Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun pl] be [vb pp] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the WEA Districts were represented as were the major philanthropic trusts which supported educational enterprise . |
| 2 | Elsewhere , at Bristol , London and especially at Oxford , for example , the partner WEA Districts were recognised as organising bodies for adult education provision and in these three universities financial support for District work was provided by the extra-mural departments . |
| 3 | An all-out attack on NPFL positions was reported as imminent . |
| 4 | An upper house provided for representation on a regional basis , which ANC officials were quoted as saying could be combined with a system of representation according to political party . |
| 5 | for the Falkirk Boroughs is reported as " just now receiving a very fair share of abuse from a number of Scottish newspapers , some on personal grounds , others political . " |
| 6 | On the same page , evidence from the Paston Letters is rejected as ‘ dialectal ’ , and the Diary of Henry Machyn is rejected on the grounds that Machyn was a Yorkshireman . |
| 7 | UN officials were quoted as saying that the Sudanese government had allowed the international relief operation to be recommenced following pressure from donor governments . |
| 8 | It seems unlikely that the individual older person will have much greater say in the decision about entering care when the Griffiths reforms are implemented as the ‘ power ’ will be placed with the case manager not the older person . |
| 9 | Nucleic acid and protein contents and plasma CCK values were expressed as mean ( SEM ) whereas those of BreUrd labelling index and PCNA labelling index were expressed as medians . |
| 10 | Hong Kong officials were quoted as saying that none of the deportees , the first to be sent back since Patten 's arrival , had offered resistance . |
| 11 | Another two CEM members are reported as detained . |
| 12 | On March 31 , Sierra Leonean commanders were reported as saying that 2,150 men of the 3,000-strong national army had occupied part of Lofa County in Liberia . |
| 13 | Within the industry , Swithland Motors is recognised as one of the fastest growing dealerships in the country and its success is partly explained by its female sales force . |
| 14 | In rural areas , ANDES members were established as leaders of the radical opposition to the regime and in the 1972 elections were fundamental in organizing support for the opposition coalition , the UNO . |
| 15 | For some weeks , it seemed that the joint US/NZ resolution on drift-netting would founder in the mire of State Department compromise , as successive US proposals were rejected as too weak by the New Zealanders . |
| 16 | Between 400 and 500 Iraqi troops were reported captured during the fighting , while 31 US personnel were described as missing or captured , including a female Marine who was thought to be the first US woman soldier to be captured by an enemy force . |
| 17 | US losses were given as 79 killed , 213 wounded , 45 missing and nine captured ; UK losses as 16 killed in action ( including nine from US fire but excluding a further eight who died in accidents or from illness ) , 31 wounded , 12 missing and two captured ( officially amended on March 8 to 17 killed and 43 injured with eight servicemen still missing ) ; French as two killed in action and at least 25 wounded ; one Italian pilot was killed and another captured . |
| 18 | ‘ US accountants are sued as routine for fraud in a negligence claim , ’ says Tim Lawrence of Coopers ' litigation support department , ‘ so practically all the big firms are liable for triple damages . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Rosa scandens and R. sempervirens were classed as ‘ climbing shrubby plants ’ alongside ceanothus and jasmine , as well as with ‘ hardy greens ’ like holly , phillyrea and viburnum . |
| 21 | The two specific areas which are currently under consideration are Sentence Planning and Pre-release Programmes and SCOTVEC modules are seen as being central to these initiatives . |
| 22 | The contacts between the Lemass and O'Neill governments were seen as having been brought about by pressure from Britain , and as a result ‘ O'Neill has got his orders to play down discrimination ’ . |
| 23 | EC stocks were reported as amounting to 100 days of consumption , implying a need for action . |
| 24 | Special tax rules may apply in an off-market purchase of shares in an unquoted company ( USM companies are treated as unquoted for these purposes ) which is a trading company or a holding company of a trading company . |
| 25 | Paul Reed Smith guitars are acknowledged as some of the finest produced anywhere today , and Guitarist 's Guitar Of The Year will be a classic ! |
| 26 | As might have been expected , the larger exhibitions attracted considerably more visitors than the smallest exhibition , but all three received a generally favourable response from the public , with both the Carlyle and MacLean exhibitions being rated as Very Good or Good by at least 90% of those who saw them , and with 78% of those who saw the Skinner exhibition giving it similar ratings . |
| 27 | When Jun-Core mutants were assayed as DNA-PK substrates , low substrate concentrations were used ( approximately 30 ng per reaction ) . |