Example sentences of "as [pers pn] was [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 | 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 . |
| 8 | The local slave trading and mercantile community was loud in its support for Harris ' intervention and happy to see , at this early stage of antislavery mobilisation , its interests defended quite as much in general scriptural terms as it was on the broad basis of national interest and community prosperity . |
| 9 | He might have an interesting tale to tell but it could probably be told in the space of thirty minutes and on later meetings hauled out and paraded again exactly as it was on the first occasion . |
| 10 | To pass beyond it is to cross the threshold into another dimension which , for all its pragmatic gifts to the West over the centuries , remains as mysteriously little-known to us now as it was for the first explorers . |
| 11 | Distressing as it was for the Victorian establishment to contemplate having descended from monkeys , it would not be long before new advances in physiology and biochemistry revealed that we virtually are monkeys — differing from the chimpanzee , for instance , by a single chromosome in our genetic code . |
| 12 | Watercolour ‘ is as valuable in recording the urban landscapes of today as it was for the rural watercolourists of the 19th century ’ , reports RICHARD S TAYLOR , as he sets out to paint a timeworn French townscape . |
| 13 | The spontaneity of watercolour painting is , I believe , most conducive to recording this type of scene , where fleeting effects of moving light can be captured with a few quick washes and blots , and is as valuable in recording the urban landscapes of today as it was for the rural watercolourists of the 19th century . |
| 14 | Watercolour ‘ is as valuable in recording the urban landscapes of today as it was for the rural watercolourists of the 19th century ’ , reports RICHARD S TAYLOR , as he sets out to paint a timeworn French townscape . |
| 15 | The spontaneity of watercolour painting is , I believe , most conducive to recording this type of scene , where fleeting effects of moving light can be captured with a few quick washes and blots , and is as valuable in recording the urban landscapes of today as it was for the rural watercolourists of the 19th century . |
| 16 | Again the warning is vital as it was for the last two techniques . |
| 17 | It is their village now , just as much as it was for the old village families . |
| 18 | Obviously , when sport offers itself as one of the few accessible routes away from deprivation , as it was to the early slaves , it takes on an attractive quality . |
| 19 | What they would not accept was that vain and dreadful C.P. Snow , whose appointment as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Technology was as insulting to the scientific community as it was to the Labour Party . |
| 20 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that unambiguous communication is just as important now as it was during the cold war , and perhaps even more important ? |
| 21 | Stone shows no awareness of the place of the Royal Commission 's recommendations within the politics of the postwar debate on the disintegration of the family , which was almost as much a preoccupation of the 1940s and early 1950s ( the Commission was set up in 1952 ) as it was during the 1980s . |
| 22 | The view that duties were being swamped by particular interests , each wallowing in an orgy of rights , was common among the Idealists , as it was among the New Liberals . |
| 23 | In my judgment the fallacy behind this submission lies in the fact that the principle of A. v. Liverpool City Council [ 1982 ] A.C. 363 and the other cases cited relate to the law as it was before the substantial changes introduced by the Act . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | erm One very important house is erm what is now the Newman Mobray Bookshop , and that of course is still very much as it was in the 17th Century . |