Example sentences of "and [was/were] [verb] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were given permission and were destroyed as the herd of pigs drowned in the lake . |
| 2 | She believes that junior doctors could be empowered by longer contracts and proposes that house jobs should be arranged in one year ( or even 18 month ) blocks within single or closely linked units , so that the doctors felt and were recognised as an important part of the service provided . |
| 3 | They were declared in run-down industrial and/ or commercial areas , and were seen as a means of stabilizing economic activity . |
| 4 | Local politics were considered to be an extension of philanthropic work , and were seen as an extension of women 's domestic sphere . |
| 5 | The Rules for the Sunday School were reaffirmed in 1862 and were used as a basis for the new Sunday School started in Edenderry in 1867 . |
| 6 | Significantly the policies stressed the importance of local initiatives , and were offered as a decentralized alternative to the centralized bureaucratic planning of national government . |
| 7 | CFCs were developed in the 1930s and were hailed as a triumph of science — they were cheap , non-flammable , non-toxic and reacted with very few other substances . |
| 8 | In the run up to the Great Exhibition of 1851 he produced sample sheets with a watermarked light and shade portrait of Queen Victoria : later these exquisite watermarks became part of his stock-in-trade and were described as a ‘ degree of perfection … the quintessence of the papermaking craft ’ . |
| 9 | The expected organism was grown from the original site of minor surgery on her back and was confirmed as a type of S aureus producing toxic shock syndrome toxin I. Isolation of such a toxin is diagnostically helpful , but there is substantial evidence that other staphylococcal enterotoxins contribute to a high mortality . |
| 10 | Zhu Rongji , the only one of the three new standing committee members with thorough reformist credentials , was a former mayor of Shanghai and was appointed as a Vice-Premier and economics expert at Deng 's behest in April 1991 [ see p. 38145 ] . |
| 11 | She stood for Parliament , unsuccessfully , as a pacifist Labour candidate in the general election of 1918 , and was appointed as an alderman to Battersea borough council in 1920 . |
| 12 | Heng Samrin retained his post as President of the State Council and was appointed as the party 's " honorary president " . |
| 13 | He was ill at ease with the gentleman scientists of his day and was treated as a mere technician by many . |
| 14 | It became the second great text and was to last as an authoritative collection for all Roman Catholics until the revision of the canon law in 1918 and the publication of the Codex . |
| 15 | Together with some other Christian communities , we had bought some land outside the city and some 300 families went to live and farm there , It was called " El Paraiso " and was organized as a co-operative with all the work and profits shared , It was my idea of a truly authentic community . |
| 16 | Kagemni , who was the vizier of the Sixth Dynasty king Teti , was buried in a fine tomb at Saqqara near the pyramid of his king and was revered as a sage . |
| 17 | Then later , in the Possessed notebooks , we read : ‘ Bazarov was created by a man of the 1840s , and was created as a figure without affectation , which means that a man of the 1840s could not create Bazarov without violating the truth . ’ |
| 18 | The library encouraged in many children a desire to read and was seen as a general benefit to the community and not just as a benefit to the Sunday School . |
| 19 | The only existing course , of 2 years ' duration , in the methodology of French teaching , was open only to those students who already had an A Level in the subject , and was seen as a holding operation . |
| 20 | The case centred on the constitutional validity of a restrictive abortion law passed by the state of Pennsylvania and was seen as a fundamental test of the beleaguered 1973 legal precedent Roe v. Wade , the basis of legal abortion in the USA . |
| 21 | Motherwell regretted the scope of his literary outpourings in later life , and was seen as an unnecessarily literary figure by fellow artists . |
| 22 | Louis XVIII , another restored monarch , accepted a constitution in 1814 on condition that the constitution was reasonably ‘ balanced ’ and was seen as an act of grace by the crown and not as an imposition upon it . |
| 23 | Although he had served as Reagan 's chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission since 1982 , Thomas was a critic of the quota system for employing racial minorities and was seen as an opponent of affirmative action . |
| 24 | Dehaene , 51 , came from the trade union wing of the Flemish Christian Socials ( CVP ) ; he had negotiated the formation of the last coalition in 1988 [ see pp. 36047-49 ] and was seen as an expert mediator . |
| 25 | As Jo Grimond he was MP for Orkney and Shetland for thirty-three years and was seen as the last traditional Liberal . |
| 26 | For one thing he had discharged himself from the army and was listed as a deserter ; for another , he had a wife and two children ‘ somewhere in Norfolk ’ . |
| 27 | And the John Lennon hit single ‘ Imagine ’ has been played simultaneously on more than a thousand radio stations worldwide ; it was one of the tributes on what would have been the ex-Beatle 's fiftieth birthday , and was played as an anthem to world peace . |
| 28 | He is in her close circle of trusted friends and was named as a major source for Andrew Morton 's book Diana : Her True Story . |
| 29 | RIGHT This Norfolk Terrier may look like a ‘ toy ’ dog , but like all terriers it is a first-class ratter , and was developed as a working dog on farms . |
| 30 | He started his own practice in the following year , and was employed as a surveyor by the builders Grissell and Peto on Hungerford Market . |