Example sentences of "as it [was/were] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in this atmosphere of unease that the Younger Committee reported ; about computers it had to say that , restricted as it was to investigating private sector applications , it had no evidence of abuse , but that there was a possibility and apprehension of abuse in the future . |
| 2 | In the opinion of the deputy judge the operation of that Part , concerned as it was with giving the authorities powers to secure compliance with or detection of evasion of the Act , came to an end when they had secured sufficient evidence to justify a charge . |
| 3 | ‘ You were in enough of a state as it was over doing your course . |
| 4 | There were too many working hours for too few police as it was without letting any be wasted unnecessarily . |
| 5 | She knew Jennifer would be hurt at the mention of him and the poor girl had enough problems as it was without adding to them . |
| 6 | Here his skill in playing the bill market was often of crucial importance , as it was in providing funds abroad for such purposes as the payment of English ambassadors , the purchases of art treasures for the royal collection , and , above all , the transmission of subsidies for Charles I 's foreign allies . |
| 7 | And it is important to keep as firmly in mind that this is what the reader wants to know , as it was in writing the blueprint detective story to remind oneself constantly that what the reader is looking for is hints towards answering the question " Who did it ? " |
| 8 | With about 60 per cent of its energy requirements supplied by a region racked with religious , ethnic and political conflict , the United States was as helpless in the face of state-sponsored narcotics trafficking as it was in dealing with state-sponsored terrorism . |
| 9 | It is possible to obtain a kind of flow chart automatically as it were by using successive photographs of operator positions on the same photographic plate . |