Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adv] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even if magnetic fields could confine the wind , the hot gas pressure would be expected to build until it was episodically released as in a pressure cooker . |
| 2 | When the draft report was issued in May , it was universally welcomed as heralding a major step forward in the way that UK listed companies should be run . |
| 3 | Six days later it was officially listed as missing and frantic bosses sent out a fax to signalmen : |
| 4 | The legend , ‘ Doniert rogavit pro anima ’ carved upon it was generally interpreted as , ‘ Doniert entreats prayers for his soul ’ . |
| 5 | It was also seen as inflicting profound effects on individuals ' lives . |
| 6 | It was already buckling as the executive transporter moved remorselessly nearer . |
| 7 | It seems clear then that the Formalist position on all these issues ( authors , reality and ideas ) is not just an arbitrary preference , but that it stems from the concepts of defamiliarisation and literariness , whose differential basis will always serve to define literature in opposition to the things that it was traditionally viewed as expressing . |
| 8 | Parliamentary and media responses to the Report varied greatly , although it was widely seen as making an important contribution to the debate about how to respond to the riots and prevent the outbreak of violence in the future . |
| 9 | It was widely regarded as presaging a new era of more co-operative meetings between the leaders of the two governments . |
| 10 | It was widely misinterpreted as suggesting that small firms were particularly important in the process of job generation . |
| 11 | It was simply described as ‘ sensitive ’ . |
| 12 | It was sometimes described as Congregationalist and sometimes as Baptist and did not insist on adult baptism . |
| 13 | Even when The Lost Prince was first published it was often criticised as sentimental but the richness of the story depends on its emotional tone , on the strands of love , devotion and dependence in Marco 's love for his father and on the underlying sense of honour which is communicated in different ways by Lorestan , Marco and the Rat . |
| 14 | It was precisely defined as comprising all of the three features : pain in the lower chest or upper abdomen , a tender spot ( or spots ) on the lower costal margin ( including the xiphoid ) ; reproduction of the pain by pressing on the spot . |
| 15 | By the later decades of the century it was becoming obvious that the numbers of many species were being rapidly diminished , and it was now regarded as ‘ unsporting ’ to amass the vast collections of trophies favoured by earlier hunters . |
| 16 | It was now criticized as anachronistic , and the German government had signalled for some time its concern over rising costs and their justifiability at a time when German unification put great strains on the public finances [ see also pp. 37212 ; 38508 ] . |
| 17 | It was still taken as self-evident in even the most up-to-date fiction that being in love normally had only one outcome , marriage . |
| 18 | In due course it was bred a little shorter in the leg , with finer bone and a better udder , though it was still disparaged as being rather ungainly and plain . |
| 19 | Although amber can no longer be regarded as among the more precious substances , it was certainly rated as precious in former times . |
| 20 | Why it was ever identified as seaside air is a mystery . |
| 21 | It was obviously written as encouragement to the soldiers and families separated during the long years of the Second World War , but it seemed to express the yearning that so many young men must have felt when they were far from their families , desolate and frightened : |
| 22 | One complication that we see raised with Samson Agonistes , is that a text 's success in fulfilling the conditions of its chosen genre , in this case classical tragedy , may help to render it unsuccessful in terms of the way it was originally envisaged as intervening aethestically in its contemporary history . |