Example sentences of "what was [verb] [adv] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an attempt to focus attention on what was seen then as the ‘ plight of women ’ , the United Nations had decided that 1975 would be International Woman 's Year . |
| 2 | Possibly it has its origins in the ‘ white noise ’ techniques which the Brits , ever the innovators , pioneered in Northern Ireland in the 1970s ( it has always seemed unjust that what was deplored then as a human rights abuse was later marketed under the brand name of acid house ) . |
| 3 | Although we were suitably impressed by the mere twelve-footer caught in Likangloe , the hunters promised that before we left they would take us into what was known locally as the " Death Cave " to find the really big pythons . |
| 4 | Erm we did n't have what was known nowadays as a formal disciplinary procedure . |
| 5 | But while I tramcar leaving any suburban area there was always what was known then as a worker 's return . |
| 6 | Everybody else remembers the uproar in what was known grandly as the palm Court , the former bar and dance hall where during the day several lessons were held simultaneously , including at least one assault on the piano . |
| 7 | However , Bukharin 's ideas were not formed solely by what was currently happening in Soviet Russia ; rather he viewed what was happening there as a part of a much larger upheaval on a world scale . |