Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [adv] [verb] as [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The Lancashire and Yorkshire Company 's service to Blackpool and Southport was regularly criticized as slow , uncomfortable , and dilatory .
2 Rex was then re-elected as Premier when the Assembly reconvened .
3 First Deputy Prime Minister Eriya Kategaya was also named as National Political Commissar .
4 Sar Kheng was also appointed as Interior Minister , replacing Gen. Sin Song who took charge of the new Ministry of National Security .
5 Croatia was effectively split as eastern Slavonia and a stretch of the Zagreb-Belgrade motorway near Okucani came under Serbian control .
6 The efforts of Lord Carrington as chair of the EC-sponsored peace conference on Yugoslavia were increasingly criticized as ineffective .
7 To Neil , hide-bound Englishman that he was , Philip Arbuthnot was best described as Irish , because he could n't account for him in any other way .
8 Ganev stressed that the Balkans would be destabilized if Macedonia was not recognised as independent , and that Bulgaria had no territorial claim upon it .
9 The physical characteristics of blacks in America were traditionally defined as undesirable and associated with a range of negative qualities .
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