Example sentences of "as it [was/were] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But my opinion of the book is much the same now as it was that day in Kathmandu . |
| 2 | Some readers may remember attending the building when it was St Mary 's Junior School , indeed many nostalgic , even misty-eyed visits are made to the building by people who remember the school as it was many years ago . |
| 3 | As it was such release for me , too — release from the rigours of placing my variously sick relatives in hospices the length and breadth of Cumbria . |
| 4 | I have been told that on coming to the village to work in the cement factories and receiving his first weeks wages he asked if it was all his as it was more money than he had ever had in one week . |
| 5 | They had some very funny ideas about the construction as it was some 300ft below the surface and some of the local people feared the whole land area would collapse . |
| 6 | But it is seldom given as good an excuse for playing rough as it was this week by the blunder of the guerrilla force that has been fighting it for 23 years in Namibia and by the embarrassing unreadiness of the United Nations peacekeeping force to do its job of supervising the Namibian peace settlement . |
| 7 | She had allowed him to come too close , to penetrate her defences far too easily as it was this evening . |
| 8 | But again the accent was on seniority : ‘ Commonly wee do not call any a yeoman till he be married , and have children , and as it were some authoritie among his neighbours ’ . |