Example sentences of "[noun] as it [was/were] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bodie glanced at the wreck of the Stones ' car as it was slowly winched back across the pavement by the police breakdown truck . |
| 2 | All through this time he hardly had any painkillers as it was very important he did n't feel that he could use his leg before it was strong enough . |
| 3 | And what sort of things did the education department as it was then , what sort of things were they doing in those days ? |
| 4 | Erm we made a little mistake with that one because it was a , a very big area , a lot of houses , and er the Crime Prevention Department as it was then , promised everyone that we 'd visit everyone 's house and , and advise them on their security . |
| 5 | He was struck by the way that the buffalo hide pictures from the last century , drawn by his great-great grandfathers , showed the monastery as it was now , in 1997 . |
| 6 | The one certainty , however , that confronted the Cabinet committee was demographic : if you left SERPS as it was then the eventual bill would become greater and greater as the proportion of contributors to pensioners declined . |
| 7 | But there were also emotional reasons behind the rule as it was also a way of reasserting her authority . |
| 8 | Floors , or Fleurs as it was originally known , is situated in the Scottish Borders , halfway between Edinburgh and Newcastle upon Tyne . |
| 9 | The examination , therefore , can now be seen as the culmination of the course rather than viewed as an unwelcome intrusion as it was previously . |
| 10 | Unemployment was as bad in East Anglia as it was elsewhere . |
| 11 | So you 'll always know that , if your salary 's gone up by the same level , whenever you claim , it 's gon na be the same percentage as it was today . |
| 12 | Fifteen years later the town of Carlisle is as much of an enigma as it was then , despite the expenditure of some very large sums of money and several large excavations . |
| 13 | A look at the estate map of 1634 gives a picture of the village as it was then , and it is probable that this had n't changed much from the previous centuries . |
| 14 | Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ? |
| 15 | The central focus of case management as it was originally conceived in North America was certainly the better co-ordination of services . |
| 16 | After listening to an eighteenth-century description of their village and its green , one class made a model of the village green as it was about 1790 . |
| 17 | The Youth Club of the Paris Commune as it was officially known , or the ‘ Paree ’ as its more irreverent members called it , was a gimcrack affair , cracked concrete and cheap plastic panels , tucked beside the inevitable block of flats , and a health centre , but it was well equipped : table tennis , television , a library , a concert room , a rather more substantial annexe for weight lifting , a hall which doubled up for meetings of the Free German Youth and dancing , and a comfortable lounge where one could buy coffee and soft drinks . |
| 18 | The 1953 engine has returned to its home as it was originally built for the Darlington Gas Board . |
| 19 | The 1953 engine has returned to its home as it was originally built for the Darlington Gas Board . |
| 20 | They agreed that John should let Margaret know that any intervention by her in the debate on immigration would be considered ‘ unhelpful ’ , and should extend an invitation for her to sit on the platform on the Friday afternoon for the Leader 's speech , sitting as far away from Ted Heath as it was humanly possible . |
| 21 | Harlow Mill as it was then |
| 22 | This anomaly became known as the West Lothian question as it was continuously raised by Tam Dalyell , the Labour Member for West Lothian and a firm opponent of devolution . |
| 23 | These powers have been used thereby effectively banning pyramid selling as it was previously practised . |
| 24 | The acid clearance test failed to discriminate between patients and volunteers in the first group as it was grossly prolonged in most of the subjects ( both patients and volunteers ) . |
| 25 | Mr McNeil said yesterday that although the region would co-operate fully with the CRE investigation as it was legally required to do , he believed it was focusing too narrowly on the region 's assessment procedures . |
| 26 | It 's all round the buildings as it was then , you know houses all ba all built , all just in see where me mother lives , it was like there were three bedrooms and erm and a back room and a front room , and a basement room , so that you could . |
| 27 | What petty little tin god had been responsible for this I do not know , for Mr Herbert Morrison , the leader of the LCC as it was then , had set the example after the great fire of December 1961 by taking his bed into the next office to his , and staying there all night . |
| 28 | The charge or poll tax as it was commonly called was abolished as from 31 March 1993 . |
| 29 | The limpness of the body as it was thus laid in place was pitiful . |
| 30 | JCU , or JCF as it was often called , was very much a part of the build-up of the Canberra force at Binbrook . |