Example sentences of "as [pron] [was/were] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The results showed that there was twice as much free ball from the Currie Cup game line-outs as there was from the World Cup games . |
| 2 | In verses 5 and 6 Peter makes direct reference to the flood of judgment which came upon the earth in the days of Noah and at the end of the preceding verse 4 he writes of how the scoffers will say that ‘ all things continue as they were from the beginning of the CREATION . ’ |
| 3 | In Christ all things have become new , and yet everything remains as it was from the beginning … ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Love apples , ’ she had said to Mark , and the words ‘ love apple ’ had somehow given a name to the district , strange and different as it was from the rest of the parish which lay over the other side of the main road , far from the railway line . |
| 5 | Another investigation , looking at the problem as it were from the opposite direction , compared adoptees selected for later estimates of their creativity and then examined incidences of mental illness . |
| 6 | This was Little Gidding , and , as she wrote , ‘ I shall never forget the experience of hearing the words new-minted as it were from the poet 's own lips ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ You see , one of the advantages of being dead is that one is released as it were from the bonds of time and therefore I can see everything that has happened or will happen , all at the same time except that of course I now know that Time does not , for all practical purposes , exist . ’ |
| 8 | Erm , it , what it struck me as is a parallel with Freud 's idea of transference , you know that once something happens in the , in the traumatic period in a , in a childhood , there 's then a tendency to transference to occur later in life , we recreate later in relationships to er the model of the early one and er it struck me that what you said about French industrial relations sounded a bit like transference in erm in the psychoanalysis the idea that i i it spills out as it were from the initial which might have been saved er within the family to other relationships i in later life that people have with their superiors at work or something I mean you can see this actually sometimes you know that people have relationships with their superiors which are clearly erm based on erm their relationships with their parents and they see the , th their boss as a parental figure and the employee sees themselves as er as , as , as a kind of erm child and it shows itself sometimes in quite er quite unmistakable ways . |