Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , due to the short notice , Randalstown would have been without four key players on May 15 which was pencilled in as the reserve date . |
| 2 | Their park was given over as a whole for building development , and laid out on the gridiron pattern in the middle decades of the eighteenth century . |
| 3 | There was a uniformed constable by the bed all the time , but David Evans was hanging about as an unofficial extra . |
| 4 | President Arístides Maria Pereira announced at an extraordinary congress of the PAICV on July 26 , 1990 , that he was stepping down as party leader as a first step towards the ending of one-party rule , declaring that the President had to be above party politics . |
| 5 | On May 16 Karl Otto Pöhl , 61 , announced that he was stepping down as president of the Deutsche Bundesbank , although his second eight-year term [ see p. 35724 ] was not due to expire until end-1995 . |
| 6 | It was announced on Sept. 19 that a senior Exco member , Dame Lydia Dunn , was stepping down as head of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council and would be succeeded on Oct. 1 by Victor K. Fung , chairman and chief executive officer of Prudential Asia Investments Ltd. |
| 7 | In December 1991 had Jawara announced that he was stepping down as President , a position which he had held since independence . |
| 8 | Labour demanded his resignation after the LAS Board chairman , Jim Harris , announced he was stepping down as an inquiry blamed management failures over the £1.5 million computer-aided despatch system ( CAD ) . |
| 9 | Rigney , the strong redhead , had to return home for the tour and Donal Lenihan was flown out as his replacement . |
| 10 | This house , full of perspectives and privacy , was shaping up as a mother , as well as a mistress and a wife . |
| 11 | For about the first 12 years of its existence the centre was carried on as an unincorporated organisation . |
| 12 | This operation was carried out as the only possible way of dealing with the menace of the drug dealers . |
| 13 | The initial study was carried out as the practical project for my MSc course in 1987 . |
| 14 | The PKK had denied responsibility for a bomb which caused one death in Istanbul on Jan. 25 , claiming that it was carried out as a provocative act by a " counter-guerrilla " force . |
| 15 | The survey was carried out as part of the government 's Food Advisory Committee 's review of food labelling . |
| 16 | ( Though in fact by this time , " tramping " was dying out as a practice and craft mobility with it . ) |
| 17 | Thus it was looked on as ‘ the all important matter ’ . |
| 18 | It was looked on as a very serious offence . |
| 19 | It was looked on as not advisable to deal with it under the Liverpool Corporation Act . |
| 20 | You 've got to remember that at the time , deregulation was looked on as an open cash-register . |
| 21 | The ‘ victory ’ rally in Sheffield was picked out as a turning point in the party 's fortunes . |
| 22 | He explained that a couple of centuries ago the course was leased out as a rabbit farm and , well , ever since , the creatures have been hopping wild across the four courses . |
| 23 | In the 1980s Britain was coasting along as the fourth-largest west European R&D spender on space — behind France , Germany and Italy . |
| 24 | Her hair was messed up as if she 'd come straight from bed , and her cheeks despite the coolness of the day were flushed as if she 'd recently made love . |
| 25 | Counterbalancing this , however , the company 's financial viability has been boosted by the fact that investment by previous owner TI Group Plc was written off as part of the buyout deal . |
| 26 | The whole of the first year was written off as a ‘ shambles . ’ |
| 27 | Fred Dunston ( Fritz Deutsch ) , a Youth Allyah worker and former Scout leader from Vienna , was drafted in as an organiser of the transit camp , which was to be built on a large meadow across the road from the training centre at Great Engeham Farm : |
| 28 | There was a brief pause , then Rosemary was rushing on as if fearful that they would be back before she had said what she 'd rung up to say , which was , ‘ Can I ask a favour , Leith ? ’ |
| 29 | The back flap of his breacan-feile was drawn up as a hood over his head against the weather . |
| 30 | The report was drawn up as part of the evidence in the recently completed court case against Exxon [ see ED no. 45 ] . |