Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] be [vb pp] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her warlike appearance dates only from the next century and is very much a creation of the Restoration court , where she was developed as a symbol of the victory of the British in the Dutch Wars . |
| 2 | Wearing a smart , grey check suit Mrs Davies explained how she and Gilfoyle met at the Murrayfield Hospital where she was employed as a food service assistant . |
| 3 | Especially that part where you were described as ‘ the wife of top industrialist Julius Landor . ’ |
| 4 | Given the large crowds , moreover , professional soccer provides a context where it is relatively easy to escape detection and arrest , and last but not least , a group of outsiders , the opposing team and its fans , comes regularly into the home territory where they are perceived as invaders and targets for attack . |
| 5 | This gourami is found in quiet waters of S.E. Asia , where they are eaten as a valuable source of protein . |
| 6 | Your Tyre-Track Eel , Mastacembelus armatus , is from South East Asia , where they are used as food . |
| 7 | Where they are used as the basis of inter-country comparisons , which is by far the most common use that is made of them , they predispose the results of such comparisons to certain conclusions which are usually prejudiced by unspoken theory-laden assumptions . |
| 8 | Water-fleas ( Daphnia ) , blood-worms and a few other kinds of small animal can be purchased cheaply from aquarists ' shops , where they are sold as live food for tropical fish . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I had seen them in Kano clutching their swords as they slept in shop doorways where they were employed as night-watchmen . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He acquired his interventionist leaning at Harold Wilson 's Industrial Reorganisation Corporation , where he was recognised as an up-and-coming young manager by Lord Kearton , the charismatic chairman of Courtaulds . |
| 14 | James Halden returned to a tall , red-brick house in Clerkenwell , a private asylum where he was employed as permanent physician . |
| 15 | The offender arranged for the two girls to swim at a local swimming pool where he was employed as a cleaner after it had closed . |
| 16 | He travelled widely throughout the Balkans , then went to Vienna in 1771 , where he was employed as a language teacher . |
| 17 | His apprenticeship over , Bridge migrated to London about 1776 , where he was employed as a shopman by Pickett & Rundell , goldsmiths and jewellers , at the Golden Salmon , Ludgate Hill . |
| 18 | Where he was injured as a result of equipment having such a defect , he had the onerous task of suing the manufacturer of the equipment under the defective products rule . |
| 19 | He collapsed and became unconscious , so he was taken by ambulance to hospital , where he was admitted as an emergency . |
| 20 | As a result of his nation-wide notoriety , Jeffrey was persuaded to become a public exhibit in London theatres , where he was shown as ‘ Jeffrey the Sailor ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ We first chatted on a roller skating rink , where he was chosen as the best boy skater , and I was the best girl . |
| 22 | He was also a member of the royal chapel choir , where he was classified as a taille or tenor . |
| 23 | Fifteen yeomen were stated to be in the service of some lord or other , four being ‘ reteyned ’ by them ; six acted as bailiffs of townships , and the remainder were simply ‘ servants ’ , like Christopher Lacy of Riddlington , ‘ Seruant in the Howsehold w the Lord Hastings ’ , who had £15 in goods , reduced to £8 in the subsidy , where he was described as husbandman . |
| 24 | Young people do n't want to enter a hotel as a waiter or bar person , because of the demeaning stigma attached to the job , unlike Greece , Italy or Spain where it is regarded as a worthwhile career . |
| 25 | Example 104 is taken from Percy Scholes 's Oxford Companion to Music ( 8th edn ) , where it is quoted as music which ‘ abandons all pretence of key in any strand whatever ’ , and is therefore completely atonal : However , far from being atonal , the upper part is very clearly in G minor — ; G being merely a substitution note for A , on which it resolves ( an octave lower than usual ) . |
| 26 | This phenomenon also arises in the field of insurance where it is known as adverse selection . |
| 27 | In southern France , where it is known as pistou , it is often an accompaniment to roast lamb . |
| 28 | This is a game played by most children in West Africa , where it is known as warri or by other local names . |
| 29 | The new product was tested in 1988 and launched in the UK in 1989 and has since been launched in Ireland , Australia and in Canada and the USA , where it is known as Pub Draught Guinness . |
| 30 | To harden a royal icing , for instance where it is used as part of a structure or decoration , a tiny amount only of acetic acid or cream of tartar could be added . |