Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] as it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fatalism of life at work was accepted just as it was believed that they could not help themselves or , indeed , be helped . |
| 2 | She was suffering enough as it was . |
| 3 | Even allowing for this , the surface was left just as it came out of the mould . |
| 4 | The book 's central part , represented by " Socrates and Greek Tragedy " , had already been well worked and , apart from some reordering , was left virtually as it was ; the rest required more attention , but on 12 December he was able to send off the final portions of the manuscript , including a new , short , preface to Wagner . " |
| 5 | She stopped and looked full face into the mirror , as if , among the distorted outlines of the bar she was standing in as it stretched far into the mirror-room that swallowed it up and pulled it into strange shapes , she was looking for something not apparent in the real room . |
| 6 | On 4 March the Belgian ship La Coubre — carrying weapons purchased by the Castro regime — was blown up as it entered Havana Bay by a bomb allegedly planted by the CIA . |
| 7 | Her heart was beating wildly as it had for days whenever the telephone bell rang anywhere she happened to be . |