Example sentences of "as it was for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Petipa 's orders to Tchaikovsky were sacrosanct because the composer knew that if that ‘ dictator ’ did not approve the music would have to be changed ( as it was for The Nutcracker . ) |
| 2 | The final curtain as it was for so many cinemas at this time , before they became cash and carry warehouses for bowls and colanders , brushes , clothes pegs , cloths and uncountable tons of things being produced in orange plastic . |
| 3 | When the fashion changed after the war , it was difficult for some older singers , just as it was for some of the stars of silent films when the talkies came in . |
| 4 | Life had to go on and music was presumably as important to ordinary people trying to survive in Berlin as it was for the people who crowded into the National Gallery in London to hear Myra Hess 's lunchtime recitals . |
| 5 | It was as much the way of the world for a Congregationalist keen on disestablishment to be keen on electoral reform , state education and ‘ reform ’ of the House of Lords as it was for an Anglo-Catholic priest who was a member of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament also to belong to the Guild of All Souls . |
| 6 | At every point in those historic struggles which founded the Protestant and radical traditions in Europe , and which severed radicalism from the body of the Catholic Church , the struggle was as much for personal gain or for political or economic dominance as it was for any pure-hearted vision of goodness . |
| 7 | Our lodging was not free , as it was for our service colleagues ; we paid one guinea a week , and five shillings for transport ( which we could scarcely avoid ) , and a fixed regular sum for meals necessarily taken in the canteen at B.P. Nor did we receive travel warrants for our three-monthly seven-day leaves ; and in those days when civilian travel was frowned upon we had no uniform to prove that our journey was really necessary . |
| 8 | There is much in the book that will be as new an exciting for most readers , as it was for me . |
| 9 | In this example , the assumption held good in the test we submitted it to : the experience of unemployment was broadly similar for those who were unalienated as it was for those who were alienated ; we could feel confident about averaging the two d s . |
| 10 | The demob was as slow for them as it was for us . |
| 11 | She reported that the diet was particularly suitable for her , just as it was for those with a high cholesterol level . |
| 12 | From the earliest days of the Community it was recognised that eliminating discrimination on grounds of nationality was as essential for securing the provision of services as it was for establishment . |
| 13 | Watercolour ‘ is as valuable in recording the urban landscapes of today as it was for the rural watercolourists of the 19th century ’ , reports RICHARD S TAYLOR , as he sets out to paint a timeworn French townscape . |
| 14 | The spontaneity of watercolour painting is , I believe , most conducive to recording this type of scene , where fleeting effects of moving light can be captured with a few quick washes and blots , and is as valuable in recording the urban landscapes of today as it was for the rural watercolourists of the 19th century . |
| 15 | It is their village now , just as much as it was for the old village families . |
| 16 | Consequently death is no longer in the midst of life as it was for our ancestors and still is in many Third World countries . |
| 17 | Watercolour ‘ is as valuable in recording the urban landscapes of today as it was for the rural watercolourists of the 19th century ’ , reports RICHARD S TAYLOR , as he sets out to paint a timeworn French townscape . |
| 18 | The spontaneity of watercolour painting is , I believe , most conducive to recording this type of scene , where fleeting effects of moving light can be captured with a few quick washes and blots , and is as valuable in recording the urban landscapes of today as it was for the rural watercolourists of the 19th century . |
| 19 | Again the warning is vital as it was for the last two techniques . |
| 20 | Corporate liberty , even of the most exalted kind , could never be for Anselm , as it was for Hugh of Lyons , the mainspring of his whole life . |
| 21 | Almost all freeholders would have taken strong exception to the suggestion that their support had been purchased , and this was as true of those gentlemen who had recently obtained posts for themselves or their sons as it was for those who had been less fortunate . |
| 22 | To divide it into two parts , heaven and earth , might still be admissible , as it was for Newton , when discussing theological and political symbolism . |
| 23 | Often the attribution is implied by the preceding text , as it was for speech in ( b.3 ) : |
| 24 | Lord Morris said that just as it was for Parliament to lay down the procedures to be followed for the passing of legislation , so it was for Parliament to determine whether these procedures had been followed . |
| 25 | I mean the Marxism was the motivation just as it was for the Chinese but er I do n't think the Russian revolution remained Marxist revolution for very long But the achievement of revolution did make it possible for the success of revolution to be seen by the Chinese because it had already been achieved . |
| 26 | It would , however , be just as unfortunate for our understanding of Simmel to be confined to this aspect of his work as it was for his philosophy to be reduced to the simple model of freedom enshrined in a earlier tradition of American sociology . |
| 27 | To pass beyond it is to cross the threshold into another dimension which , for all its pragmatic gifts to the West over the centuries , remains as mysteriously little-known to us now as it was for the first explorers . |
| 28 | Distressing as it was for the Victorian establishment to contemplate having descended from monkeys , it would not be long before new advances in physiology and biochemistry revealed that we virtually are monkeys — differing from the chimpanzee , for instance , by a single chromosome in our genetic code . |
| 29 | It reminded me yet again that our captivity was as much of a strain for them as it was for us , here in Lebanon . |
| 30 | When your income is not much above five or six pounds a week , as it was for me in the seventies , even a tin of dog food is out of the question . |