Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adv] [verb] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the sound of gunfire the refugee ship turned away and made off round the southern counties and up towards Liverpool , where it was finally recognised as a friendly vessel . |
| 2 | It was clearly intended as a warning to Downing Street . |
| 3 | It was clearly intended as a question about her personal life , and , after a short hesitation , she decided that he had the right to an answer , if she really was going to take the job — and she now suspected gloomily that she was . |
| 4 | At that time it was officially known as the ‘ Poor Law Institution ’ , although the sick wards there had been distinguished as St. Peter 's Hospital for some years . |
| 5 | Nothing was new in this White Paper : it was emphasized that it provided an outline of a long-term strategy rather than a programme of rapid action , so it was generally regarded as a due statement of concern and good intentions , and little more . |
| 6 | Though the election was carried out by the usual X-vote system which provided scope for tactical voting and complaints about vote splitting , it was generally accepted as a crushing defeat for Sunningdale . |
| 7 | Although President Carlos Saúl Menem tried to minimize the scale of the defeat , it was generally seen as a severe reverse both for his government and for menemismo , a flamboyant style of administration now associated with scandal and corruption [ see pp. 37959 ; 38144 ; 38674 ; 38719 ] . |
| 8 | The race returned for on year in 1940 and was held over nine laps of a 100-mile circuit that took in Brescia-Cremona-Brescia and , while it was generally known as the Brescia Grand Prix , it still was accorded Mille Miglia status , unlike the 1939 event . |
| 9 | However , the ICRC also reported that Iran would not accept doctors , technicians or other professionals ( with which it was well equipped as the result of its war with Iraq ) , sniffer dogs or blood plasma ( on religious grounds ) , or satellite communications equipment ; it also insisted that food must conform to Islamic rules , and that those delivering the aid would be granted 24-hour visas only . |
| 10 | It was also seen as a way of raising standards of attainment : the specification of targets and the systematic assessment of pupils ' work on a national basis were thought to constitute a challenge to schools and teachers to raise their expectations , and to channel their efforts to bring about enhanced standards in pupils in the key areas represented by the national curriculum . |
| 11 | It was also seen as a war of national self-defence against those who had invaded French territory and had incited loyal subjects into rebellion . |
| 12 | Not only was ‘ Dositejism ’ denounced by Metropolitan Stratimirović because of its anticlericalism , its suspected ‘ Protestantism ’ and its attachment to an alien western culture , but it was also seen as a threat to the language . |
| 13 | It was also seen as a stark warning for the ALP federal government which was due to face the electorate by mid-1993 . |
| 14 | It was also seen as an attempt to undermine the UN 's plans for a referendum in Western Sahara [ see p. 38982 ] . |
| 15 | It was also presented as a contribution to the strengthening of the United Nations . |
| 16 | Under his successors , it was also exploited as a source of revenue by allowing men to pay a fine for exemption . |
| 17 | Garuda 's golden colour meant it was also regarded as a sun-symbol . |
| 18 | It was also used as the finish for small or irregularly shaped subsidiary roofs over bays and porches , etc . |
| 19 | It was just seen as a normal part of the job then really . |
| 20 | ‘ They had to move them in a hurry when my people started going through the district and it was just intended as a temporary hiding-place . |
| 21 | Reformers attacking the subordinate status of women have naturally appealed to the idea of equality , because it was already recognised as a proper and powerful tool of reform . |
| 22 | One factor was that although the motor car made up only one third of all motor vehicles , it was yet seen as the crux of the motor problem ( Plowden , 1971 ) . |
| 23 | It was shown in the fourteenth-century Queen Mary Psalter and many times in the centuries that followed , but it was later rejected as an imaginative fiction . |
| 24 | Since 1983 numbers at the Beacon continued to fall as it was increasingly seen as a resource for children with severe and multiple disabilities . |
| 25 | There was a torn squab cushion on the top and it was traditionally used as a place to dump coats , scarves and gloves . |
| 26 | Only very few other circuits are known to contain turf , and in one case at least , at Cirencester , it was probably inserted as a repair . |
| 27 | As at Godmanchester , it was probably used as a collection and storage point . |
| 28 | The only one I got was that in his view thirteen and a half was too late for confirmation ; it was best done as a sort of early ‘ double shot ’ — like a jab of cholera with typhoid — along with baptism . |
| 29 | It was widely recognised as an important landmark and NME readers voted it their fourth best album of 1987 . |
| 30 | Although the government eventually decided to accept royalties from sales of the chip rather than to take an equity share in the company , it was widely seen as the last straw in a conflict between Fields and the administration . |