Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] be [vb pp] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it so happened the decision of Pope Innocent II that Mabel was illegitimate , because of her father 's first contractual marriage , was later superseded by the judgment of Pope Alexander III that the children of annulled marriages , which had been made " in the presence of the church " ( i.e. in good faith and in public ) , were to be regarded as legitimate . |
| 2 | According to this rule , all male members of the community were obliged to wait until the age of twenty to marry and sire children ; at the age of thirty , they were to be regarded as mature and initiated into the higher ranks of the sect . |
| 3 | The judge further ordered that the doctors were to be regarded as independent and to furnish copies of their reports to both Crown and defence . |
| 4 | The fact that more than four times as many Soviet warheads were to be withdrawn as American ones gave rise to particular misgivings . |
| 5 | Leaders were to be tolerated as long as they were not permanent , and as long as they were held constantly ‘ accountable ’ . |
| 6 | The interpretation for which both the applicant and the Attorney-General contended before the Court of Appeal was that the answer was affirmative ; either because the proceedings for habeas corpus were so firmly imprinted with a civil character that they were to be treated as civil , notwithstanding the essentially criminal nature of the proceedings from which they arose , or because they were of an indeterminate nature , which section 13(2) ( a ) was wide enough to embrace . |
| 7 | Old Testament kings were to be taken as literal models , the measurements of the Temple in Jerusalem as a blueprint for the palatine chapel . |
| 8 | In the Trust House Forte case the court had to interpret the assumption that premises were available for letting for shopping and retail purposes : the issue was whether the premises were to be taken as available for letting purposes only or whether they could be taken as to be available for letting for any other purpose permitted by the lease . |
| 9 | The zaibatsu were to be dissolved as interlocking corporate entities and the US model of monopoly control established . |
| 10 | The prose which preoccupied Milton during the Commonwealth and Protectorate periods was to be seen as separate and certainly intrinsically less interesting than the poetry in which Parker portrays Milton participating in some universalised European humanism . |
| 11 | Two of the women who founded the centre in 1980 , the charismatic Mrs Penny Brohn , a cancer sufferer herself who has spurned the path of orthodox medicine , and Mrs Pat Pilkington , and Dr Alec Forbes , the centre 's medical adviser , made it quite clear in the first of the series of six , that the centre 's work was to be seen as supplementary to orthodox treatment and not a substitute for it . |
| 12 | Yet even Renan 's treatment was to be regarded as saccharine and uncritically sentimental by the generation of Modernists who had begun to appear in the last quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | ( 6 ) There was no evidence that the plaintiffs had ever given any express instructions that the sales information or the information about prices was to be treated as confidential . |
| 14 | In fact , precisely because Roman catholic power was to be accepted as normative in an entirely natural way by the catholic — nationalist population , the church 's part-active and part-passive acceptance of the capitalist system of government and thorough opposition to socialism had a significant legitimating function for the Irish state-form . |
| 15 | He proclaimed a classic revival in the arts in which the work of art was to be judged as whole and not on the merits of its parts or in relation to its creator : ‘ … the work of art should be conceived as a pipe or a hat is conceived by the craftsman who produces it ; all parts should have a strictly determined place according to their function and importance . |
| 16 | Under the terms of the agreement , to be ratified by the Haitian parliament , Réné Théodore was to be installed as Prime Minister as planned previously and was to prepare for Aristide 's return . |