Example sentences of "was [vb pp] as [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet this ‘ distraction ’ , which the Commission 's own Court of Auditors Reports have warned , costs hundreds of millions of pounds , was dismissed as accounting for no more than 0.18% of farm spending . |
| 2 | The first are the rich and well-born , the other the mass of the people " , Hamilton was reported as saying at the Federal Convention in 1787 . |
| 3 | But ‘ there was no cover up , ’ the Director of Water and Sewage was reported as saying in the Sunday Times . |
| 4 | In the Financial Times of March 28 Bush 's spokesman , Marlin Fitzwater , was reported as saying in the week following the talks that the President was concerned about " the possible collapse " of the Uruguay Round . |
| 5 | In the post-war period , more universally than before , old age , and the socially accepted roles associated with it , was accepted as beginning at a fixed chronological age : the state pensionable age of 60/65 . |
| 6 | On leaving Apple , Steve Jobs was described as ‘ its heart and soul ’ ( Patterson , 1985 ) and Lévesque was seen as speaking for the little people of Quebec , the average French Canadians whom he loved . |
| 7 | The outer layer of the Earth was seen as consisting of a rigid lithosphere , composed of several ‘ plates ’ , which moved over the underlying more mobile asthenosphere . |
| 8 | The SOC , without actually rejecting the plan , gave the least enthusiastic response , with strong reservations about disarmament and about the SNC assuming direct control of key ministries , which was seen as amounting to the dissolution of the SOC government . |
| 9 | As we have seen , one of the main intentions of interactionism was to get away from the conservative , causal-corrective stance that was seen as resulting from the determinism and absolutism of positivist criminology . |
| 10 | In a society in which the king was regarded as God 's regent , rebellion was seen as rising against an authority divinely appointed . |
| 11 | The result was the development of strong anarcho-syndicalist tendencies within the labour movement in which the potential for revolutionary political change was seen as residing in the trade unions or syndicats , so that ‘ the workers , schooled by militancy , made irresistible by the all-powerful weapon of the general strike , would take over society themselves , without need of a political party ’ ( Kendall , 1975 , p. 17 ) . |
| 12 | Busek , who was Minister of Science and Research in Vranitzky 's government and was seen as coming from the ÖVP 's progressive wing , won 325 votes against 252 for Bernhard Görg , an economist . |
| 13 | Poland 's long-term security was seen as lying in the creation of a Euro-Atlantic security system , and future membership of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) was confirmed as an aim . |
| 14 | This idea of a connection between the capitalist economy and a democratic political system appeared in various forms in accounts of the transition that was seen as occurring in the nineteenth-century European societies ( for example , as a movement from status to contract , or from authority to citizenship ) , and it has continued to have an important influence in political theory to the present day . |
| 15 | The chain was envisaged as meandering throughout the system , entering and leaving several ordered regions along its length . |
| 16 | The North American Free Trade Zone ( Nafta ) was envisaged as stretching from the Yukon to the Yucatán peninsula [ for background see pp. 37849 ; 38140 ] . |
| 17 | One group was quoted as ranting at a young police woman : ‘ We 're going to cut your belly open . |
| 18 | In a report to the London Hazards Centre , Michael Meacher , then Shadow Employment Secretary , was quoted as saying of the Conservatives : |
| 19 | Reports spoke also of feelings of resentment among some black African leaders , including Diouf , who was quoted as saying after the summit that " we respect the Arabs more than they respect us " . |
| 20 | ‘ Who can help us without transferring their problems to us ? ’ von Kuenheim was quoted as saying in The Economist earlier this year . |