Example sentences of "as [pron] [was/were] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And Anna was getting restive , dazzled as she was by the new prospect . |
| 3 | Eternal values can also be sought in art , as they were by the French art historian Élie Faure , whose open mind accepted disparate arts , a view which he expressed like this : ‘ It is not paradoxical at all to affirm that an Ivory Coast mask and the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel express the same need to manifest a harmonious rapport which exists between mankind and the universe . ’ |
| 4 | This may in turn have caused the forelegs of prosauropods ( the Triassic forerunners of sauropods ) to become more massive , stimulated as they were by the repeated dropping onto all fours when moving slowly . |
| 5 | But , as we have seen , other products of social organisation , such as seals and medallions , can have this quality too and , in the right conditions , may be aptly considered more reliable , as they were by the medieval knights . |
| 6 | The challenge from the Nonpossessors , viewed sympathetically as it was by the land-hungry Grand Prince and aristocracy alike , had frightened the Josephites too much for that . |
| 7 | One of my lasting impressions as an undergraduate studying at the London School of Economics in the early 1960s , dominated as it was by the Popperian conception of science and the quest for a Positive Economics , was of the great gulf that was fixed between the two worlds of social science and religious belief . |
| 8 | But mere geographical distribution can not sufficiently bring out what was increasingly the dominant fact about the academic life of our period , namely the hegemony of the Germans , backed as it was by the numerous universities using their language ( which included those in most of Switzerland , most of the Habsburg Empire and the Baltic regions of Russia ) , and by the powerful attraction exercised by German culture in Scandinavia , eastern and south-eastern Europe . |
| 9 | Our evaluation therefore owes much to the assumptions , concepts and procedures of the " new sociology of education " of the early seventies , inspired as it was by the social phenomenology of Alfred Schutz ( 1964 ) and Berger and Luckmann ( 1967 ) , and the Symbolic Interactionism of G H Mead ( 1934 ) and Erving Goffman ( 1959 ) . |
| 10 | The death of Christopher Wandesford in December 1640 was ‘ the beginning of troubles in our family ’ , followed as it was by the public catastrophes of the Irish rebellion and the English civil war . |
| 11 | It was n't the issue that did the damage , however , but Kinnock 's apparent shiftiness , mocked as it was by the celebrated Patten-Heseltine Hinge and Bracket act . |
| 12 | He was feared as much by the family ( owing to a vicious temper ) as he was by the young men of the district . |
| 13 | When the Devil was driven from the centre of the Divine Drama , as he was by the medieval scholastics , he resurfaced elsewhere among the superstitious beliefs of medieval Europe , where he remained despite the Reformation . |