Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later Justices of the Peace were appointed and as time passed they were given administrative as well as judicial duties to perform . |
| 2 | So , if I pass my er printed overheads for this one an allowance er , is , and you were talking about it really , you were using this as though it were going to be er , your money that you 'd got to spend for doing each one of those activities or each bit of work within the , the project . |
| 3 | At a time when goals generally were becoming rarer as the old offside tactics became more widespread , Huddersfield still gave the crowd plenty of them , As the Examiner observed , the ‘ low passing and the long-field play of the Leeds Road team has become famous in the football world ’ . |
| 4 | In Kabul , more than 600 people were reported dead as Afghan factions fought for control of the capital . |
| 5 | Computer Associates International Inc president Charles Wang and Sun Microsystems Inc president Scott McNealy are to make a joint announcement today ( Monday ) , and were keeping tight-lipped as we went to press . |
| 6 | Inside the cottage it was snug enough , but we were living rough as our furniture had been unaccountably delayed . |
| 7 | Five Catholics were shot dead as they watched TV racing in Sean Graham 's bookies ' shop nearby in February 1992 . |
| 8 | For the first four years of the new school 's existence the buildings were used much as they had been prior to amalgamation , but in 1974 organisation was rationalised to provide departmental areas with teaching rooms and adjacent resource bases . |
| 9 | Once he had arrived at the Southern Capital , he had proclaimed his loyalty to the old gods loudly and publicly , disowning the Aten and throwing himself on the mercy of the priests of Amun , who even then were growing bold as the revolutionary pharaoh lost his grip both on reality and his empire . |
| 10 | Scores of the bank 's borrowers were going bankrupt as land prices slumped . |
| 11 | Beyond the breakwater the waves were getting bigger as the Pirate effed and cee-ed , bent over the uncovered inboard engine . |
| 12 | The seemingly potent forces of his Imperium were stretched thin as strands of spider-silk in a giant galactic web which was mostly vacant space . |
| 13 | In a moment the young men were proved right as Rose came over to oust them from her side . |
| 14 | Feelings were running high as the meeting continued . |
| 15 | Emotions were running high as Lady Thatcher made her triumphal entrance on to the conference platform . |
| 16 | One church 's house groups were doing this as they made a study , chapter by chapter , of Richard Foster 's Celebration of Discipline . |
| 17 | All three were found guilty as charged , save that the defendant had pleaded guilty to count 4 after a ruling against him on a legal submission . |
| 18 | Streetlight timers were cutting in and the lamps were glowing red as she pointed to a space and asked Carson to pull in . |
| 19 | Current Department of Agriculture inspection methods — feeling , smelling and looking at the food — were judged inappropriate as , in the case of fish , they can not not detect the toxins . |
| 20 | Imagine how you would fare if you were learning English as she is spoke in Oxford and met a Geordie . |
| 21 | The instrument monitors were reading normal as the equipment started up . |
| 22 | Up to this point we had kept up with the other parties , but while they had tackled the step easily , we were left puzzled as to how they had done it . |
| 23 | She wondered if the boys were discussing this as they whizzed along the nearer road in Andrew 's fast car . |
| 24 | These were to prove vulnerable as time passed : in Turkey to sabotage and in Syria to government action . |
| 25 | There was some doubt as to whether the cleaner was an independent contractor , but the occupiers were held liable as they had failed to take reasonable steps to check that the work had been reasonably done : " The craft of the charwoman may have its mysteries but there is no esoteric quality in the nature of the work which the cleaning of a snow covered step demands . " |
| 26 | The most publicised case was when a hotel was painted pink as requested , but the California-based Disney dream builders decided it was not quite the right shade of pink . |
| 27 | The traditional ‘ man from the Pru ’ approach was proving dated as financial services became more sophisticated , and as a remedy , Mr Newmarch devised ‘ Scenario 3 ’ . |
| 28 | The River Bain , a popular running water venue was frozen solid as were the Bargate and West Fen Drains . |
| 29 | Despite regulations regarding design , the sport was becoming dangerous as engines were built to be more powerful and , following the abandonment of the 1903 Paris-Madrid race due to many accidents , notably to pedestrians , road racing was banned . |
| 30 | He was living alone as Beryl was now in a private nursing home in Llandudno , and Maureen was working in the Co-operative Stores . |