Example sentences of "as they [adv] were [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when non-Anglican protestants had become accepted as citizens in England and Ireland towards the end of the eighteenth century as they already were in Scotland and Wales , English and Irish catholics remained politically suspect . |
| 2 | By June , relations between Franco and Serrano Suñer were very strained ; as they also were between Serrano and the Minister Secretary-General of the Party , José Luis Arrese . |
| 3 | Where a similar pattern occurred in the parishes north of the Downland scarp there was some resistance from the local interests of lesser men , displaced as they often were from what they had come to regard as their ‘ customary ’ rights , particularly grazing on the extensive wastes . |
| 4 | Substantially rewarded as they often were from ecclesiastical revenues they constituted only a minor burden on the Crown . |
| 5 | Enthusiastic as some of the clergy may have been for war and seduced as they sometimes were by their own eloquence and propaganda for it , they were less eager about the burdens which it entailed . |
| 6 | So do you feel that , I mean in the , in the years you 've worked here is the women as important as they always were in the factory ? |
| 7 | Before he had ascended the lengthy slope and reached his parked car , the shrieking had stopped , but the flames were burning fiercer than ever , fuelled as they now were by melting human fat . |
| 8 | State legislatures and Congress are no longer gripped as they once were by the dead hand of privilege . |