Example sentences of "as it [was/were] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it is obviously as much a waste of funds to give money to privatisation of the coal industry as it was to give money for the poll tax . |
| 2 | And as it was revealed house prices were still falling , Nat West chairman Lord Alexander said : ‘ There is continuing , widespread deep recession in the UK . ’ |
| 3 | Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway A mixed passenger and goods train belonging to the Bishop 's Castle Railway Company ran into a coal train belonging to the Great Western Company as it was passing Stretford Junction , owing to the driver of the passenger train being unable to bring it to a standstill on seeing the signals against him . |
| 4 | As it was passing Rostov 's position , a jagged blue flash bridged the gap to the platform , and he controlled the impulse to jump back . |
| 5 | He came just as it was getting dark again . |
| 6 | And then afterwards came the disco , where it was about as difficult to score as it was to hunt chickens with a machete . |
| 7 | Modigliani stopped her taxi as it was crossing Montparnasse and implored to be allowed to ride with her , and even that was relayed to her readers . |
| 8 | Women supported the idea of compulsory leave from work as long as it was paid leave and called for the adoption of the International Labour Organisation 's Washington Convention , which provided for six weeks maternity leave before and after childbirth . |
| 9 | One of the secretaries kindly dropped me off on her car route home , which — as it was bucketing rain yet again — I appreciated . |
| 10 | For like millions of other readers he was following the slow northward progress of the escaped eagle as it was reported day by day in most of the popular newspapers . |
| 11 | If that 's a natural as it were adapted effect of the Trivers Willard effect , there are plenty of cultural ones as well . |