Example sentences of "as was the " in BNC.
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| 31 | It seems doubtful , except in the case of the more prosperous areas , whether the acquisitive nature of society was as important to the working class as was the need to survive and adjust to the depression . |
| 32 | Within this scheme of thought , anything which can not be controlled is labelled dangerous and marginal , particularly when society is working to preserve its unity and to develop more sophisticated systems of self-definition , as was the case for the Jewish community in Palestine following the exile . |
| 33 | The idea of going out in the garden to sit looking back towards the house was popular , as was the line of the path , laid in stock bricks in a colour best described as crushed strawberry . |
| 34 | The power-sharers , relocated in the Unionist Party of Northern Ireland , were wiped out , as was the Baird-led remnant of Vanguard . |
| 35 | His manure was not sold ( as Red Rum 's had been ) , nor had his exploits been celebrated in song ( as was the case with Arkle , Red Rum and Dawn Run ) , but his fans were not sold short : there were books ( three ) , video tapes ( two ) , countless portraits , a white rocking horse called ‘ Dessie ’ , sculptures and figurines ( some of which actually bore a resemblance to the horse ) , an official fan club , and even a recorded phone message on which Desert Orchid 's part-owner Richard Burridge would update worshippers on the well-being of their idol . |
| 36 | He was of Italian stock , as was the proprietor of a blues recording studio I had met in the Deep South of America . |
| 37 | Having had a gruesome storm-tossed journey , his first act on landing was to fulfil his vow to travel barefoot to the nearest shrine in thanksgiving for his delivery ; the rheumatism which resulted was with him for the rest of his life — as was the sourness with which he regarded Scotland . |
| 38 | The revised perambulations did , however , make extensive concessions in Derbyshire , Northamptonshire and Wiltshire ; the hundred of Tendring in Essex was disafforested , as was the whole of Sussex with the exception of two demesne woods — the ‘ broils of Chichester ’ and ‘ Falconer 's Wood ’ . |
| 39 | Certainly not with a broken left arm and measles , as was the case with Gertrude . |
| 40 | The fans have created a special Anglo-Gallic chant for him , and they call for his reinstatement when he is not in the team , as was the case here for all but the last six minutes . |
| 41 | As was the local custom , they both made sacrifices to God from the products of their labour , Cain sacrificing one of his sheep and Abel some of his vegetables . |
| 42 | The woman 's financial and material circumstances were considered less frequently with GP referrals ( 28 per cent ) than other referrals ( 49 per cent ) as was the case with non familial social supports ( GP referrals 53 per cent , other referrals 65 per cent ) . |
| 43 | They were dark eyes , but without warmth and used to obedience , as was the voice , low-pitched through years without need of recourse to argument . |
| 44 | Belpan City was out , as was the Belpan River . |
| 45 | Yet for all their meanness , we learn from the minutes that by the end of 1907 nine holes were open , as was the clubhouse , and that several men , ladies and boys had been elected as members . |
| 46 | Luckily , as was the way in those less intense days , Micky Watson was able to use the considerable contracting plant and other facilities of his own business ( Aubrey Watson Ltd. ) , to help pull the Club together . |
| 47 | But not every intelligence agency is as fortunate as was the DGSE . |
| 48 | As the following table shows , this was well below the required numbers , as was the availability of places in foster homes and private lodgings . |
| 49 | Unfortunately , at the end of the sixteenth-century the whole façade was remodelled , as was the inside , and the local population was outraged . |
| 50 | The Lower Mill was a stone building , as was the substantial mill house . |
| 51 | Further afield , the Indian National Congress was already beginning to grope towards a national identity , as was the Sarekat Islam in the great Dutch empire of the East Indies . |
| 52 | Even in the heart of supposedly the most advanced power , Britain , the issue of Irish national liberation re-emerged in the Easter Rising of 1916 ; for the British , this was as shocking in act of disloyalty in the midst of war as was the Bolshevik revolution for the Russian establishment . |
| 53 | This is cold-blooded business indeed , just as was the Balfour Declaration of 1917 that gave Britain 's support to a Jewish homeland providing that ‘ nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine ’ . |
| 54 | Stubbornness was an early characteristic , as was the way he would call a halt to any admonishment laid down by Mud . |
| 55 | ‘ It was piled four deep with bodies , as was the other lorry beside it . |
| 56 | But in his lordship 's day , that room was regularly required , as was the long table that occupied it , to seat thirty or more guests for dinner ; in fact , the banqueting hall is so spacious that when necessity demanded it , further tables were added to the existing one to enable almost fifty to be seated . |
| 57 | A massive public interest in — and concern for — our vanishing heritage was evident , as was the need to do something about it . |
| 58 | As was the heavy rumour that The Smiths had already received advances for their next five albums . |
| 59 | The phone of another leading miners ' union official was also allegedly tapped in the late 1970s , as was the phone of a shop steward at the Ford plant at Dagenham . |
| 60 | Wimbledon was as much a mystery to them as was the Orinoco to Henry . |