Example sentences of "as it [was/were] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a digital signal , it is very difficult for distortion to occur since so long as a 1 remains a 1 and 0 remains a 0 the signal will continue to carry all the information and the data stream will be as pure at the end as it was at the beginning . |
| 2 | Faith coming before and bringing about healing is as real to many Christians today as it was at the time of the Gospel . |
| 3 | When mortality for both sexes in infancy and childhood was great , as it was at the beginning of the century , it did not take long for a cohort to advance up the age scale before females outnumbered males . |
| 4 | ( It does seem a little perverse of EMI to have included with these discs the specification of the Sainte-Trinité organ as it now stands rather than as it was at the time these recordings were made . ) |
| 5 | A map of the town as it was at the beginning of this century , plus one as it is today , would have added considerably to the understanding of a reader not familiar with the town . |
| 6 | Yet to mere man , Venice stands today on a group of islands at the head of the Adriatic very much as it was at the time of the great Doges . |
| 7 | I now had a settled crew and witnessed the steady improvement in the PFF methods , but very much trial and error as it was at the time , although in keeping with the Harris momentum . |
| 8 | Went through Section Head of various departments and became the A M S there or M P S as it was at the time . |
| 9 | The rebuilt barn had been laid out just as it was at the time of the fire in January last year . |
| 10 | ‘ My attitude is still the same as it was at the beginning of the 1986–87 season and that is , if I can continue to contribute then I 'm happy to do so . ’ |
| 11 | He might have an interesting tale to tell but it could probably be told in the space of thirty minutes and on later meetings hauled out and paraded again exactly as it was on the first occasion . |
| 12 | Noreen was only older by a couple of years , but their mark was laid heavily on her , just as it was on the Rafferty regulars . |
| 13 | Oh we will protest , too much methinks , that we do not miss it , will recall the struggle , the failures , the inadequacies ; recall life as it was on the road , for a time anyhow , though I daresay soon enough out imagination will take over transforming us into giants . |
| 14 | We vote Labour because it 's our party , it 's on our side , as it was on the side of our forefathers . |
| 15 | Barnhorne was not quite so impressive , set as it was on the shifting , sea-threatened , marshland east of Pevensey . |
| 16 | The local slave trading and mercantile community was loud in its support for Harris ' intervention and happy to see , at this early stage of antislavery mobilisation , its interests defended quite as much in general scriptural terms as it was on the broad basis of national interest and community prosperity . |
| 17 | God knows how they had conjured up the planning permission for such a venture , situated as it was on the borders of Essex in a green-belt area . |
| 18 | Linked to this , a central factor in the familial ideology , was the increased ideological separation of home from work , based as it was on the withdrawal of the lady from social labour . |
| 19 | The passageway here splits into two , one branch leading to the engine sump where a cage lies jammed for ever , the other leading to where a small spiral stairway runs up from a hole in the wall , over the tunnel , to the engine room which , apart from a few acts of vandalism and the ravages of time , is very much as it was on the day it was left . |
| 20 | ‘ It does n't show much sign of injury , ’ he said , ‘ but as it was on the side of the road I think it 's safe to assume it 's just one more traffic casualty . ’ |
| 21 | If she was aware of the situation as it was on the morning of 18 October 1963 she was possibly mistaken in her action . |
| 22 | 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 . ) |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It is their village now , just as much as it was for the old village families . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Again the warning is vital as it was for the last two techniques . |
| 30 | 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 . |