Example sentences of "was [verb] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour 's advance — one of the biggest post-war election swings — was checked as the Tories held Basildon in Essex and Battersea in south London . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ I want to know from the Chancellor why the Ministerial rules were not observed ; why the Law Officers were not informed immediately of the legal action which cost the taxpayer £4,700 ; whether the Prime Minister was consulted as the rules suggest he should be — and whether the permanent secretary to the Treasury was told about the source of the gift of the £18,000 . ’ |
| 3 | In Northern Ireland , its impact was limited as the newspaper circulates among the minority community and has a reputation for anti-British bias . |
| 4 | The British Isles became , in 1941–43 , a giant aircraft-carrier punished by German raids but giving more than was received as the air war was intensified by 1943 . |
| 5 | RISC I was developed as the university believed it was feasible to build a single chip computer faster than the Digital Electronics Corporation 's VAX-11/780 , a CISC design . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll give you your letter back , miss — unread , ’ the police-sergeant told Rosalind , with a grin , ‘ but I 'd like to keep the envelope , please , because it 's got a nice glossy surface and the man your sister saw stealing bulbs has left two lovely big fingerprints on it , which may or may not enable us to find out who he is , but will certainly prove whether the gardener who was sacked as the thief is innocent . |
| 7 | The silence was broken as the telephone rang and he said , ‘ I must go . |
| 8 | He was crushed as the stolen car tried to make its escape . |
| 9 | The vast mountaintop panorama was forgotten as the focus of the world shrank to six inches away from his nose . |
| 10 | He was wounded as the marines opened fire . |
| 11 | a proposed meeting between officers of the Board and the LEA was cancelled as the county council had no clear policy over adult educational provision and the only result of the proposal was confirmation of the LEA 's existing policy of specific grant-aid . |
| 12 | We followed the programme devised centrally , which proved to be a bonus when companies wishing to link into more than one school could identify readily what was happening as the process was common to each school . |
| 13 | When pressed by Jeremy Corbyn ( Labour ) about the department 's perceived shift towards means-testing and away from the universality he replied this was expected as the Labour party was also re-examining its commitment to universality — as John Smith has said ‘ nothing was ruled out and nothing was ruled in ’ . |
| 14 | On 3 June , the fortress of Przemysl was retaken as the Germans thrust east toward Lemberg . |
| 15 | Nothing more was said as the small tailor was accompanied to Egham Police Station and subsequently to Windsor . |
| 16 | The Grand Met offer was made as the two companies were negotiating the sale of the William Hill chain of betting shops , which Brent Walker has agreed to buy for £685m . |
| 17 | In the late eighteenth century the three-storey pedimented mill was built as the weaving became fully industrialised . |
| 18 | Goes in high towards Collimore who turns to the referee and claims that he was pushed as the corner came over . |
| 19 | He was gawking at the beautiful red and silver machine which was revealed as the tarpaulin fell away . |
| 20 | The fragility of a national peace pact , signed in April between the government and Tuareg rebels [ see p. 38853 ] , was revealed as the government came under attack following the killing of Tuaregs . |
| 21 | And last week part of this was revealed as the group turned in 1991 pre-tax profits 5pc down on 1990 to £251m . |
| 22 | The row was sparked as the French head of state went on national TV to declare any attempt to delay signing up to the Maastricht Treaty by Mr Major would be ‘ unacceptable ’ . |
| 23 | All heaven was hushed as the maiden heard the annunciation from God 's messenger that she would bear God 's child . |
| 24 | But it was postponed as the court was told that reports on the 49-year-old quack doctor were not ready . |
| 25 | This was needed as the heat was draining the walkers very quickly . |
| 26 | At no point , however , did the USa rule out direct military action against Iraq , although US successes at the United Nations [ see p. 37640 below ] meant that the bellicose tone of its initial response was moderated as the month passed . |
| 27 | The analysts encountered many problems in the process of bridging this gap , but each problem was addressed in turn and an appropriate solution found , generally by making imaginative use of computer software to record and manipulate the mass of data that was produced as the analysis progressed . |
| 28 | Action was promised as the minister said , in October nineteen ninety two by the former chancellor when the Bingham report was published , but I believe that these proposals are under the bear minimum requested by Bingham and they hardly live up er to the er minister 's announcement at the beginning of his speech . |
| 29 | I felt that my running was improving as the season progressed and that I was in with a chance . |
| 30 | The air was improving as the recyclers filtered out the stench and the smoke . |