Example sentences of "as it [was/were] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Arab world was alarmed at the implications of the new Cabinet for the peace process , formed as it was at a time when the USA was considering breaking off its 16-month dialogue with the PLO , following the abortive raid on the Israeli coast on May 30 [ see this page for breaking off of dialogue on June 20 ] . |
| 2 | Faith coming before and bringing about healing is as real to many Christians today as it was at the time of the Gospel . |
| 3 | ( It does seem a little perverse of EMI to have included with these discs the specification of the Sainte-Trinité organ as it now stands rather than as it was at the time these recordings were made . ) |
| 4 | Yet to mere man , Venice stands today on a group of islands at the head of the Adriatic very much as it was at the time of the great Doges . |
| 5 | I now had a settled crew and witnessed the steady improvement in the PFF methods , but very much trial and error as it was at the time , although in keeping with the Harris momentum . |
| 6 | Went through Section Head of various departments and became the A M S there or M P S as it was at the time . |
| 7 | The rebuilt barn had been laid out just as it was at the time of the fire in January last year . |
| 8 | In January 1219 the sheriff of Huntingdon was ordered to see that the Forest was kept as it was in the time of King John : the perambulating jury was summoned before the Council , amerced and imprisoned . |
| 9 | Across the road from the churchyard is Poosie Nansie 's pub , the setting for Burns 's poem ‘ The Jolly Beggars ’ , and is as welcoming today as it was in the time of Scotia 's bard . |
| 10 | The problem of fertility is as unsolved as it was in the time of Aristotle , and the principal bugbear is lack of cooperation . |