Example sentences of "as it was for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Petipa 's orders to Tchaikovsky were sacrosanct because the composer knew that if that ‘ dictator ’ did not approve the music would have to be changed ( as it was for The Nutcracker . ) |
| 2 | Life had to go on and music was presumably as important to ordinary people trying to survive in Berlin as it was for the people who crowded into the National Gallery in London to hear Myra Hess 's lunchtime recitals . |
| 3 | Watercolour ‘ is as valuable in recording the urban landscapes of today as it was for the rural watercolourists of the 19th century ’ , reports RICHARD S TAYLOR , as he sets out to paint a timeworn French townscape . |
| 4 | The spontaneity of watercolour painting is , I believe , most conducive to recording this type of scene , where fleeting effects of moving light can be captured with a few quick washes and blots , and is as valuable in recording the urban landscapes of today as it was for the rural watercolourists of the 19th century . |
| 5 | It is their village now , just as much as it was for the old village families . |
| 6 | Watercolour ‘ is as valuable in recording the urban landscapes of today as it was for the rural watercolourists of the 19th century ’ , reports RICHARD S TAYLOR , as he sets out to paint a timeworn French townscape . |
| 7 | The spontaneity of watercolour painting is , I believe , most conducive to recording this type of scene , where fleeting effects of moving light can be captured with a few quick washes and blots , and is as valuable in recording the urban landscapes of today as it was for the rural watercolourists of the 19th century . |
| 8 | Again the warning is vital as it was for the last two techniques . |
| 9 | I mean the Marxism was the motivation just as it was for the Chinese but er I do n't think the Russian revolution remained Marxist revolution for very long But the achievement of revolution did make it possible for the success of revolution to be seen by the Chinese because it had already been achieved . |
| 10 | To pass beyond it is to cross the threshold into another dimension which , for all its pragmatic gifts to the West over the centuries , remains as mysteriously little-known to us now as it was for the first explorers . |
| 11 | Distressing as it was for the Victorian establishment to contemplate having descended from monkeys , it would not be long before new advances in physiology and biochemistry revealed that we virtually are monkeys — differing from the chimpanzee , for instance , by a single chromosome in our genetic code . |
| 12 | Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography was carried out as often for high strictures ( 20 of 27 ( 74% ) as it was for the group as a whole ( 48 of 62 ( 77% ) ) . |