Example sentences of "as it [be] when [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gentle exercise such as walking is as valid when you are old as it is when you are young . |
| 2 | While everyone agreed the changes in living standards since the film was made were for the better , there was some nostalgia for farming as it was when they were young . |
| 3 | Here , the house as it was when it was bought and , below , the same view three years ago |
| 4 | ‘ With the passage of time , some things like shutters have disappeared , ’ he said , ‘ but mostly the house is just as it was when it was finished in 1906 . ’ |
| 5 | It was a home that the great prophet of Gothic designed for himself and his family , and today it is still as strange and startling as it was when he built it around 1835 . |
| 6 | His campaigning manner today is much the same as it was when he set out three weeks ago to seek his coveted mandate . |
| 7 | The house is much as it was when he lived there . |
| 8 | Terry still made extravagant gestures of devotion to Sarah but to Joe the situation seemed much as it was when he was last at home . |
| 9 | Having studied the text and read critical appreciations of it , my natural reaction to Satan is still the same as it was when he first appeared to me . |
| 10 | Another day , another theatre , but the enthusiasm is just as strong as it was when he started as a raw Liverpudlian with his group the Pacemakers . |
| 11 | A living fossil gives the first interview in her career , and describes life as it was when she first roamed the Earth |
| 12 | My brain 's not defunct — it 's as sharp as it was when I was 21 . |
| 13 | I chose housing as my theme for the Dimbleby Lecture , and I enunciated a belief which is as firm today as it was when I delivered it : |
| 14 | I 'd rarely seen the place as packed as it was when I got there . |