Example sentences of "as was [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The religious element was a ploy , as was everything else . |
| 2 | The wind had gone down but the night had turned chilly and she shivered as she hurried towards the hospital gates , which were brightly picked out , as was everything else , by the moonlight . |
| 3 | The clients chose the dullest and safest of the half dozen submitted , as was their wont . |
| 4 | He accepted that those of English descent were decreasing as a percentage of the population but their cultural loyalty was as strong as ever , as was their influence in shaping American thought , especially through literature . |
| 5 | The horse was a symbol of potency and fertility , as was their horse goddess , Epona . |
| 6 | Ellie had barely started her own meal , but now she and Patsy had to get up , as was their required duty , to collect all the dirty crockery and bring in the pudding . |
| 7 | We may also assume that thereafter the police officers abstained , as was their duty under Code C , from conducting any further interviews with the applicant in relation to the offence with which he had been charged , save perhaps in the very limited respects permitted by Code C , to which I shall later refer . |
| 8 | And this was just one of a number of sites , known only to Halim and his team , where the early Chinese mariners had buried their dead together , as was their custom , with porcelain some of which had been fired in the imperial kilns of the Sung and Ming dynasties and dated back as far as the eleventh century . |
| 9 | They were seated , as was their custom , in the summer-house , where they had just finished a light lunch . |
| 10 | But it passed when he met his companions , as was their custom , and supped at the Golden Mitre . ’ |
| 11 | She had two adult children who lived nearby , and had stopped visiting them as was her usual custom . |
| 12 | The cornflower-blue dress she had brought to wear at the finals had been slept on by Ethel and was impossibly creased , as was her face after two nights sleeping in the car . |
| 13 | Mentally , as was her considered duty , Vi blessed the receding train , commending its occupants to the care of St Christopher . |
| 14 | Here Miss Wharton , as was her custom each Wednesday and Friday , would weed out the dead flowers from the vase in front of the statue of the Virgin , scrape the wax and candle stubs from the brass holders , dust the two rows of chairs in the Lady Chapel , which would be adequate for the small congregation expected at that morning 's early Mass , and make everything ready for the arrival at nine twenty of Father Barnes . |
| 15 | And then , as was her wont , she began to declaim ‘ The Lady of Shalott ’ to herself , to chant herself to sleep . |
| 16 | His first wife was interviewed , as was her mother , who talked much more extensively . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , ’ said Esther , changing tack abruptly , as was her way , ‘ what do we think we are going to think of the 1980s ? |
| 18 | Lying there at seven o'clock in the morning , suddenly wide awake , as was her manner , it seemed to her quite obvious that she and Charles should get divorced : it had surely long been inevitable , and if Charles really wanted to marry that woman ( or had he perhaps been joking ? — no , perhaps not ) , well then , let him . |
| 19 | She perched at its edge and let her pen , as was her wont , run automatically over the creamy paper . |
| 20 | But she was dead … as was her killer , who had taken weeks to die of Carrefour 's poison . |
| 21 | As was her whole body . |
| 22 | Constance , as was her wont , had paid her little attention , but her brothers had taken fright . |
| 23 | ‘ I felt that I should hire a fully fledges historian , and Dr Kathryn Castle was terribly important to this book , as was her husband Paul , who is also an academic . |
| 24 | She was , consequently , full of wedding plans when she came , as was her wont — for she considered it an inescapable part of her parish duties — to visit Lavinia Merchiston . |
| 25 | She would , as John Major knew , take her place on the platform on the Friday afternoon as was her due . |
| 26 | A study of the Atchee hunter gatherers in Paraguay show that a woman 's body weight was erm directly related to her reproductive success as was her age of menarche in other words the younger the younger menarche and the heavier the woman , the greater her lifetime reproductive success and this again er should n't surprise us . |
| 27 | She was also injured as was her son Ziggy , who 's 19 . |
| 28 | The role of Australia in all this is particularly important , as was its role in the successful campaign eventually to get a moratorium . |
| 29 | However , while the LEA maintained , as was its obligation , a global view of primary schools ' needs , heads and teachers in individual schools were less likely to do so . |
| 30 | The population sample was the largest ever for this kind of study , as was its timescale ( twenty-five years from 1960 to 1985 ) . |