Example sentences of "as it [was/were] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once changes have been made it is just as important to observe the modified unit in action as it was to conduct the initial trials . |
| 2 | Dalziel did n't mind being invested in as long as it was done the right way . |
| 3 | Dangerous as it was to betray the smallest complicity before Goreng and his goons , we both started to laugh . |
| 4 | For the Elizabethan magus John Dee ( 1527–1608 ) , it was as imperative to study the specific characteristics of everything in nature as it was to understand the controlling influence of the stars . |
| 5 | Yes , in that sense , in that sense , the unconscious thought was expressed but the , but the point was , i the anxiety as it were got the better of the dream , did n't it , if you woke up ? |
| 6 | If we have a principled way of discerning the stable sub-assemblies , thereby distinguishing them from merely arbitrary collections of parts , then we can as it were see the evolutionary pedigree of a complex structure . |