Example sentences of "was [being] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | MainMan was n't started right at that point but then DeFries had the idea that he could keep a better eye on David , myself and eventually Mick Ronson , as he was being treated as a solo artist . |
| 2 | A Mounties spokesman said the death blast 600ft down in the Yellowknife mine in the Northwest Territories was being treated as ‘ multiple homicide ’ . |
| 3 | He had met commanders from both sides to tell them the shooting was being treated as murder . |
| 4 | He had met commanders from both sides to tell them the killing of L/ Cpl Edwards was being treated as murder . |
| 5 | The man was being treated as a witness who may have information about Moira 's disappearance . |
| 6 | The man was being treated as a witness who may have had information to give them concerning Moira 's disappearance . |
| 7 | The man interviewed in Doncaster was being treated as a witness who may have information about Moira 's disappearance . |
| 8 | The resolution was ambiguous in not making it clear whether the ROK was being recognised as ‘ South Korea ’ or as the government of the whole of Korea . |
| 9 | What I had meant to say was that he was being inducted as a churchwarden , and the two of them had gone off for the ceremony — my friend was having a busy day ! |
| 10 | A devaluation of the rial by 23 per cent in February 1990 was initially reported as the introduction of a preferential rate in an effort to increase the remittances of foreign currency by North Yemenis working abroad ; however , by March 1990 this new rate of approximately US$1.00=12 rials was being cited as the official rate . |
| 11 | Sadly , however , the team was being painted as a bunch of indisciplined rogues even before the tour had started . |
| 12 | The dispute was being regarded as a trial of strength by the labour movement ( in a nationwide context of increased union militancy ) and the solidarity of all the trades in the printing industry impressed the employers still standing out against the men 's memorial . |
| 13 | Before long , Giles was being employed as a mundane baggage handler , at Heathrow . |
| 14 | It is not long ago that Mr Milken was being lionised as the greatest revitaliser of American business since J. Pierpont Morgan . |
| 15 | On Aug. 31 , it was announced that Tudjman had appointed Ivan Milas as another Deputy Premier and Smiljo Sokol as Government Minister , and that Goran Radin was being replaced as Government Secretary by Jurica Malcic . |
| 16 | She was being born as the Samtampa went down . |
| 17 | However , Fran now felt that she was being accepted as part of the team . |
| 18 | For these teachers , the development of ‘ collaborative methods of working ’ had moved beyond discrete tasks , contexts and settings ( deciding for a particular activity between individual and group working ) , towards an approach in which collaboration was being developed as an integral element of the learning environment as a whole . |
| 19 | By some time in 1940 a cloth version was being worn as a topi flash ; and some time thereafter , on the left sleeve only , by 7 Armd . |
| 20 | Another horse with a lot going for him is Cahervillahow who two years ago was being touted as a future winner of the Cheltenham Gold Cup . |
| 21 | It is much harder to move from a visual , qualitative appreciation of what can be seen under the microscope to more quantitative measures of how much or how many of any component is present ; yet unless something entirely new was being synthesized as a result of training , then what we might anticipate observing would be small changes in the number , pattern or distribution of existing structures , particularly synapses . |
| 22 | Wilson also announced that a new Hong Kong Technology Centre was being planned as part of the overall strategy to boost the economy , that an International Business Committee would be set up as a means of tapping the talents of overseas businesspeople for the benefit of the whole community , and that £1,600,000 would be spent to bring pollution under control . |
| 23 | There was now the added problem of his huge work schedule , and she was being viewed as the girlfriend of a very successful actor — when time allowed . |
| 24 | The trial was being viewed as a test case for the law , but Isobel Brydie , co-chairman of Scotland 's Campaign Against Irresponsible Drivers , said that as Ballantine had been as convicted on the dangerous driving charge it did not test the court 's response to the new section . |
| 25 | On the day that the Sinn Fein president Mr Gerry Adams lost his seat in West Belfast , the blast was being seen as a deliberate attempt by the IRA to place the Irish question firmly back in the political agenda . |
| 26 | EC trade analysts said last night that M Delors was probably happy to raise the temperature of the dispute , to minimise expectations for his Washington mission , which until yesterday was being seen as the last chance to save the five-year round of Gatt talks . |
| 27 | It was as Everett had feared — the Golden Share was being seen as a kind of sterilization pill which would prevent a takeover and a profitable union . |
| 28 | I was told that I was being sent as C.O. 800X Squadron which was then forming with Fulmars at Donibristle . |
| 29 | Sandys persuaded his father , the Archbishop of York , that Hooker 's scholarship was being wasted as a country parson , and in 1585 he was appointed as Master of the Temple , in London , where it was his duty to minister to the lawyers of the Inns of Court . |
| 30 | The Canal Company leased the mill and , by the early 1800s it was being worked as a corn mill by John Jenkins . |