Example sentences of "were [vb pp] as [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently , new union-based structures ( 'factory councils ' ) were developed as organisations of the shop stewards , to be directly representative of the rank and file . |
| 2 | Despite John 's wishes , when the company was finally registered only Jennie and Doris Alloway were listed as directors with Mr Smith as secretary . |
| 3 | It was characteristic that he stuck into his scrapbook not only the programme of that performance and the rave review from Dance News , but also such memorabilia as publicity photographs and sketches about the clothes and accessories which all the women in the company were given as ambassadors of British fashion , and , significantly , the handsome illustrated brochure of Balanchine 's School of American Ballet . |
| 4 | Some of these responsibilities were undertaken as agents of the central government Department of Transport , with agency arrangements also in force with District Councils in the corresponding administrative area . |
| 5 | Most were expelled to Senegal , where more than 50,000 were registered as refugees in camps in the north , with a further 30,000-40,000 living in Senegal unregistered . |
| 6 | Sentences like " Jones exists " were dismissed as cases of bad grammar on the grounds that the use of the proper name already dispensed with any services that the predicate " exists " might provide . |
| 7 | Games were organised as curtain-raisers before major soccer matches , and experts provided the crowd with a running commentary of the action on the Tannoy system , a habit preserved to this day . |
| 8 | It was also noted that the more visitors were sought as resources for various parts of Christian Aid , the more the danger of eroding the original purpose : to work with and energise local supporters in the UK & Ireland alongside the Area Staff . |
| 9 | Kraft records that ‘ even the most theological portions ( e.g. Romans ) participate in the ‘ eventness ’ of the facts that they were written as letters from specific persons to specific persons to meet specific needs ’ ( Kraft 1979:128 ) . |
| 10 | These and others were named as Members of the new London Passenger Transport Board in May 1933 , but moves had been taking place behind the scenes from the beginning of the year . |
| 11 | 3T3 cells were grown as monolayers in flasks , collected by trypsinization and allowed to stand at 4°C for 2h before incorporation into reaggregates . |
| 12 | There are a number of arches extant which were built as entrances to towns or bridges , or formed part of the fortified town walling . |
| 13 | They were built as convertibles with full-drop windows , hence the seats made of rattan cane . |
| 14 | In a world of TV , anonymous journalism probably could not have survived : when we see a face , we want a name ( besides , print journalists were needed as guests on TV current affairs shows ) . |
| 15 | In others , the economic function will have followed in the wake of a variety of other causes , as when sites were founded as vici outside forts or posting stations or as administrative centres in the new local and provincial hierarchy . |
| 16 | Most of the leading Conservatives who might have hoped to succeed him were disqualified as supporters of the Lloyd George Coalition , and the succession went to the relatively unknown Chancellor of the Exchequer , Stanley Baldwin . |
| 17 | In Russia the latter element was uppermost , and peasants were conscripted as sailors in very much the same way as for the army . |
| 18 | Although neither was an art movement in any conventional sense , they were both launched as aesthetic revolutions which were scheduled as critiques of everyday life ; and in this they were both surprisingly successful . |
| 19 | Peter Clark has shown that at least half the Gloucester men and women who were called as witnesses in church courts during the early seventeenth century were first generation immigrants . |
| 20 | Rectal reflex contractions elicited upon distensions were detected as deflections in rectal CSA , but no clearcut relation to the distension pressure could be established . |
| 21 | More senior posts were employed as tools of patronage at a higher level , for they might be the object of the ambition of a substantial freeholder with his own political interest , whose support might be of value to the Administration directly . |
| 22 | These moulds were found as holes in the ash by the nineteenth century excavators , and they discovered that by pouring in a setting compound such as plaster of Paris they could obtain a complete three dimensional cast of the original corpse . |
| 23 | Throughout the 1920s they were acknowledged as leaders of national status and by 1939 each was at the head of his political movement : though in the case of Jinnah some thought he was past his prime . |
| 24 | The Winneba Ideological Institute and the party newspaper The Spark were viewed as instruments of international Communism , but were not particularly effective . |
| 25 | Members of the foreign press were allowed as observers for the first time and ‘ dialogue ’ was the stated aim of the congress and also of the CPPCC to follow . |
| 26 | Forty years later these factors were identified as bits of chromosome , and a century later as molecules of DNA . |
| 27 | Even ignoring the fact that they were meant as definitions of natures or essences , Gassendi finds something wrong with the idea of finding universal propositions for the premisses of a scientific syllogism . |
| 28 | Undifferentiated ( UF9 ) and differentiated ( DF9 ) mouse F9 embryonal carcinoma cells were maintained as monolayers in 10% fetal bovine serum ( FBS ) on standard tissue culture dishes coated with 0.1% gelatin ∼300 bloom from porcine skin ( Sigma G-2500 ) . |
| 29 | The Mill Yard , the derelict former mill and the associated mill pond in Scorton were mentioned as examples of what should not be allowed to happen . |
| 30 | in 1906 , while 61–70 and 71–75 were purchased as additions to the fleet as traffic grew . |