Example sentences of "[adj] as it was [conj] " in BNC.

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1	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 .
2	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 .
3	In this case , as we have seen , there is a bit of both , but the dichotomy is not logically false as it was when applied to development .
4	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 .
5	More realistically , though , he conceded that as beautiful as it was as screen art it nevertheless belonged to that category of films ‘ which would not enrich their producers ’ .
6	Unlikely as it was that Richard Branson would ever have quite the impact on teenage sensibilities of Duran Duran , the days he could walk down a busy London street totally unrecognised were surely numbered .
7	It was er The village centre is about the same as it was when I was a boy , more busier of course , all the private houses that were on the front , you know , Street ?
8	The men times the hours when whenever you whenever you get your answer , you can check that your men times the hours must still still be the same as it was when you when they gave you the question .
9	‘ Pretending that everything 's exactly the same as it was when you first came here .
10	With the breeze as strong as it was that lead never looked enough .
11	I thought — it was silly I know , but I thought perhaps seeing Aubrey had reminded you of Madeleine and that it was going to be as awful as it was when you came back from England after that holiday .
12	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 .

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