Example sentences of "as [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one was a fat , broad-faced man ; the body perfect and soft , as if just dead ; the lid had been glewed together , lengthways , and the weight of the earth had prest down his nose ; his beard was about half an inch long ; the winding-sheet was crape , tied with black ribbons ; and the thumbs and toes with the like ; the date was composed of small nails ( 1665 ) by which it appeared he had been dead seventy-two years ; as were also the figure of an hour-glass , death 's head , and cross bones . |
| 2 | Even in Cramlington , the activities of the developer builders were seen largely in terms of providing a population to serve as the basis of demand for services , rather than , as was clearly the case for the public sector , in terms of providing housing so as to assemble a labour force for new industries . |
| 3 | The same argument could be used to suppress the reporting of all crime that involved human behaviour ( as was frequently the case in the old Soviet empire ) . |
| 4 | Since this is part of the preliminaries , the page , as was frequently the custom , was signed with an asterisk instead of a letter , the letters beginning with the main text . |
| 5 | AS WAS surely the intention from the outset , Fabulous seem a strange choice of support for The Farm — glamour , rebellion and superficiality supports worthy but dull , genuine , salt of the earth brickie pop . |
| 6 | Several concessions have also been made in relation to capital gains tax : the amount of gain allowed tax free has risen from £1,000 a year to £5,000 a year and this allowance now applies to all gains , not just small gains as was formerly the case . |
| 7 | From now on , music could be no more than tone-painting or else a stimulant for jaded nerves , where the words hardly mattered ( as was already the case in Euripidean lyrics ) . |
| 8 | In Malaysia , Sabah and Sarawak were expected to have almost no virgin forest left by the end of the century , as was already the case in Thailand and the Philippines . |
| 9 | The pound would be allowed to fluctuate initially by up to 6 per cent on either side of its central parity rate ( as was also the case for the Spanish peseta ) , but would move into the narrower 2.25 per cent fluctuation band as soon as possible . |
| 10 | ( Indeed , old and new models may be in production simultaneously , as was briefly the case with the T-54 , T-62 and T-72 ) . |
| 11 | In more recent times the potential of bilingual education not only for a social elite as was traditionally the case but also for the disadvantaged and/or those already possessing a degree of bilingualism from pre-school experience has been much discussed and researched . |
| 12 | You had to look hard to find a car that did n't boast an £80,000-plus price sticker , plus a 200mph-plus top speed or , as was usually the case , both . |
| 13 | The parkland and the distant country were beautifully green , but , as was usually the case , the sky was obscured by a covering of cloud which hid the sun but did nothing to lessen its heat . |
| 14 | If — as was usually the case — that investor were a higher-rate taxpayer , the effective cost per share was just 60p after tax relief . |
| 15 | As was usually the way when the magnificent horses were offered for sale , they sold within the hour , leaving Seb to look around at the other animals and sample the pleasures offered to the fair-goers . |
| 16 | As was perhaps the purpose . |
| 17 | Napoleon III 's objections to Montpensier were well known in European diplomatic circles and so the candidature was unlikely to find favour with the other governments , as was indeed the case — with one exception . |
| 18 | If , however , the suspect piece turned out to be an aluminium bronze ( as was recently the case with some coins purporting to be Anglo-Saxon ) , then one could reject it straight away because aluminium , and thus aluminium bronze , was not known before the nineteenth century . |
| 19 | From evidence such as this we can build up a picture of a society in which child mortality was common ; in which many of the children who survived their first year none the less died before they were twenty , as was still the case down to the early nineteenth century ; in which a serious famine or an outbreak of disease might rapidly depopulate a whole region — and yet in which the expectation of life of those who passed twenty was probably not sensationally lower than it is today . |
| 20 | As was often the case when there was little wind and a bright moon , that night I sat outside in order to save batteries . |
| 21 | Instead , it promotes a new philosophy — that both parents have parental responsibility for the children and not just , as was often the case under the old law , the parent with whom the children were living . |
| 22 | The answer , as was often the case with Baldwin , was that he did not quite know . |
| 23 | Women are not expected to be socially subservient to their husbands as was often the case even 50 years ago . |
| 24 | As was often the practice , the paintings included portraits of the noble and his family . |
| 25 | The Lombard royal hoard was divided , as was often the custom , as loot for the Frankish army . |
| 26 | Although the term euro-dollar ( or euro-currency ) might imply a market based exclusively in Europe , as was once the case , there is now an active Asian dollar market based in Singapore and Hong Kong which enables banks in the Far East to intermediate in external dollar deposits . |
| 27 | If her husband had let her down , as was apparently the case , she ought to have a male relation of some kind , to see to things . |
| 28 | As was always the case in the ballet de cour , the cast included both professional and aristocratic performers approximately 30 of each in 76 different roles . |