Example sentences of "[was/were] as [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So first problem is one of serial correlation in this model right , if we estimated this model and things were as we thought they were this hypothes , these hypotheses were working and farmers were behaving erm , as we thought they might do , right , this model will automatically use serial correlation right . |
| 2 | He looked long and searchingly at the Banks of Knamber that tonight were as they had been then before the moon rose , grey and pale as a sky dotted with tiny black clouds . |
| 3 | At least she assumed that was who they were as they walked with Leo down the lane towards her ; she did n't wait to be introduced . |
| 4 | If things were as they seemed it would n't matter . |
| 5 | She was struck by how blue his eyes were as they bored into her own — blue and clear , like the sky . |
| 6 | Dexter noticed for the first time how thin his legs were as they wandered along the corridor . |
| 7 | Whatever reservations they had about dealing with me were as nothing compared to the reservations they had about dealing with each other . |
| 8 | A good many people suffered minor injuries in consequence ; but I believe those who suffered injuries were as nothing compared to those who wished to sustain an honourable contusion or bruise , or who , to make the whole setting more dramatic , lay on the ground as if laid out for dead without any injury at all . |
| 9 | Yet they were as nothing compared to the eighty-eight major rings that clustered near the apex of the dome . |
| 10 | And what this means is that from now on the cla lectures will trail the classes , which , which does n't matter and is actually quite er a good thing in the sense that what will happen from now on is that we 'll first do a topic in the class and then I will give the lecture on it the week after , or possibly even two weeks after , which is okay because it means that then in the lecture I can concentrate on filling in the gaps , straightening out the misunderstandings and generally adding to what we did in the class , rather than leading as it were as I have up until now . |
| 11 | He could only imagine girls in the evening when they all walked along and Marie stopped in front of a shop window to see that her clothes and hair were as she wanted and they all came up behind her and did the same so they were like a group photograph on a record sleeve , wiggling their fingers and poking out their tongues and saying ‘ Yoo-hoo ’ to their reflections . |
| 12 | But it did n't prevent her struggling , and he noticed how tiny her wrists were as he tightened the cord until it bit deep into her thin flesh . |
| 13 | If the facts actually were as he believed them to be , he would be entitled to act as he did . |
| 14 | He was fascinated by those deepest drives which were as he put it in 1919 ‘ canalizations of something … simple , terrible and unknown ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ They received the message with great eagerness , studying the scriptures every day to see whether it was as they said . |
| 16 | They studied ‘ to see whether it was as they said ’ . |
| 17 | Rising through two floors of the White Tower , was the chapel of St. John where the lady Alianor and Joan attended Mass each morning : it was as they returned on the second morning that Joan voiced her enquiry . |
| 18 | It was as they 'd said ; the boy had a nimble mind . |
| 19 | It was as they stepped from the dodgem stand and Rachel turned from helping Belinda down the steep steps to the grass that she saw the little group of her family watching them . |
| 20 | It was as they left the café that Kelly noticed a Lamborghini , bearing the number plate FAY 1 , badly parked outside a chemist 's shop on the High Street . |
| 21 | It was as they thought . |
| 22 | It was as they approached the gates that Joe pointed away to the left and towards the hills where a man was walking and he cried excitedly , ‘ There 's Mick ! ’ |
| 23 | It was as they approached Portugal that the skipper began to hint at what he wanted of her . |
| 24 | The damage this did to our criticism was as nothing compared with the harm it did to our poetry . |
| 25 | And last Monday Dr Harold Varmus let it be known that the thrill of winning the Nobel Prize for Medicine in the morning was as nothing compared with being at Candlestick Park in the evening to see the Giants take the National League pennant for the first time in 27 years . |
| 26 | But if February was dreadful , it was as nothing compared with March . |
| 27 | My own solitude was as nothing compared with their constantly patrolled loneliness , without hope of escape . |
| 28 | Human power was as nothing compared with the strength of God . |
| 29 | The view from the tower was as nothing compared with the view Amaranth unwittingly presented . |
| 30 | Gross margin was as we expected broadly level with the second half of last year . |