Example sentences of "[noun] [that] were [verb] as " in BNC.

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1 This time it was his eyes that were narrowed as he watched her as closely as any cat after a mouse .
2 Companies that were seen as vulnerable to a Labour victory led share prices upwards .
3 Tobacco , cacao plants ( for chocolate ) and tea were other plants that were established as cash crops in new parts of the world as a result of this programme .
4 Of course the low percentage achievement does in part reflect the very high targets that were set as the plan was revised upwards during the course of the period , and it was carried out under the slogan of ‘ the five year plan in four years ’ .
5 Here was an opportunity to demonstrate the architectural difference between analytical thought in the service of society and the Czech artist Karel Teige as the difference between buildings that are instruments and buildings that were conceived as expendable machines , not eternal monuments or worse , post-Modern fakes .
6 In addition to the processes just described , repeated presentation of a stimulus also brings about those changes responsible for habituation that I discussed in Chapter 2 — changes that were characterized as resulting in the formation of a representation of the stimulus .
7 The accusation of hostility to Israel took on new meaning in November 1967 , when de Gaulle made comments about the characteristics of the Jewish people that were interpreted as anti-Semitic .
8 The internal limits derived from the " nature " and " character " of the sovereign , but it was the external limits that were seen as of especial significance in the context of a democratic polity .
9 Debbie was criticised in some quarters for including works that were seen as too ‘ traditional ’ , referring to older forms of artmaking such as drawing , painting and sculpture .
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