Example sentences of "which was [adv] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her whole being seemed to be pervaded by a dreamy languor , a torpid drowsiness , which was barely disturbed as his hand closed over her wrist . |
| 2 | The move also followed the passing of budget resolutions by the House of Representatives on May 1 and by the budget committee of the Senate on May 2 , both of which embodied much deeper cuts in military expenditure than those contained within the Bush budget , which was increasingly viewed as obsolete because of its failure to address the implications of the radical change in Eastern Europe . |
| 3 | These results indicate that the P1 strain which was previously identified as S.solfataricus should belong to S.acidocaldarius . |
| 4 | Bulgaria 's lack of a democratic tradition and organization was a stumbling block for the main opposition grouping , the Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) , which was also seen as striking too negative a tone in its campaign , and as having made a tactical error in spending time campaigning abroad , thus exacerbating the UDF 's image as a party of the intellectual urban elite . |
| 5 | Paul Lozano , 28 , in his fourth year at Harvard Medical School , took a huge cocaine overdose which was officially ruled as accidental . |
| 6 | But even this low figure , which was officially quoted as being the number of entrants , did not properly represent the situation . |
| 7 | The new council set up to reform the judiciary fell under the control of the Supreme Court , which was generally seen as being heavily under the influence of Cristiani 's right-wing ruling National Republic Alliance ( Arena ) . |
| 8 | There was an " alternative Left " surfing mainly among the ruins of the ILP and in the Labour League of Youth which was generally described as " Trotskyist " by its opponents in the mainstream of the Left . |
| 9 | Following the abolition of the Council for Environmental Quality [ see ED 67 ] , which was widely criticized as ineffective , President Clinton has announced the establishment of a new Office on Environmental Policy , based in the White House . |
| 10 | For Mrs Thatcher and her government , antagonism towards the miners in part reflected a desire for revenge against the union which was widely perceived as precipitating the political crisis which led to the downfall of a previous Conservative government , led by Edward Heath , in 1974 . |
| 11 | The case had been brought by the CDU which was widely perceived as anxious not to lose votes to the Republicans [ see below ] . |
| 12 | The Canadian Senate , which was widely perceived as being in need of reform , had possessed a solid Liberal majority as a legacy of 21 years of almost uninterrupted Liberal government which had ended in 1984 . |
| 13 | In Byelorussia , which was widely regarded as retaining one of the most conservative republican leaderships , it had been decided to allocate a quota of reserved Supreme Soviet seats for official organizations ( a practice applied in the March 1989 elections to the USSR Congress of People 's Deputies but since labelled undemocratic and abandoned for national elections — see p. 36978 ) . |
| 14 | In 1970 , the Library Association produced the first set of specific standards for school libraries that Great Britain had ever had , embodying the library 's new name , and including an analysis of implications for finance , planning , staffing and service which was immediately recognized as being incomplete . |
| 15 | One of the aims of the review was to produce a formula which was empirically based as opposed to the original RAWP formula , which included standardised mortality ratio as a proxy for need on theoretical grounds . |
| 16 | Planning and control in ‘ real money ’ — cash limits The first significant change from PESC volume control which was broadly recognized as having failed , came with the widespread introduction of cash limits . |
| 17 | B Ltd installed four mezzanine floors , one of which was subsequently dismantled as storage methods changed . |
| 18 | No composer was considered worthy of the name until he had written an opera , which was then regarded as representing the peak of musical achievement . |
| 19 | The story is a fascinating description of relatively uninformed risk-taking and opportunism coupled with technological advantage which was only seen as marketable in the United States after the products initially offered in the US market had failed . |
| 20 | The emphasis of the legislation , as of philanthropic effort , was upon the removal of the child from a corrupting environment , rather than upon improvement within that environment which was still seen as too intractable a task . |