Example sentences of "[conj] they were [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was the only one who could be charged with dereliction of duty , I Judged who I thought was the best : I selected them and then took them to my station — Warboys — where they were trained as Pathfinders . |
| 2 | I had seen them in Kano clutching their swords as they slept in shop doorways where they were employed as night-watchmen . |
| 3 | From Palestine apples were taken to Egypt and cultivated in the Nile delta during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries BC , where they were regarded as a luxury . |
| 4 | The Cabinet changes aroused concern in the US Congress , where they were described as a " constitutional coup " by the House of Representatives government operations committee chairman John Conyers . |
| 5 | Although they were envisaged as an alternative to full institutional care , they tended to be used by those within the community who had hitherto remained dependent on family or friends . |
| 6 | That sport and , for that matter , entertainment may not be viable avenues from despair is less important than the fact that they were seen as such by groups who saw no alternatives . |
| 7 | They were sometimes denied the authority necessary for the fulfilment of their expected role , and it was critically important that they were seen as part of a school 's management team rather than being relegated to the position of mere facilitator . |
| 8 | Morley denied that they were intended as a prelude to parliamentary government . |
| 9 | That people are born free and equal is an a priori assumption , argued Duguit , whereas it is an incontestable fact that they were born as members of a collectivity . |
| 10 | The defence of the format of these books is that they were written as part of a struggle . |
| 11 | At this stage , however , only a small number of men were so closely identified with the Woodvilles that they were perceived as a threat by Richard . |
| 12 | At this stage , however , only a small number of men were so closely identified with the Woodvilles that they were perceived as a threat by Richard . |
| 13 | It is significant that they were known as Tarianas , a title closely resembling that given to the tribes of Turania in Turkistan who were associated with the Serpent , the Taryans . |
| 14 | Sometimes the workmanship in these archaic stone artefacts was very fine , and it is possible that they were used as insignia of rank , in much the same way as stone maces in the Wessex Culture in southern England ; if so , it is curious that the same obsolete tool became associated with rank in two cultures that were geographically so widely separated . |
| 15 | Their recovery from graves shows that they were used as personal ornaments , but the discovery of large numbers in the peat bogs , sometimes enclosed in eared flasks , suggests that they were also used as votive offerings , a sign which suggests in itself that amber was regarded as precious enough to serve as conspicuous waste . |
| 16 | All my examples run to quite high numbers , which suggests not only that they were a large early printing , but that they were used as ordinary day returns in later days . |
| 17 | In a measured reconsideration of Blincoe 's account , after a modern historian seeking to defend the early cotton masters sought to discredit it , Professor Musson concluded : There is no doubt whatever that many children were exploited and ill treated in the early textile mills , that they were used as cheap factory labour , that their hours of work were far too long , that accident , ill-health and deformities were common , and that cruel punishments were often inflicted . |
| 18 | This huge fourfold piece of political iconography , comparable as imperial propaganda to the Great Exhibition in London of 1851 , was executed we should remember by a single hand and was therefore surely centrally commissioned ; but it is equally significant of the proud standing of the demes that they were chosen as the vehicle for this glorious Attica-wide religious boasting . |
| 19 | It seemed like a complete breakdown ; but after a few minutes he saw that they were playing as if they had always played this way . |
| 20 | Later , and also accidentally , they were found to damage and destroy living tissues , so they were applied as a kind of cautery to ulcerating cancerous growths as well as to other conditions such as inflammations and tuberculosis . |
| 21 | Sometimes people or Men changed for a moment into some semblance of shape , but then they moved and the mist drifted and they were gone as if they had never been . |
| 22 | However , if you left a child under 12 ( England and Wales ) or under seven ( Scotland ) in your home with an unguarded or inadequately guarded fire and they were injured as a result , you would be legally responsible . |
| 23 | I think the atmosphere is certainly lost and the environment is different today without the patients , and their attitude was that this was more like a family than a hospital ward and they were treated as family . |
| 24 | The first permanent companies of artillery , to replace the basically civilian gunners hired ad hoc when required , had been formed , on Marlborough 's advice , in 1716 , and in 1727 their number was increased to four and they were united as the Royal Regiment of Artillery . |
| 25 | they live in the , a beautiful house , a little house , old , very old and erm they always said there was a secret passage underneath and my , my uncle er used to er he used , he named , he named some locks , my uncle did a till lock and when I star began to work there er they were called Salmon Baits and er Mr said to me you know he said er it 's your un they used to call him Trot , my uncle , it 's your uncle Trot that named them and I said was it and it was a till lock and they could n't get them right er they were having trouble with these particular till locks , and er my uncle said to Mr when he went around they were having trouble and he said , all these locks all these things are good for a bait for Salmon and then they were called Salmon Bait and they were traded as Salmon Bait so |
| 26 | Naturally , Armstrong was the perfect vehicle for transporting a hit team , especially if they were dressed as policewomen . |
| 27 | The suggestion is often made that a couple should not be treated as if they were living as husband and wife unless the man is actually giving the woman financial support . |
| 28 | In such practices the links , for example , between food rioting for " just prices " and persisting in lighting bonfires in public places on 5 November even if they were regarded as " nuisances " by authorities , are evident . |
| 29 | He could say sentences which would have been preposterous if they were seen as rhetoric but which he could carry because they were delivered with uproarious humour — ‘ Liberalism prolonged one 's youth , Liberalism did not decay ’ . |
| 30 | As long as new measures of social policy in these areas could be presented as solutions to an inner city problem they stood a greater chance of popular acceptance than if they were seen as no more than further attempts to rid the nation of the welfare state legacy of the post-war era and the dependency mentality that went along with it . |