Example sentences of "as it [was/were] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A somewhat different case is García Márquez 's One Hundred Years of Solitude which recounts the history of the small town of Macondo , not so much as it actually happened , but as its inhabitants experienced and interpreted it and as it was transmitted by popular oral tradition . |
| 2 | The former is of unusual design as it was built in two storeys ( largely in the fourteenth century ) , one church above the other . |
| 3 | This statement needs treating with care , as it was written after 1016 , by an annalist rather free with allegations of treachery , who was aware of Eadric 's defection to Cnut in 1015 . |
| 4 | But as it was accepted into this relatively formal literary genre , [ h ] -loss seems to have been much less overtly stigmatized than it is today . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , I believe that in its veiled way , the report is a very proper indictment of the drama scene — as it was perceived by these three sharp young people in 1974–75 . |
| 6 | The issue is the people 's right to choose their representatives and to hold them accountable ; and , in this English context , Parliament has already become the focus of the struggle for democracy , as it was to remain in subsequent centuries . |
| 7 | Which was pretty odd as it was fixed with one of those fancy knots which simply ca n't pull out . |
| 8 | Emanuel Hospital , as it was called for two and a half centuries , lived quietly in Westminster into the nineteenth century and until a more elaborate scheme was developed by the Endowed Schools Commission . |
| 9 | Throughout the post-war period , there has been an increase in the numbers dependent on means-tested national assistance , or , as it was called from 1966 , supplementary benefit . |
| 10 | In some quarters it was counter-productive , as it was seen as naked lobbying , and in others it was applauded as a justifiable counter-offensive against an ill-founded doctrine . |
| 11 | He coaxed it along with flawless control of line and colour as it was developed with equal measures of logic and charm . |
| 12 | The court heard how the river turned a milky white colour as it was contaminated with toxic residue from shampoo , moisturiser , and hair lightener products . |
| 13 | Possibly the building industry was one of the most substantial in the country , but as it was based on small local units it is virtually impossible to study . |
| 14 | Kinnock 's modernisation did not go far enough , as it was based on old-style labourism and single-party arrogance . |
| 15 | As a consequence , the eubacterial rooting previously obtained from ATPase evolution is inconsistent as it was based on phylogenetic trees in which these two paralogous families were mixed in single trees . |
| 16 | The initial distribution between capitation and other expenditure followed an incremental approach as it was based on previous patterns of expenditure . |
| 17 | Sabraxis had given him a schedule to work through , most of which he knew already as it was based upon traditional pieces . |
| 18 | Fasting is prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those before you , so that you may guard ( against evil ) Surrah 11 , 183 |
| 19 | It was an arguably effective method of achieving both killing and disposal of the body — probably ensuring that the perpetrator remained undetected — to load the victim into an escape pod which was destined to be destroyed as soon as it was tracked by any of the platforms in orbit . |
| 20 | This effect gathered force as it was incorporated into political strategy , picked up by other media , entered into gossip , and thus came to overshadow immediate reality as it might have been recorded by an observer on the scene . |
| 21 | By 1914 the terms of a possible compromise were emerging , by which Unionists would accept Home Rule and Liberals would agree to exclude Ulster ; argument continued over the exact size of an excluded Ulster and the length of time involved in exclusion , but the logic of the negotiations pointed to this settlement in 1914 just as it was to do in 1921–22 . |
| 22 | I read in Coldwater Answers about Mr. Belsey , who was having problems protecting the pond from herons , as it was surrounded by crazy paving . |
| 23 | As it was tabled on 17 December , has the Leader of the House had time to reflect on early-day motion 424 in the name of a former Law Officer , a former Home Secretary , myself and 41 colleagues ? |
| 24 | By contrast Engels 's position was that the family , as it was known in his time , had not always existed in that form , that marriage as it was known at that time had also not always existed . |
| 25 | The overall loss of reading time , and even the loss of the reading habit as it was known to earlier generations , should not be underestimated . |
| 26 | Archer Road or ‘ The Street ’ as it was known by all who lived in it , was a bit like the curate 's egg : bits of it were good and bits of it were bad , very bad . |
| 27 | She uses only the pinhole camera or , as it was known in pre-photographic times , the camera obscura . |
| 28 | He considers that the nineteenth century cases of Camplin , Flattery and Williams accomplished no more than to include within rape sexual intercourse with an unconscious woman or one deceived by a specific type of fraud and that the 1976 Act merely declares the law as it was established at that time . |
| 29 | The differences in electrophoretic mobility between the pre-Β 1 and mature Β 1 chain were probably due to structural differences in the glycan portion , as it was abolished after enzymatic deglycosylation of the receptors in normal epithelial cell membranes ( data not shown ) . |
| 30 | In the light of that , will he reconsider the abolition of vacation hardship allowance , especially as it was abolished in clear breach of undertakings given in the House that it would remain as a safety net following the abolition of social security provision ? |