Example sentences of "as [pron] was [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I was dithering between neglected work and abandoned clearing up , she rang me . |
| 2 | ‘ They 'd told me that as I was caught in civilian clothes I was going to be treated as a spy , and every time I heard those shots I thought ‘ My turn tomorrow ’ . ' |
| 3 | And that was I it was , as I was saying in early January . |
| 4 | She immediately had to be ‘ warded ’ as she was suffering from acute torticollis . |
| 5 | A somewhat different case is García Márquez 's One Hundred Years of Solitude which recounts the history of the small town of Macondo , not so much as it actually happened , but as its inhabitants experienced and interpreted it and as it was transmitted by popular oral tradition . |
| 6 | The issue is the people 's right to choose their representatives and to hold them accountable ; and , in this English context , Parliament has already become the focus of the struggle for democracy , as it was to remain in subsequent centuries . |
| 7 | In some quarters it was counter-productive , as it was seen as naked lobbying , and in others it was applauded as a justifiable counter-offensive against an ill-founded doctrine . |
| 8 | He coaxed it along with flawless control of line and colour as it was developed with equal measures of logic and charm . |
| 9 | The court heard how the river turned a milky white colour as it was contaminated with toxic residue from shampoo , moisturiser , and hair lightener products . |
| 10 | Possibly the building industry was one of the most substantial in the country , but as it was based on small local units it is virtually impossible to study . |
| 11 | Kinnock 's modernisation did not go far enough , as it was based on old-style labourism and single-party arrogance . |
| 12 | As a consequence , the eubacterial rooting previously obtained from ATPase evolution is inconsistent as it was based on phylogenetic trees in which these two paralogous families were mixed in single trees . |
| 13 | The initial distribution between capitation and other expenditure followed an incremental approach as it was based on previous patterns of expenditure . |
| 14 | Sabraxis had given him a schedule to work through , most of which he knew already as it was based upon traditional pieces . |
| 15 | This effect gathered force as it was incorporated into political strategy , picked up by other media , entered into gossip , and thus came to overshadow immediate reality as it might have been recorded by an observer on the scene . |
| 16 | I read in Coldwater Answers about Mr. Belsey , who was having problems protecting the pond from herons , as it was surrounded by crazy paving . |
| 17 | She uses only the pinhole camera or , as it was known in pre-photographic times , the camera obscura . |
| 18 | The differences in electrophoretic mobility between the pre-Β 1 and mature Β 1 chain were probably due to structural differences in the glycan portion , as it was abolished after enzymatic deglycosylation of the receptors in normal epithelial cell membranes ( data not shown ) . |
| 19 | In the light of that , will he reconsider the abolition of vacation hardship allowance , especially as it was abolished in clear breach of undertakings given in the House that it would remain as a safety net following the abolition of social security provision ? |
| 20 | We would give that a slightly different gloss : multiculturalism , certainly as it was translated into educational and political practice , often conflated the question of culture with a particular understanding of ethnicity . |
| 21 | Most animal fights are restrained , or , as it was termed by early ethologists , ‘ ritualized ’ . |
| 22 | Stallholders and shopkeepers looked on with bemusement as he was pelted with bad fruit . |
| 23 | He had ‘ found himself ’ young and firmly held on to that ; as he was to do with remarkable consistency . |
| 24 | At the same time as he was working on individual buildings , King produced his lists of all the castles in Wales and the Marches , as well as more detailed papers on the counties of Breconshire and Cardiganshire . |
| 25 | Louis Gerstner received a lesson on Friday on just how tough it will be to lead IBM Corp in the midst of its economic woes , as he was showered with difficult questions about his qualifications to lead a computer company , Dow Jones & Co reports : Gerstner was also asked to explain why he left RJR to lead IBM — ‘ I thought this was an extraordinary opportunity , ’ he said , and asked if he felt he had completed his job at RJR , Gerstner responded ‘ I do n't think the job is ever finished as chief of a large company . ’ |
| 26 | Brown paid the price for his fast start as he was passed by Irish vets champion Billy McKay of Albertville . |
| 27 | His views on the kind of action which would be needed changed as he was educated in Keynesian economics after 1942 . |