Example sentences of "were [vb pp] as [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four players were listed as unavailable through injury for the Scotland team : Alan Watt ( who has resumed training ) , Rob Wainwright , Dale McIntosh and Alan Sharp . |
| 2 | A history of previous leg ulceration , varicose veins , DVT , major surgery , past leg injury and pregnancy were given as predictive of venous disorders ; rheumatoid arthritis , diabetes , hypertension , stroke , intermittent claudication and smoking as predictive of arterial disease . |
| 3 | It was remarkable that in the Archidamian War the Peloponnesians abstained from destroying those Attic olive trees which were regarded as sacred to Athena ( Androtion F 39 ) . |
| 4 | Only a few places , such as the Bay of Naples and Capri , already established thanks to the patronage of the Russian Empress , were regarded as tolerable in the hot season . |
| 5 | Indeed , even spatial configurations were regarded as temporal by nature , as is indicated by the role of the gnomon . |
| 6 | All the leading candidates were regarded as acceptable to the Army and to the business elite which had effectively run the country since the military coup of 1954 [ see pp. 13677-81 ] . |
| 7 | Not the eccentric , inexperienced Czar , nor the ageing Kutusov , whilst the Austrians , after their debacle at Ulm , were regarded as unworthy of serious consideration . |
| 8 | A one-year emergency development programme presented to aid donors in Paris in September projected export earnings of 1,000 million birr for 1990 , but the estimates were regarded as optimistic in view of the worsening famine situation . |
| 9 | These findings suggest that , at the time of the act , helping agencies were regarded as irrelevant to what the person wanted to achieve , or unhelpful on the basis of previous experience of them . |
| 10 | In 1985 , over 400,000 people were registered as unemployed in Greater London , and while its unemployment rate of 11.5 per cent was below the national average , registered unemployment in Tower Hamlets , for example , reached 21 per cent . |
| 11 | In January 4,365 people were registered as unemployed in Darlington . |
| 12 | Remarks made on June 19 by Jacques Chirac , mayor of Paris and leader of the Gaullist Rally for the Republic ( RPR ) , were attacked as racist by Cresson , who had already accused Chirac of plumbing racist feeling in order to win over voters from the far-right National Front ( FN ) . |
| 13 | In the light of this model other areas were investigated including Wales ( Brown , 1960 ) , where the major upland surfaces were visualized as equivalent to the late Tertiary surface of southeastern England . |
| 14 | Pituitary scans were reported as normal in 11 cases and as showing an empty sella in one , a microadenoma in 18 , and a macroadenoma in six ( table I ) . |
| 15 | Companies that were seen as vulnerable to a Labour victory led share prices upwards . |
| 16 | Any increases in spending on education were seen as insufficient by staff and students alike at major universities . |
| 17 | The value-science integrate was socially situated in that the values were seen as specific to a given social structure . |
| 18 | In 1651 Alice married William Thornton esquire of East Newton , Yorkshire , son and heir of the late Robert , whose parliamentarian connections were seen as useful to her Royalist family . |
| 19 | Even in the Biblical record drugs were considered as inextricably linked with ( harmful ) spiritual power and as such were seen as susceptible to permanent cure . |
| 20 | Once the initial problems encountered in the trial were sorted out , the results were seen as suitable for general dissemination . |
| 21 | The rapid changes at the Interior Ministry were seen as indicative of tribal and political rivalries within the government . |
| 22 | Obviously vocational guidance , registration , and placement of school-leavers involved more than just the organization of the labour-market ; they were seen as essential to the incorporation of working-class adolescents into what influential social theorists were calling ‘ the community ’ . |
| 23 | So far as the curriculum was concerned , the policies and practices of many LEAs were seen as detrimental to quality . |
| 24 | The latter was less crudely hereditarian in emphasis and in keeping with the Keynesian optimism of the 1940s — less pessimistic , in that problem families were seen as amenable to character reform through intensive social work intervention . |
| 25 | The objection was not to his mode of teaching , but to his association with intellectual forces which were seen as foreign to the task of " upholding the canon of English literature " . |
| 26 | UDF posters showing mass graves recently unearthed [ see p. 37381 ] were seen as distasteful by much of the population . |
| 27 | The discussions were seen as preliminary to the Government policy paper on criminal justice . |
| 28 | The official ‘ tests ’ were seen as important from the point of view of accountability , but not of teaching . |
| 29 | The conventions say little or nothing about actual combat , and were seen as supplementary to the 1907 Hague Regulations , which remained in force . |
| 30 | Paper rounds in particular were seen as significant in these respects . |