Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [was/were] [adv] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The change was widely reported as bringing into question the government 's commitment to the phasing out of nuclear energy by 2010 , as approved in a 1980 referendum [ see pp. 30335 ; 30994 ; 34831 ] . |
| 2 | Only the Lithuanians accounted for so large a proportion of the population of their own republic , and the measure was widely seen as blocking rather than facilitating a transition to fully independent status . |
| 3 | The birds were still singing as she made her way slowly to the cars . |
| 4 | And there were reports from many parts of the Reich that ‘ a newsreel without pictures of the Führer was not regarded as up to standard ’ . |
| 5 | Notwithstanding Gore 's insistence that his decision was based on personal considerations , the decision was widely seen as of great political significance . |
| 6 | The control of the grid is vital to the operation of the electricity industry , and the decision was also seen as being a good indication of the . |
| 7 | But after August 23 he no longer wanted to continue ; the present was best forgotten as soon as it slipped into the past . |
| 8 | The proposals were widely regarded as unrealistic , with adverse criticism ( at varying strengths ) from the Law Society , the Lord Chancellor 's Advisory Committee on Legal Aid , NACAB , the Legal Action Group and others . |
| 9 | In Hong Kong itself the political model put forward by the subcommittee was generally regarded as inadequate and designed to permit little more than token democracy . |
| 10 | The budget was widely criticized as being unrealistic and irrelevant to the real needs of the eastern economy . |
| 11 | The stock was always conceived as essentially complementary to the house 's fine interior , with the result that it retained a domestic atmosphere . |
| 12 | The driver of the car was today named as Jason Penter , ( 24 ) of Keymer Court , Burgess Hill , West Sussex , who had only recently bought the BMW . |
| 13 | The car was then marketed as ‘ Lagonda , designed under the supervision of W. O. Bentley ’ , but the flood of orders could not be met owing to the postwar shortage of steel . |
| 14 | The result was widely interpreted as marking a decisive shift within the electorate , since the end of the Cold War , away from the traditional isolationism based on neutrality . |
| 15 | It was acknowledged that some of the party 's previous policies had been potentially divisive , and the review was widely seen as both an attempt to attract new voters and as a means of attracting potential coalition partners from among the opposition parties . |
| 16 | The target date for establishing the repository was also attacked as unrealistic ; the earliest any burial could begin would be 2010 , the report said , more than three years after the date set by nuclear waste disposal company Nirex , which is to build the repository . |
| 17 | Radiographs of the knees were erroneously interpreted as showing osteochondritis dissecans . |
| 18 | So the the inspectors were actually graded as well . |
| 19 | Setting out into the desert was still regarded as important . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , the fact that he sought re-election to the legislature was widely interpreted as indicative of a desire to use his influence — he was thought to have maintained an overall majority in the new House — to secure the presidency for his friend and colleague , Vice-President Teatao Teannaki , the elected member for Abiang . |
| 21 | In the pre-war world which informed Beveridge 's design for the Social Insurance system ( Beveridge , 1942 ) , a woman 's labour force career usually ended upon marriage and work outside the home was normally treated as incompatible with domestic duty . |
| 22 | The majority of the routes on the Ormes were not climbed as sport climbs , but as traditional routes where the second played a crucial role . |
| 23 | The consultant was visibly shaking as he described how the 12-year-old victim had sustained severe head and facial injuries . |
| 24 | According to leaked Cabinet documents , planned compensation would total £135 million , although the farms were currently valued at £850 million , and the proposal was inevitably seen as posing a threat to the position of the country 's white farming community . |
| 25 | Since the animals had been stolen from Anuradhapura , the descriptions were not recognized as those of stolen animals , and the system continued undetected |
| 26 | ’ The child was still crying as Alan sat down with him , but he grasped greedily for the milk . |
| 27 | Only 1,200 people voted in the elections , but the process was traditionally regarded as important since election to Chambers of Commerce and professional associations represented the sole form of democratic practice in the occupied territories [ see p. 38788 for Gaza elections in January and February ] . |
| 28 | Two other youths seriously injured in the accident were today described as ‘ stable ’ in hospital . |
| 29 | The move was generally seen as intended to draw centrist voters away from the conservative parties in the 1993 elections . |
| 30 | The move was widely described as marking the culmination of the " rejuvenation " of the SPD which , despite its poor performance in the December 1990 general election [ see pp. 37904-05 ] and dissention within the party during 1990 over unification , was currently in government in 10 of the 16 Länder . |