Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] it [was/were] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presentation techniques , a few things here that might help you in terms of making it interesting as it were and the actual delivery of your training your posture , keep your posture erect , but relaxed I do n't really know what that means but er er stand up . |
| 2 | The belay will probably be a few feet lower than it was and nearer to the exit from the groove . |
| 3 | I think that Sussex in a way perhaps is n't quite as identifiable as it was and I think this does n't necessarily cause by any particular circumstance or group of individuals or individual or whatever . |
| 4 | I mean I did n't take a lot with me , I mean I took too much as it was and my arm carrying it across the Underground . |
| 5 | Things were pretty tense as it was and all her own tension had come flooding back , especially when she thought of her reaction to Felipe . |
| 6 | They 've improved the chimney recently and it 's very much better than it was but we still get the smells . |
| 7 | Gesner had made it better than it was and had carried Ingrid through most of her numbers . |
| 8 | The ratio of bankers ' balances to deposit liabilities will be smaller than it was and if , as we have now said several times , the original ratio was a desired one , then banks will have to make further adjustments to their balance sheets to restore the ratio . |
| 9 | It did n't hurt , honestly , but it looked worse than it was and Lisabeth sort of saw red . ’ |
| 10 | There was an assumption that inflation would be higher than it was and that was cut back to one point five percent , which I think that I would actually support was a sensible way forward . |
| 11 | That unpleasant responsibility is less necessary than it was but the habit of mind , in society as much as with the professions , lingers on . |
| 12 | You might agree that it 's wasteful that it 's not the best way of channelling the resources but the fact is that the global amount available because of it is much greater than it was and that will be our baseline to start from if they decide to reorganise the money in a different way . |
| 13 | For the second time in her life , she says , he had appeared out of the blue as it were and too charge . |
| 14 | And which is natural because you know , the very early motor cars were only a sort of toy for the rich as it were and er when it came to you see er grocer 's vans or , or er laundry vans made out of old pr private cars . |
| 15 | Manufacturers do put static protection devices on chips so the problem is nowhere near as bad as it was but it 's better to be safe than out of pocket . |