Example sentences of "[v-ing] as it [was/were] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our modern parental investment individualistic view would n't allow you to make that error , instead you 'd say you know you 've got ta look at the costs and benefits of the mother too and perhaps there are benefits to mothers in actively testing as it were their offspring , erm rather than just passively er accepting that they 're gon na have to be mothers and gon na have to get on with it and again you see , er I would er and this may have been the big mistake I made last year , er but again I stand by my er view on this and it 's a perfectly defensible one , erm again I think those who say that abortion is unnatural and kind of erm offends against er you know nature , are wrong . |
| 2 | They were panicking as it was their lack of observation which had led to the two getting away unseen . |
| 3 | She could hear Mrs Owen being castigated for not having turned right and left , instead of left and right , to Haematology , seeing as it was her first time . |
| 4 | And seeing as it was my brainchild , would you not say it was possibly the best commercial of all time ? |
| 5 | ‘ Whilst there may be sanctuary men and sanctuary women — ’ he pointed out , producing as it were his trump card , ‘ — since children can commit no crime for which asylum would be needed , the privilege of sanctuary can not be extended to them . |