Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] as [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He condemned the ruler of Iraq , Saddam Hussein for invading Kuwait , an act which he qualified as violating the principles of international law and of the United Nations . |
| 2 | A 24-hour strike was called by the Bolivian Workers ' Central ( COB ) for April 9 , in protest against the anti-coca campaign and against new legislation for the mining sector , approved at the same session of the Congress , which it regarded as preparing the way for privatization . |
| 3 | It described as exaggerated the FMLN 's claim that it controlled 5,000 sq km of territory — a quarter of the country . |
| 4 | The agreement , subject to negotiation of final terms and conditions , provides that $8m , which was due on March 1 , will be due for repayment on December 31 1993 , and the other $8m on March 1 , 1994 ; Commodore and Prudential also agreed in principle to extend a March 1 $5m senior note repayment to December 31 , and the company said it paid as scheduled the remaining $12.5m senior note maturities due to Prudential and to another of its lenders . |
| 5 | The distribution of types of artefact dated by the typological method were compared with historical information , particularly recorded battles between the Anglo-Saxons and the native population , which he saw as marking the stages by which the migrants conquered the country . |
| 6 | But the relation of labourism to the working class was passive ; it accepted as given the position of the class and its organisations in an historically-evolved bourgeois society . |