Example sentences of "were [vb pp] as a " in BNC.
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1 | KOMIKs were developed as a result of the work of SIDT 's SEI ! theatre group , which performs theme-based dramatisations of issues being discussed in workshops . |
2 | In the west and Wales , large numbers of churches were developed as a result of late/post-Roman Christianity by so-called ‘ Celtic Saints ’ . |
3 | CYNICS might argue that ‘ green ’ or environmental funds and their ethical counterparts were developed as a marketing tool to attract the conscientious investor . |
4 | The handsome wrought-iron gates of the Palace were erected as a memorial to Edward VII . |
5 | Effects of cimetidine and histamine of the cells were calculated as a percentage of the untreated controls . |
6 | However , this advantage would be lost if the allophones that were the product of word-internal context-effects were also caused by context-effects across word boundaries : thus if in lee were realised as a voiceless [ l ] in a moderately fast production of … tip leewards … , lee would once more be embedded within plea even at an allophonic level of representation . |
7 | Children were recognized as a cause for long-lasting happiness , so they are included in the vision of the happy family . |
8 | In yet another demonstration of Yugoslavia 's fragmentation along ethnic lines , hostility between Serbs and Moslems ( who were recognized as a distinct nationality in Yugoslavia ) led to clashes in Bosnia-Hercegovina 's southern town of Foca , and across the nearby border in Serbia 's Novi Pazar district ( part of the historic Sanjak region ) . |
9 | All-party talks on the future of Northern Ireland , initiated by Peter Brooke , the UK Northern Ireland Secretary [ see p. 38156 ] , which were due to start on May 7 , were delayed as a result of procedural disputes mainly concerning the venue and chairing of the second strand of discussions . |
10 | If the cells were placed as a solid clump in the sandwich , induction was good and many of the cells developed into muscle ; but if the cells were placed in the sandwich as a thin single layer no muscle cells developed . |
11 | And in the city 's claim for a grant , figures for the Newtown and Ladywood districts were given as a shocking 514.61 crimes for every 1,000 people living there . |
12 | All injections were given as a 200 µl bolus of neuropeptide Y ( Peninsula , Belmont , CA , USA ) dissolved in sterile 0.9% saline containing 0.1% dog albumin ( Sigma , St Louis , MO , USA ) or the carrier alone as control . |
13 | A further twenty-four lots were withdrawn as a result of uncertainty over ownership . |
14 | But their other eight awards were squandered as a result of a badly worked routine . |
15 | Parts of the Lacandona forest were designated as a biological reserve earlier this year [ see ED 56 ] . |
16 | These youth cliques , with picturesque names like Edelweisspiraten or , based on their taste in music , Swing , were regarded as a political menace by the regime , and for the most part their behaviour did contain a distinct political dimension — rejection of the Party , the Hitler Youth , the regime , and the Führer himself and the lack of freedom and dull uniformity which his rule represented . |
17 | Further discussions with instructors also confirmed that videos were regarded as a training aid of great potential which should never be overlooked . |
18 | Cakes baked on the gridiron were regarded as a luxury , and sometimes a substitute for tea was made by pouring boiling water over burnt crusts of bread . |
19 | At best they were regarded as a distraction , if not a danger ; the assumption being that as they did not smoke or play outdoor games , ‘ they devote themselves … to inducing lads to leave humming-tops and marbles , and cleave only to them ’ . |
20 | It is important to stress that enterprise zones were regarded as a political experiment by the Conservative government elected in 1979 . |
21 | Before the stories of Helen Keller and Laura Bridgman , two educated deaf and blind ladies in America , became known , deaf and blind people were regarded as a great curiosity . |
22 | ( The Companies House penalties were regarded as a minor inconvenience by the directors . ) |
23 | Budget deficits were regarded as a normal feature of economic management based on Keynesian principles . |
24 | Since offices were regarded as a form of property , reform could be stigmatized as an encroachment upon freehold . |
25 | Although the colliery communities -were never really associated with the cult of respectability , which was so important in dividing the " rough " from the " respectable " working class in Victorian England , nevertheless the pit brow women were regarded as a moral threat . |
26 | Into the nineteenth century , as I have mentioned , I middle-class houses were regarded as a scaling down of the houses of the great , while a majority of novels still referred themselves to the dominant mansion at their centre . |
27 | His works were regarded as a primary source of overriding significance for the study not merely of his own activity but of any and every aspect of the history of the revolution . |
28 | From Palestine apples were taken to Egypt and cultivated in the Nile delta during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries BC , where they were regarded as a luxury . |
29 | Bir Zeit was the largest university in the West Bank and the election results were regarded as a good indicator of general Palestinian support for the two main competing groups , the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) and the Islamic Resistance Movement ( Hamas ) . |
30 | If , however , liquidity were regarded as a scarce commodity , then the bond price would fall as the degree of liquidity rose , in which case the coefficient on the liquidity measure would be negative . |