Example sentences of "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of Pope Innocent II that Mabel was illegitimate , because of her father 's first contractual marriage , was later superseded by the judgment of Pope Alexander III that the children of annulled marriages , which had been made " in the presence of the church " ( i.e. in good faith and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| 4 | The fact that more than four times as many Soviet warheads were to be withdrawn as American ones gave rise to particular misgivings .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 . |