Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] as it was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We knew , just by looking at it , there was no way we could do the scene exactly as it was written , so we compromised . |
| 2 | He gave the market a stimulus just as it was starting to recover , a stimulus it did n't need . |
| 3 | The present generation of British and American literary Marxists remind me of the small boy in Joyce 's story , ‘ Araby ’ , who got to the bazaar just as it was closing . |
| 4 | I would argue that the introduction of literate/pre-literate as the criterion for making such a division has given the tradition a new lease of life just as it was wilting under the powerful challenge of recent work in social anthropology , linguistics and philosophy . |
| 5 | The interior shows the basic form much as it was built , though it has been stripped of its decoration . |
| 6 | Thus the individualist ethos which characterized the social relations at the workplace in the Dukeries was as much a survival mechanism developed by the miners for the competitive milieu underground as it was imposed by the employers . |
| 7 | But she trusted him , saw the way he handled it through the bends , fed the power in as it was required , was part of the hurtling machine that he controlled so gently . |