Example sentences of "as [was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In our poorer ‘ black ’ communities the killing continues and as many people are killed every week as were killed in the recent Los Angeles riots . |
| 2 | A putative theory of science based only on description would be open to some of the same objections as were levelled against the naive inductivist account of how scientific theories themselves are arrived at . |
| 3 | As was argued in an earlier research report by Vasquez and others : |
| 4 | That is as absurd a political point as was made by the right hon. Member for Manchester , Gorton , ( Mr. Kaufman ) . |
| 5 | So , recognising that there are limits to the exercise of this inherent jurisdiction , I agree with Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. that I can conceive of no situation where it would be a proper exercise of the jurisdiction to make such an order as was made in the present case : that is to order a doctor , whether directly or indirectly , to treat a child in a manner contrary to his or her clinical judgment . |
| 6 | The scale of Herbert 's power in Wales made his removal a major set-back to royal influence there , as was indicated by the immediate flare-up of trouble in the north and west of the region . |
| 7 | The scale of Herbert 's power in Wales made his removal a major set-back to royal influence there , as was indicated by the immediate flare-up of trouble in the north and west of the region . |
| 8 | Less and less did Nonconformists like to have it said of them as was said of the Primitive Methodist evangelist and erstwhile coal-miner , James Flanagan , ‘ He waited not for an abundance of knowledge but used what he possessed ’ . |
| 9 | As was said by the Royal Commission , the police should not , on a warrant to search for a stolen grand piano , look under the floorboards or in the water cistern . |
| 10 | As was said in the introductory section , it is not feasible for the government to direct the firm to produce specific quantities at specific prices because the government necessarily knows less than the firm about underlying demand and cost conditions . |
| 11 | As was said in the classic authority , Andrews v DPP [ 1937 ] AC 576 ( HL ) , " simple lack of care as will constitute civil liability is insufficient " . |
| 12 | As was said in an earlier case , an employee in this position : |
| 13 | As was noted at a recent conference ‘ Cooperatives are real work … not just a day out at a course ! ’ . |
| 14 | As was noted in the previous chapter , the drive towards increased efficiency has led to the wholesale substitution of capital for labour in agriculture . |
| 15 | As was explained in the first chapter , it would be very difficult to construct a complete unified theory of everything in the universe all at one go . |
| 16 | As was explained in the previous chapter , the architecture of upper-class housing itself became increasingly divisive . |
| 17 | We are investing enormous sums in training , in enterprise and in vocational education — two and a half times as much , after taking account of inflation , as was invested by the Labour party when it was last in government . |
| 18 | That premised the understanding of design as a means to understanding design-and-society relations as a means to reconciling the rupture that was evident between design as is and its public position and design as felt , or intuited , or could be — or as was necessitated by the possible changes in social structure occurring , in accelerating form , in the new configurations of late capitalism . |
| 19 | There was a gang of kids playing up on the embankment , just as Preston and William had , junior hangers-on , rookie spear carriers in the terrible Derek Sumter gang which had once ruled the neighbourhood , so far as was tolerated by the greater power of the nans . |
| 20 | This importance was partly strategic : by walling off the Isthmus ( land narrows ) of Corinth , as was done in the Persian Wars and again in the hellenistic period , the Peloponnese could be turned into an island , or a tortoise with its head tucked in , as the Roman commander Flamininus put it . |
| 21 | As was seen at the recent September Gala the old gentleman is feeling his age and his appearance on the Sunday was only possible after herculean efforts on the part of the staff who had to work on a hot locomotive , in the most trying conditions , to ensure an appearance at the Gala Weekend . |
| 22 | But , as was seen in the last section , deindustrialization can be measured in different ways . |
| 23 | As was seen in the previous section , the legal ingredients of the offence were successively whittled away so that public alarm became of relative insignificance , although the offence was apt to be charged in cases of group disorder . |
| 24 | First , commercial convenience dictates that the law is frequently more concerned with the objective appearance of agreement rather than the actual fact of agreement , as was stated in an 1871 judgment : |
| 25 | The historian of these events believes that the CNAA may not have shown sufficient flexibility : ‘ if the same attitude as was adopted in the early 1970s by its new Chief Officer , Edwin Kerr , had been taken , amalgamation might have occurred sooner ’ . |
| 26 | Participation is an easier word to use than to implement , as was discovered by the would-be implementers of the 1969 Skeffington Report , and by many idealistic councillors in the 1980s . |
| 27 | It is a powerful argument , as was demonstrated by the heated responses it provoked . |
| 28 | These points may be particularly relevant in any future plans to absorb parts of legal aid work into generalist advice centres , as was suggested in the Legal Aid Scrutiny Report by the Lord Chancellor 's department in 1986 . |
| 29 | As was suggested in the previous chapter 's discussion of the Nicholson crusades in the 1920s , there is a well-observed connection between political instability and religious revival , if the culture is already religious . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , as was suggested in the last chapter , it is often difficult to decide on whether a word should be treated as complex or simple . |