Example sentences of "[adv] as it was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interior shows the basic form much as it was built , though it has been stripped of its decoration . |
| 2 | But — so long as it was made clear that this was a genuine option , and entirely voluntary — we are in favour of lenders in this country at least recommending insurance and pointing out its advantages . |
| 3 | The commodity might have been hides , jade , tobacco , salt or precious metals , so long as it was accepted as a means of discharging obligations . |
| 4 | He agreed to do homage so long as it was spelt out that Aquitaine should belong to him and his heirs for ever . |
| 5 | Ruotolo apparently submitted , but then published a pamphlet attacking current exegesis , especially as it was taught at the Biblicum . |
| 6 | George felt uncomfortable at this declaration , especially as it was made in a steady and unemotional voice , far removed from the previous frantic outburst on the day she had left the farm . |
| 7 | He evidently considered that gain to be worth the negative propaganda value of a militarily minor defeat , especially as it was portrayed as a defeat for the Italians , not for the Nationalists . |
| 8 | You ca n't ignore it it 's the first thing a buyer will , a buyer 's survey will pick up , especially as it was mentioned in our survey |
| 9 | In the light of that , will he reconsider the abolition of vacation hardship allowance , especially as it was abolished in clear breach of undertakings given in the House that it would remain as a safety net following the abolition of social security provision ? |
| 10 | But she trusted him , saw the way he handled it through the bends , fed the power in as it was required , was part of the hurtling machine that he controlled so gently . |
| 11 | The fatalism of life at work was accepted just as it was believed that they could not help themselves or , indeed , be helped . |
| 12 | By 1914 the terms of a possible compromise were emerging , by which Unionists would accept Home Rule and Liberals would agree to exclude Ulster ; argument continued over the exact size of an excluded Ulster and the length of time involved in exclusion , but the logic of the negotiations pointed to this settlement in 1914 just as it was to do in 1921–22 . |
| 13 | I would argue that the introduction of literate/pre-literate as the criterion for making such a division has given the tradition a new lease of life just as it was wilting under the powerful challenge of recent work in social anthropology , linguistics and philosophy . |
| 14 | Yesterday afternoon was misty and bitterly cold , but I walked the four miles to Wuthering Heights and arrived just as it was beginning to snow . |
| 15 | He came just as it was getting dark again . |
| 16 | ‘ Suicide — suicide by drowning — about three or four hours ago , just as it was getting dark . |
| 17 | just as it was getting light . |
| 18 | Everything is just as it was left . ’ |
| 19 | The present generation of British and American literary Marxists remind me of the small boy in Joyce 's story , ‘ Araby ’ , who got to the bazaar just as it was closing . |
| 20 | I used a small spray of birds-foot trefoil , and although in the finished picture it seems as though it has been pressed just as it was picked , in fact the majority of the piece was dismantled for pressing and reassembled for the picture . |
| 21 | He gave the market a stimulus just as it was starting to recover , a stimulus it did n't need . |
| 22 | Ventura can accept files from a large number of programs so formatted text from , say , WordPerfect will appear just as it was typed . |
| 23 | Just as it was consolidating its gains , however , the Party was forced to make another somersault , which largely destroyed the advantages it had secured through the various Unity campaigns . |
| 24 | I was told later that the designer at the Natural History Publications Section nearly broke down trying to put the pieces together , just as it was thought all the animals had been spotted and labelled , another would be discovered ; I think this was an exaggeration but it was a very tricky task . |
| 25 | The story reveals how , just as it was taken for granted that God 's authority should prevail throughout all life , so the use of Roman coins symbolised how much the Roman emperor 's authority prevailed throughout the Roman empire . |
| 26 | Sabraxis had given him a schedule to work through , most of which he knew already as it was based upon traditional pieces . |
| 27 | ‘ We knew , just by looking at it , there was no way we could do the scene exactly as it was written , so we compromised . |
| 28 | The concert was beset by problems almost as soon as it was announced . |
| 29 | The new structure was criticized as over-elaborate — with its three tiers of regions , areas and districts — almost as soon as it was created . |
| 30 | This solution was found to be unsatisfactory as soon as it was stated . |