Example sentences of "as [pron] [was/were] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even I could n't blame him for the phone ringing just as I was at the front door . |
| 2 | She had never been so aware of anyone as she was of the powerful man who had entered her life so abruptly . |
| 3 | She was unbearably aware of the tensile strength of his incipient beard beneath the shaven smoothness of his jaw , just as she was of the aroused hardness of his body , controlled , contained but testifying to his rampant masculinity in a way that was driving her to abandon the last remaining threads of self-control . |
| 4 | Then the tense silence was broken by a frightened whimper from Louise , held helpless as she was by the paralysing steel-fingered grip on her neck . |
| 5 | And Anna was getting restive , dazzled as she was by the new prospect . |
| 6 | It was not her first transatlantic flight , as she was in the French team last autumn in Washington , New York and Toronto , where Miss Ledermann rode her into second place in the World Cup round , behind Britain 's Tina Cassan and Genesis . |
| 7 | We have always in Czechoslovakia been proud of being Europeans , as we were before the First World War and between the wars . |
| 8 | But we may expect in the long run to become as comfortable in the new clothes as we were in the old . |
| 9 | Inside there are three naves , as there were in the original church , and several fine paintings . |
| 10 | There is no provision in the rules as there was in the 1952 Rules for searches for prior petitions in county courts to see if the debt has been paid , but the Practice Direction refers to carrying out these searches and the certificates to be endorsed on the petition of their result . |
| 11 | At the start of the second world war , there was an enormous expansion in the Territorial Army , as there was in the first world war . |
| 12 | There is a world recession today as there was in the 1930s . |
| 13 | There was a great variety in the six plays performed , as there was in the medieval plays ; some were pious and some funny , some incorporated music and dancing . |
| 14 | and within the last say twenty five years there 's been a dramatic change in the young people 's way of thinking , maybe more of them have gone to university than they did the previous twenty five years and that there is such a difference now than there was that I mean for instance if there was a war there would n't , there would be far more conscientious objectors than there ever was before far more than erm young man saying no I 'm going to fight for my country , be patriotic I do n't think you would find , for instance , the youth of this country so patriotic as they was in the last war , your country needs you . |
| 15 | He remembered the release he had felt when he had first heard the teachings of Akhenaten , which had cut away the rotten trappings of the old beliefs , festooned as they were with the cynical speculation of the priests . |
| 16 | At Penywaun , years later , he told me about John Evans and his sister as they were at the first two decades of this century : I sensed as a boy they were unusual but now I recognized how different they were . |
| 17 | As Sawyer and Darton wrote so tellingly in English Books : ‘ The Running Stationers , as they were at the last called , bore a light but precious fardel : just the Short History of the English People — no more . ‘ |
| 18 | Nigel 's arrangement of the white slaves , as he called the domestic machines , positioned as they were on the first floor , entailed many journeys upstairs to inspect their progress . |
| 19 | Presumably cars from 36–40 were chosen for these experimental features as they were on the newest trucks . |
| 20 | They are just as wrong on this occasion as they were on the previous one . |
| 21 | We will make sure , too , that imports are reduced to the same levels as they were under the Labour Government . |
| 22 | The present arrangements for representations are as they were under the Labour Government , which means that publicly funded representation , as opposed to advice , is available only from the UKIAS . |
| 23 | This is an extremely bold theory , but in the present stage of historical and anthropological knowledge it is not possible to say whether Marx of Engels were clearly wrong , as they were over primitive promiscuity , or by and large right , as they were over the gentile constitution . |
| 24 | Though Christie 's says that the Vung Tau sale is lotted to encourage private buyers , with sets of between five and nine matching vases offered per lot ( and designed to be shown , as they were in the 17th century , massed together on a chimneypiece or high shelf ) , Cohen believes buying is more easily done through a dealer . |
| 25 | Indeed the majority of the section numbers are the same as they were in the 1893 Act . |
| 26 | What has surprised me , and is different from my understanding of processes as they were in the middle 1970s when I last worked in and on North Shields , is the centrality of land and development to an understanding of that place . |
| 27 | Few people are offended today , as they were in the last century , by the thought of man and the chimpanzee being classified together by virtue of a common ancestor which has been extinct for probably more than three million years ! |
| 28 | Women are not debarred from any legal statuses which are held by men , as they were in the last century . |
| 29 | In India , army officers in the Company 's service were advanced by time promotion , mitigated in some degree by considerations of evident merit , and commissions were not openly bought and sold as they were in the British army . |
| 30 | It is a pity that Michael Coe 's essay on Maya hieroglyphs is not illustrated , but he makes the interesting point that vessels appear to be labelled much as they were in the classical world of the Mediterranean . |