Example sentences of "as [pron] were [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now of course it would depend very much on and whether you were in a drought situation as we were until last year or whether it 's like we 've been over this last summer and early winter which is that virtually not a day has passed without we 've had some rain , in which case obviously the roof is going to get cleaned up very much quicker but I have to say that although I 've always been under the impression that it 's not a good idea to save water off a new felt roof er because of deposits that come off the mineral felt . |
| 2 | I should say at this point that the channel 1 ‘ clip ’ indicator on this example does n't work , although you ca n't blame the British distributors , as we were in such a rush to lay hands on the Acousticube that they did n't have time to check it ( also , pushing the Line/Mic button on channel 2 produces a large bang through the speaker ) . |
| 3 | It seemed to her that she had never seen so many people as there were on that platform , waiting for the Rome express to arrive . |
| 4 | There were ‘ negative phenomena and deformations ’ in relations between the nationalities , as there were in other spheres of Soviet life ; and there had been incidents elsewhere not very different from those in the Kazakh capital . |
| 5 | And there were n't so many bags carried in those days as there were in later years , you know , the sort of er haversack thing . |
| 6 | Where there are conflicting practices ( as there were in this case ) , negligence is not established by proving that the defendant has not followed one practice . |
| 7 | Even Gould 's expert methods of preservation , vested as they were with such personal concern , were susceptible to the ravages of nature and a long sea voyage . |
| 8 | Even the wars and internal reforms of Peter I , bitterly unpopular as they were with great masses of his people , could not eradicate the feeling that the Tsar was , in some ultimate sense , the father and protector of the ordinary Russian . |
| 9 | He was at the mercy of crack-brained adults just the same as they were with crazy Sylvester . |
| 10 | He wore a white robe and hat like mine , a little odd as they were of Nigerian design . |
| 11 | The ‘ if you ca n't measure it , it does n't exist ’ brigade long maintained that they did n't , as long as they were of good enough quality , but the generally accepted view among the hi-fi fraternity is that they do , and that different pieces of gear respond differently to different bits of wire ( and indeed to different plugs ! ) . |
| 12 | Both Ellis and Beto were as proud of their success in raising the salary and status of guards as they were of any other achievement . |
| 13 | As far as the Palestinian population was concerned , gas masks had not been distributed , as they were to all Israeli citizens , to Jewish settlers in the occupied territories and to all arriving immigrants ; moreover , there were reportedly no air raid sirens in the occupied territories except in the Jewish settlements there . |
| 14 | It was immediately evident to the Doctor that , accustomed as they were to successful action , the Chelonians were ill prepared for such a large number of casualties . |
| 15 | To begin with , he thought I was as close to Steve and Paul as they were to each other — and they were like a single amoeba that wo n't let anyone else into its world . |
| 16 | Does the work move to them , or are cars made so expensive that people are obliged to live close to their work , as they were for much of this century ? |
| 17 | The sale agreed and completed was thus for the land and buildings as they were at that time . |
| 18 | Sir Daniel bade his brother Roger , then living at Coniston Hall , make a report on the mines as they were at that time . |
| 19 | In civil defence terms the Scud attacks , directed as they were at civilian populations , posed a dilemma for the Israeli authorities as it was not known in advance whether the missiles would carry conventional or chemical warheads . |
| 20 | the ministers of the forest … have taken again into the forest lands and woods as entirely as they were at any time , contrary to the Charter … and cause ditches to be thrown down , and interfere with their cultivation , and take from them grievous and excessive ransoms . |
| 21 | And certainly the percentages very never as high as they were on other buildings , were they ? |
| 22 | Directed by none other than Ringo Starr ( ! ) the first thing that Born To Boogie makes obvious is that , outrageous and intoxicating as they were on single , T-Rex were an appalling live band . |
| 23 | This is an extremely bold theory , but in the present stage of historical and anthropological knowledge it is not possible to say whether Marx of Engels were clearly wrong , as they were over primitive promiscuity , or by and large right , as they were over the gentile constitution . |
| 24 | The Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies , Northgate , Canterbury , have published two maps showing the registration and census districts as they were between 1837 and 1851 and between 1852 and 1946 , though they do not mark exact boundaries . |
| 25 | Her almost violet eyes were a bit startling , maybe , set as they were in such dark lashes , but certainly her hair did n't give the impression of ruthless determination ; it sprang every which way , totally unsuppressed . |
| 26 | To this day , we do not know why élite internal security units of the KBW were not used for this purpose , as they were in 1956 . |
| 27 | The arguments for extending fluoridation are not as overwhelming as they were in 1956 . |
| 28 | Will he confim that if unemployment figures were counted today on the same basis as they were in 1979 employment Ministers would be forced to stand at the Dispatch Box and admit that the number of economically active people who are unemployed in Great Britain today is 3.75 million ? |
| 29 | Inevitably , the boundaries of what was and was not considered permissible in village life were much clearer in the nineteenth century , as they were in Victorian society generally . |
| 30 | Inevitably the boundaries of what was and was not considered permissible in village life were much clearer in the nineteenth century , as they were in Victorian society generally . |