Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deficits were offset through membership subscriptions , which declined in the late forties , and through sums remitted to the District which were calculated annually as per capita branch quotas . |
| 2 | Returning soldiers were spat on as they walked off their planes and the Death Valley sized rift that ensued still causes tensions among many . |
| 3 | Although many more ancient monuments and ruins existed than survive today , they were either thought of as relatively recent ruins or natural phenomena , or else they were explained away as having been made by gods or legendary heroes . |
| 4 | The couple were listed simply as Extract 41 — the 41st wedding to take place in registrar Molly Croll 's district this year . |
| 5 | A number of thick pillars , shrouded in a miasmic fuzz of mould , were placed around as roof supports while , in the centre of the chamber , was a circle of more squared-off pillars , as if someone had decided to use a megalithic circle as a set of buttresses . |
| 6 | Some examples of such arrangements were given above as illustrations of the way in which governmental functions may be performed by non-governmental bodies . |
| 7 | The company also made records for the ‘ World-echo ’ and ‘ Siemens ’ labels , and they were given away as Christmas presents in giant Christmas crackers made by Mead & Fields Ltd . |
| 8 | He had not had much hope that they would rent the garage to a teenager , since teenagers were regarded generally as being as reliable as something out of the zoo . |
| 9 | To detect contamination occurring during preparation of samples , negative control samples containing only water were treated exactly as the tissue samples and examined by polymerase chain reaction techniques . |
| 10 | In February 1992 , however , Lautro 's Rules were amended so as to give other persons served with an intervention notice the right to appeal against it : see new rules 7.28 and 7.3(12) . |
| 11 | The motor expenses paid in the year were broken down as follows : |
| 12 | If , however , the CLRC 's proposal were altered so as to make mercy killing into a new qualified defence to murder , with the normal maximum sentence of life imprisonment , the central plank of the opposition to an explicit recognition of this mitigation in English law would disappear . |
| 13 | The rules of the Young Communist League were altered so as to widen its membership " not only to those who support its stated policy and aims , but also to those who , while not being actively hostile to its policy and aims , wish to study Socialism " . |
| 14 | Not only did farms become larger and more specialized , but village craftsmen — millers , blacksmiths , carpenters , wheelwrights , bakers , and cobblers — were squeezed out as their trades were concentrated in the towns . |
| 15 | This was followed in 1988 by a reform of the Community Budget in which steps were taken to shift expenditure from agricultural to the structural funds , that is those concerned with regional and social matters , and the expenditure rules were recast so as to concentrate such structural spending on the poorest regions . |
| 16 | But WIN was leaking like a sieve , the Polish militia were told in advance and the men were picked up as soon as they touched the ground . |
| 17 | They were grouped just as he had left them , all looking warily after him . |
| 18 | In this analysis hospitals 1 and 2 were the county 's main consultant units , all the other consultant units were grouped together as hospital 3 , and all the general practitioner units were grouped together . |
| 19 | According to Judge Ovidiu Zarnescu , president of the Central Electoral Bureau , at the start of the campaign 5,716 candidates were nominated either as independents or by one of the 73 political parties for the 387 elective National Assembly seats and 1,584 candidates were nominated for the 119 Senate seats . |
| 20 | The wheels were carried on as cast stands held down by bolts 8 feet long to a plate set in concrete . |
| 21 | Isolation of total RNA , purification of poly ( A ) + RNA from zebrafish embryos at different developmental stages , gel electrophoresis and Northern blot analysis were carried out as described previously ( 54 ) . |
| 22 | Isolation of nucleic acids , gel electrophoresis , hybridization conditions , oligonucleotide synthesis and standard in vitro recombinant techniques were carried out as described elsewhere ( 27 , 28 ) . |
| 23 | Binding assays were carried out as previously described ( 18 ) . |
| 24 | Assays of CAT activity were carried out as described by Gorman ( 19 ) with extracts which were equalised for protein content , as determined by the method of Bradford ( 20 ) . |
| 25 | Similar procedures were carried out as described above except that the secondary antibody was rabbit antibody to human immunoglobulin conjugated with peroxidase ( DAKO , High Wycombe , UK ) instead of alkaline phosphatase . |
| 26 | Cytoplasmic RNA isolation , first strand cDNA synthesis and PCR amplification were carried out as previously described ( 1 ) . |
| 27 | DNase I sensitivity assays were carried out as described by Enver et al. |
| 28 | Hybridisation and S1 protection reactions were carried out as described previously ( 16,17 , also see below ) . |
| 29 | The first of several , annual Parliamentary ladies ' golf matches , between lady relations of Members of the Houses of Lords and Commons , were reported on as Henley had at least two ladies who were eligible to play — Mrs. Kate Fleming , wife of the Club President and Henley 's M.P. , Mr. Valentine Fleming , and Mrs. Cecil Norton . |
| 30 | Images of London 's wartime blitz were conjured up as children taught their parents how to use gas masks . |