Example sentences of "as was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The extreme of critical judgement is to destroy the work concerned , as bulldozers destroyed a Russian exhibition of experimental art in 1974 ; or to forbid an artist to work , as was the practice in National Socialist Germany , where another form of criticism was used in 1937 by making an exhibition of art to be repudiated by its visitors . |
| 2 | His son , Nathaniel Bernard ( shortened to Nathan , as was the custom ) , Leonard 's father , exited from his war service disabled . |
| 3 | Head coverings were normal , as was the removal of one 's shoes ; ( in some quarters the placing of dust or earth on one 's head , even flesh-cutting and head-shaving , were tolerated ) . |
| 4 | But it is not a conclusion : ‘ All my family were priests , from Aaron to my father , ’ suggesting that on the family 's spice-box should be inscribed ( as was the old custom ) : |
| 5 | As was the case with the West Coast main line , the Great Western sub-sector was also badly affected by recession , but the decline at the start of the decade was matched by a spectacular recovery which started from the second half of the 1980s . |
| 6 | Markets have learned to judge when one approach becomes incompatible with the other , as was the case in May last year when Mrs Thatcher effectively vetoed further attempts by Mr Lawson to hold the pound below DM3 . |
| 7 | Barbara Castle , then social services minister , was outraged , as was the left in general , by his infelicitous use of key eugenic phrases such as ‘ human stock ’ , ‘ low intelligence ’ and ‘ these classes ’ . |
| 8 | The body had been covered by a thin layer of soil as was the practice when a soldier was killed in action and there was no time to move him to the rear . |
| 9 | The passionate faith in the deep influence of the soil on man might at first sight appear to be an idea which a Marxist regime could easily harness to its own ideology , as was the Russian peasant 's deeply ingrained sense of co-operative toil on the land , a notion likewise derived from his dvoeverie . |
| 10 | In fact the whole financial framework of NEP was shaky , and much of it was brought in piecemeal on ad hoc lines , as was the case with the vital currency reforms . |
| 11 | The orphans were one of these phenomena , as was the great Famine of 1921 2 . |
| 12 | The requirement of a visa was dropped in October 1990 as was the requirement to spend a set amount of money per day . |
| 13 | But Carrington , Pym , Walker , and , of course , Prior were there still , as was the equivocal figure of Whitelaw . |
| 14 | The ‘ mature ’ writer not only survives those renunciations , they help constitute his art , an art which will always finally take priority over the plight of the other even if , as was the case with Gide , it also succeeds in mitigating it . |
| 15 | Where large scale production existed it was carried out by slaves , as was the case with gold mining in the Asante kingdom . |
| 16 | There is a good argument for presenting these forms of corruption as consistent with past African practice , in which the chiefs position was acknowledged in tribute , as was the eighteenth-century practice in Europe , and nineteenth-century practice in the USA . |
| 17 | Fortunately the bridge was empty as was the long road of sycamores to the church in its dark evergreens . |
| 18 | The Allerton Bywater and Halkon Hunt matches were called off because of the ice as was the Doncaster event on the Idle where the river was frozen bank to bank . |
| 19 | The Daiwa League and Walton Opens on the Trent at Muskham were called off because of dangerous bankside conditions , as was the van den Eynde event at Long Eaton . |
| 20 | What Marx wants to stress here is that although Germanic tribes form quite large groups of people they do not form any kind of community with communal property , as was the case in the ancient city states ; they are merely ad hoc agglomerates . |
| 21 | At first the pairing family co-existed fairly easily with the gens , because it was not a formal organized institution as was the gens , and so the implications of the gens for such things as property and politics remained unchallenged . |
| 22 | Such dedication was admirable , as was the aerial ability of the birds , which wheeled and dived , pulled up over our heads , wheeled and dived again . |
| 23 | It was decided at an early stage that future designs could no longer be coach-built on separate custom-made chassis , as was the case with the now-deleted Bentley Continental and Rolls-Royce Corniche coupes ( which still exist as convertibles ) , but would have to be built on the regular production lines at Crewe alongside the conventional monocoque four-door saloon models . |
| 24 | And , as was the rest of the country , reflecting a growing prosperity . |
| 25 | The agreement on the liberalisation of air travel earlier this week was also seen as a promising step towards 1992 , as was the compromise deal on telecommunications reached on Thursday . |
| 26 | These are firsts , as was the winning of the US Women 's Open in successive years by first a British professional , then a European . |
| 27 | The difficulties arise when joint production with the US is involved , as was the case with the ABCA Mallard trunk communication system , or when outright US purchases of British manufactured weapons , like Rapier , are contemplated . |
| 28 | It seems to have been enough , as was the amount delivered by the big but war-disrupted relief programme that followed the 1987 drought . |
| 29 | But we never even walked arm-in-arm , as was the accepted way for conventional Spanish male friends or accomplices like the black-glassed Falangists . |
| 30 | Some earlier drawings show the panel as considerably less complete than it is now , suggesting that pieces were added in the eighteenth century , as was the common practice with fragmentary works . |