Example sentences of "[adj] was [vb pp] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was accepted as a small price to pay for having the wide range of voltage output , and unless a load situation arises which takes a rapidly fluctuating current from some low value up to beyond 3A at the 15V point , the performance of the unit is quite satisfactory . |
| 2 | This was printed as a limited edition of seventy-five copies for private circulation in 1876 , and a second edition limited to a hundred copies appeared in 1893 . |
| 3 | When performed , this was analysed as a censored event in life table analysis . |
| 4 | This was seen as a first step towards integrating the Soviet economy with international financial institutions , although this did not permit Soviet participation in GATT 's current multilateral Uruguay Round of trade discussions . |
| 5 | This was seen as a slight restriction of the doctrine when it was imposed in Church ( 1966 ) , where the court held that ‘ The unlawful act must be such as all sober and reasonable people would inevitably recognize must subject the other person to , at least , the risk of some harm resulting therefrom , albeit not serious harm . ’ |
| 6 | In addition it was proposed that payment to GPs should be based far more on the size of the doctor 's patient list , as this was seen as a good proxy for assessing how hard doctors work . |
| 7 | US President Bush pledged a fresh US$645 million in humanitarian aid ( subject to approval by Congress ) , while Baker announced that 54 emergency airlifts of food and medicines from the USA would begin on Feb. 10 , although this was seen as a symbolic gesture rather than as a viable solution to the problem of food shortages in the CIS . |
| 8 | Burgoyne and Clark ( 1984 ) report that this was seen as a major reason for returning to live with parents after the break-up of a marriage , and the assistance which grandparents gave with child care in the short term was seen as vital in helping their daughter or son to re-establish themselves economically and to form new relationships . |
| 9 | Shortly afterwards Toyota announced plans to establish an engine plant in Shotton , North Wales and this was seen as a further sign of confidence in the British economy . |
| 10 | This was seen as a sensible up-grade path for LORASS . |
| 11 | The king 's next relapse resulted in permanent disability ; this was regarded as a divine punishment for his early excesses . |
| 12 | This was regarded as a great boon by Evangelicals , who dreaded sudden death without the benefit of the clergy and their prayers . |
| 13 | This was included as a positive outcome for the English applicant . |
| 14 | Thus in Aldridge v Johnson ( 1857 ) 7 E & B 885 there was an agreement to transfer 32 bullocks valued at £192 in return for 100 quarters of barley valued at £125 , the set off of £23 to be paid in cash ; this was construed as a reciprocal sale ( see also Forsyth v Jervis ( 1816 ) 1 Stark 437 ; Sheldon v Cox ( 1824 ) 3 B & C 420 ) . |
| 15 | At first this was interpreted as a separate medusa-like form , but it appears in a number of specimens in just such a position and some now think that it may have been a holdfast . |
| 16 | Originally , this was proposed as a two-year project but we have been asked to manage the Initiative until March 1991 . |
| 17 | One of the triplets developed diabetes at the age of 13 while another was diagnosed as a juvenile diabetic at 21 . |
| 18 | Eventually , after prolonged discussion , the following was agreed as a working definition : |
| 19 | Winchester Group Ltd. was incorporated as a private company on 24 August 1989 . |
| 20 | Orthodox Christmas on Jan. 7 was celebrated as a public holiday for the first time since the arrival of communist rule in the Russian Federation , the Ukraine , Byelorussia , Georgia and Moldavia , with the endorsement of the USSR government . |
| 21 | The truce of 1921 was attacked as a typical piece of Lloyd George chicanery , and it needed all the efforts of the party leaders to stop the party from breaking up the government there and then . |
| 22 | Detection of H pylori by at least two of these was considered as a true positive , and its absence in all biopsy specimens as a true negative . |
| 23 | At its southern end it turned sharply eastwards to cross the street described above , and possibly to link with yet another running south-west from the Tiddington road ; it has been suggested that the latter was constructed as a short cut to Ryknild Street and skirted the southern suburb . |
| 24 | The ascension of Sidney Poitier in the '60s was perceived as a major breakthrough but it was not until the ‘ blaxploitation ’ films of the '70s ( such as ‘ Shaft ’ and ‘ Superfly ’ ) that there was any talk of an indigenous black cinema . |
| 25 | Disraeli 's Government of India Act of 1858 was introduced as a direct result of the Indian Mutiny , and as a consequence of the administrative changes brought about by that Act , Scott 's brief was considerably extended . |
| 26 | He was also a man who got on well with almost all his associates , and his early death in 1854 was seen as a great blow to natural history . |
| 27 | Her three children , now 15 , eight and six , were handicap enough , but the fact that her last job as a bookkeeper was in 1983 was seen as a severe liability . |
| 28 | In 1857 he published a pamphlet Model Schools — a Sketch of their Nature and Objects , and in 1868 was called as a leading witness to the royal commission on primary education ( Ireland ) . |
| 29 | When two or more persons took as tenants in common , the share of each was treated as a separate item of property which could not only be transferred by him in his lifetime , but which would pass on his death to his representatives . |
| 30 | In November India 1990 was elected as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for 1991 . |