Example sentences of "as were [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Television broadcasting was to be reduced , as were air conditioning , street lighting and floodlit sports events . |
| 2 | The PWL disco machine of Stock Aitken Waterman has never stopped reviving disco ; Madonna 's ‘ Vogue ’ and her ‘ You Can Dance ’ remix album were clear tributes to disco culture ; the Pet Shop Boys ' ‘ Disco ’ album was released in 1986 ; Deee-Lite 's ‘ Groove Is In The Heart ’ was disco , as were Army Of Lovers , the Pasadenas , Marshall Jefferson 's productions for Ten City , the early S'Express tracks , the Night Writers ' ‘ Let The Music ( Use You ) ’ and even Yello 's ‘ The Race ’ , which stole its horn arrangement from Gino Soccio 's ‘ Dancer ’ . |
| 3 | Earlier , a minibus had been sent to Eton to collect the Tavistocks ' youngest son Lord James Russell , and some of his young friends including Viscount Lumley , whose parents the Earl and Countess of Scarborough were staying in the houseparty at Woburn , as were Viscount and Viscountess Chelsea . |
| 4 | The practice of apartheid , imposed on Namibia by successive South African governments since 1948 , was made a criminal offence , as were torture and forced labour ; the death penalty was formally banned . |
| 5 | The ACDA text reported that the main areas of continuing disagreement between the negotiating teams consisted of ( i ) definitions of and counting rules covering air-launched cruise missiles ( ALCMs ) : the USA wished only to include nuclear-armed missiles with a range in excess of 1,500 km with the assumption that a specified average number of missiles be attributed to each bomber , while the Soviet Union included " dual-capable " ( conventional/nuclear ) missiles with a range in excess of 600 km with the assumption that the maximum number of missiles be attributed to each type of bomber ; ( ii ) whether submarine-launched cruise missiles ( SLCMs ) should be limited under START ( or under a separate agreement , as had been suggested by the USA ) and if so whether on-site SLCM verification procedures should be deployed ( as the Soviet Union was suggesting ) or " non-binding declarations ' of numbers be issued ( as proposed by the USA ) ; and ( iii ) a " ban on the production , flight testing or modernization " of existing types of heavy ICBMs ( suggested by the USA ) , although a ban on new missile development was agreed , as were warhead and missile sub-limits in this category . |
| 6 | The two most populous countries in the world , China and India , in the low-income economies group , were also separated out from the rest of this group for averaging purposes ; as were oil exporters and oil importers in the middle-income economies group . |
| 7 | Ideas and institutions were just as much a part of the ‘ given ’ facts of European society between 1880 and 1914 as were geography , or political and economic structure , but they are much harder to measure . |
| 8 | Mistletoe was once quite common — as were apple tree orchards — in eastern and southern England , the south-west and parts of the Midlands . |
| 9 | In South Korea , with which Czechoslovakia had established diplomatic relations in 1990 , an agreement promoting bilateral economic co-operation was signed on April 27 as were investment and double taxation agreements . |