Council itself was widely regarded as dangerously left-wing , dominated not just by teachers , but by teachers acceptable to the furthest left of the teachers ' unions , the NUT ( itself then containing large proportion of primary school teachers , without university connections ) . |
| 15 | McCleod was widely regarded as one of the best centre-forwards in the country , and several clubs were interested in him . |
| 16 | In 1885 Prussian Oberpräsident Möllendorf , who was widely regarded as pro-Polish , recommended a total ban on the Polish language , saying that only in this way was it possible to force the Poles to appreciate the benevolence and wisdom of German culture and administration . |
| 17 | He was widely regarded as having one of the most brilliant minds in the Royal Navy . |
| 18 | Agriculture was still a major economic activity in the first postwar decades , and the ability to control the food supply was widely regarded as central to national sovereignty . |
| 19 | Within the rock discourse of the time , progressive rock was widely regarded as associated with , indeed as the music of , the ‘ counterculture ’ . |
| 20 | In Byelorussia , which was widely regarded as retaining one of the most conservative republican leaderships , it had been decided to allocate a quota of reserved Supreme Soviet seats for official organizations ( a practice applied in the March 1989 elections to the USSR Congress of People 's Deputies but since labelled undemocratic and abandoned for national elections — see p. 36978 ) . |
| 21 | This was widely regarded as indicating a warmer attitude towards NATO , in which France 's position had been ambiguous since it withdrew from its integrated military structure in 1966 . |
| 22 | It was widely regarded as presaging a new era of more co-operative meetings between the leaders of the two governments . |
| 23 | His intervention , although criticized by Slovak leaders , was widely regarded as having facilitated a resolution of the devolution issue . |
| 24 | The vote for the 12 provincial legislatures was widely regarded as of national importance , and was seen in particular as a preliminary negative verdict by voters on a major austerity plan proposed by the government the previous month . |
| 25 | A separate document also released on June 7 , on NATO 's " core security functions " , was widely regarded as representing the United States perspective , and reiterated that " the security of North America is permanently tied to the security of Europe " . |
| 26 | Pérez de Cuéllar 's report was widely regarded as having consequences advantageous to Morocco . |
| 27 | The composition of the new Cabinet , however , was widely regarded as strengthening the position of Mchangama , leader of the MWANGAZA party and son-in-law of the President . |
| 28 | Both Cosic and FRY Prime Minister Milan Panic had called for early presidential and general elections in Serbia to remove from power the republic 's hardline President Slobodan Milosevic , who was widely regarded as responsible for the continuation of the Bosnian conflict . |
| 29 | The tale of phantom archers from Agincourt aiding British troops was widely accepted as factual , and by the summer of 1915 the legend of the ‘ Angels of Mons ’ had swept the country . |
| 30 | This clutch of appointments , together with her post-Falklands dominance in the Cabinet , was widely seen as heralding the introduction of a Prime Minister 's Department . |