Example sentences of "[Wh det] was [vb pp] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Granby House is a seven-storey building of 1908 which was built as a cotton warehouse . |
| 2 | ‘ At Sedgebrook , ’ wrote Willingham Franklin Rawnsley , ‘ is a farmhouse which was built as a manor house by Sir John Markham when he was Lord Chief Justice of the King 's Bench . |
| 3 | At the head of the municipal square is the City Hall ( Câmara Municipal ) which was built as a private residence for the Conde ( Count ) de Carvalhal at the end of the eighteenth century . |
| 4 | The City marked DK shares down by 41p on the day the results were announced , in reaction ( or overreaction ) to the company 's warnings about the overcrowded UK children 's books market and to reports ( or misreports ) of DK 's decision to delay selling certain titles to the US discount warehouses , which was misrepresented as a decision to stop selling to these altogether . |
| 5 | All of these procedures could be carried out using data which was generated as a matter of course . |
| 6 | At the heart of the 1982 dispute was a so-called pay factor for public services of 4 per cent , which was intended as a marker for pay rises to those working in all public services . |
| 7 | The Urban Programme consisted of grants and initiatives under the 1969 Local Government Grants ( Social Need ) Act , which was intended as a flexible instrument to provide supplementary help to local authorities in the fields of housing , education , and health . |
| 8 | The most potent and best tolerated derivative in the class was 1-cyclopropyl-6-fluoro-1,4-dihydro-4-oxo-7-(1-piperazinyl)-3-quinoline-carboxylic acid ( 10 ) , which was developed as a broad spectrum chemotherapeutic agent under the generic name ciprofloxacin ( see Scheme 2 ) . |
| 9 | In its extreme form , this is an expression of the Unique Selling Proposition , or USP , which was developed as a philosophy by Rosser Reeves of Ted Bates in the USA . |
| 10 | Worknet is the trading name of the Falls Development Agency Ltd , which was incorporated as a company limited by guarantee in October 1988 . |
| 11 | There was , moreover , a considerable amount of discretion in terms of what might count as ‘ violence ’ in a street robbery , and it seems likely that street robbers were more commonly charged with ‘ bag-snatching ’ which was regarded as a less serious offence than ‘ robbery with violence ’ . |
| 12 | The Edinburgh journeymen compositors had succeeded in 1803 in their appeal to the courts to sanction a document known as the Interlocutor — an extraordinarily complicated scale of piece-work rates — which was regarded as a great victory . |
| 13 | There was debate in 1990-1991 over proposals for the modification of the 1982 Constitution , which was regarded as a legacy from the period of military rule . |
| 14 | Once , this head felt , it was simply education which was regarded as a universal blessing . |
| 15 | Malaysia was the first ASEAN country to open a diplomatic office in the southern city , which was regarded as the country 's commercial capital and where , according to the VNA report , " a number " of Malaysians were " doing business " . |
| 16 | Valeriu Pescaru , nominated as a Cabinet-rank Secretary of State responsible for the privatization of agriculture , was a member of the small Democratic Agrarian Party , which was regarded as an NSF satellite . |
| 17 | It had to do with his insistence on using ‘ real ’ people , which was seen as a daunting prospect by many of the crew . |
| 18 | All of which contrasts with his definition of the law of value , which was seen as a spontaneous phenomenon or mechanism , which acts ‘ behind the backs of the participants ’ , where there are market controls , rather than being controlled . |
| 19 | Suddenly before the altar a ‘ light shining from heaven , in the manner of a sunbeam ’ appeared , which was seen as a sign of divine approval of Stanford 's opposition to Edward II and the Pope , who had deposed him from the bishopric of Durham . |
| 20 | The impetus behind the NBA was the problem in Victorian times of widespread and severe price cutting in the retail book trade , which was seen as a threat to the viability of booksellers and publishers . |
| 21 | In the ancient goddess religions , snakes were the special companions of women , symbols of sexuality , linked through the shedding of their skins — which was seen as a form of rebirth — with women 's creative and reproductive powers . |
| 22 | Vice-President Virgilio Godoy stated that the murder , which was seen as a setback for the attempt of President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro to promote national reconciliation , should not go unpunished and would have to be solved " even if this has to be done outside government institutions " . |
| 23 | The verdict followed a three-day jury trial in a civilian court which was seen as a test of the ability of the judicial system to end the effective immunity of the armed forces from human rights charges . |
| 24 | Our joint submission to the National Council for Vocational Qualifications ( NVCQ ) was duly approved and work commenced swiftly to implement this new venture , which was seen as a positive and exciting contribution to the Government 's radical reform of vocational education . |
| 25 | CLEARANCE was given yesterday to regional electricity companies in England and Wales to go ahead with plans for gas-fired power plant in a judgment which was seen as a further setback for the coal industry . |
| 26 | Both Mr. Bennet and Elizabeth accept that Mr. Wickham would only have agreed to marry for £10,000 which was seen as a vast amount of money in those days . |
| 27 | Land reform as outlined in the Agrarian Reform Bill of nineteen fifty was to provide a vital step forward for China through the preservation of the rich peasant economy in order to pave the way for industrialization which was seen as a prerequisite for collectivization . |
| 28 | Imprisonment for ordinary civil debt was abolished by statute in 1970 — another hundred years had had to pass since the enactment of the 1869 measure which was seen as the triumph of liberal attitudes over the centuries-long stand of the powerful trader lobby . |
| 29 | Thus the high-modernist building was able simultaneously to enshrine a notion of pure rationality in systems-building , pure formalism in its opposition to ornament , pure functionality which was seen as the basis of its aesthetic value , and pure style . |
| 30 | In the context of the mobilisation and assertiveness of organised labour under Heath 's government , the industrial policy proposals became charged with a stronger element of workers ' control which was seen as an essential component of the ‘ planning agreements ’ to be made with large enterprises , and vital to their enforcement . |