Example sentences of "as it [was/were] in [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was hung the other way around from her own , and the door handle was on the right hand side ; not on the left as it was in her own time . |
| 2 | If the weather pattern was as uncertain as it was in her own country , she should take the opportunity of going there while the sky remained unclouded and the clear air of the city simmered with a body-relaxing warmth . |
| 3 | I have changed enough now to be shocked by the ease with which I let go of my Black identity , situated as it was in my real subordination on the basis of race and class , in exchange for an illusory equality with white men on the sexual plane . |
| 4 | From my thirteen-year-old daughter 's account it is still as uncritical as it was in my own schooldays . |
| 5 | I 'm afraid that STG is no longer as reliable as it was in my grandfather 's day . |
| 6 | This makes the accountability of the police as important here as it was in our earlier discussion of their general powers . |
| 7 | Quite right ; but I 'd had a vague recollection , and looked it up , and although the shirt of the centaur Nessus , saturated as it was in his poisoned blood , had caused Hercules no end of pain … |
| 8 | He came one day softly to see Cley , to discuss with him whether to ban , as it was in his power to do , a new play entitled Forgotten Robe , Abyss , Glitter . |
| 9 | Many artists would only wish to portray Windermere in sunny weather and would turn it into a different place , but he managed to evoke any real day in the Lake District as it were in its right clothes . |