Example sentences of "[was/were] there as [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not that they were there as a punishment , just that the cellar was their living room ( a common arrangement in the back-to-backs of Bradford where most Asian families live ) . |
| 2 | If one regards the benefit in this light I can not see that the cost incurred in , or in connection with , the provision of the benefit , can properly be held to include the cost incurred , in any event , in providing education to fee paying pupils at the school who were there as a right in return for the fees paid in respect of them . |
| 3 | Well I never took that er er as a stance erm bearing in mind that er we were there as the bulwarks to defend the interests of the membership in general . |
| 4 | Society was there as a backdrop to drama , melodrama if you like , and that drama could only be presented in terms of individual destinies which had to be resolved satisfactorily in the film itself . |
| 5 | Yet Elizabeth had been a widow for over ten years , and her children were very nearly off her hands ; it is quite possible that her brief sojourn in the workhouse was part of an attempt to give her life a new direction and meaning — perhaps she was there as a helper , a visitor , a counsellor to those in need , or even as a missionary spreading the gospel of Christianity in general or that of the Lady Huntingdon 's Connexion in particular . |
| 6 | Mister was associated with the theatre from its very beginning in 1914 when , on the opening night , he was there as a pageboy , until his retirement in 1974 . |
| 7 | Sara recalls , ‘ She was there as a mother . |
| 8 | At the same time it should be remembered that over the centuries , exiles and deportees have only accounted for a tiny fraction of the total population of Siberia , the vast majority of which was there as a result of voluntary emigration , fortune seeking or the process of natural procreation . |
| 9 | Perhaps Rourke was there as an ideas man — certainly he did n't show much enthusiasm for getting into the nitty-gritty of the day-to-day workload . |
| 10 | He would probably think something had happened to his mother and that Lewis was there as the bearer of bad news . |
| 11 | I was there as the arbitrator , supplying the breakfast . |