Example sentences of "was as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The referendum proposal was as follows . |
| 2 | Yet it was as though that night , in the moonlight , in the silence , as though even the work , the months of steady labour , had only been an illusion , only the dream of work , the dream of progress , and I had not even begun and never would begin , though at different moments in my life I might have had the illusion that I had begun and even , perhaps , finished . |
| 3 | Sonja was as usual being difficult and her mother was trying to strike an impossible balance between calming her down and getting her to do as she was told . |
| 4 | It was as though I had been deprived of my rights , as elder sister , to the first go at something . |
| 5 | The door was as rooted in the wall as a pine-tree in the ground . |
| 6 | It was as if he were memorizing her life so he could sail to New York , adopt a different accent , and claim to be a long lost relative due a piece of her fortune which had n't been considerable and might all be gone now . |
| 7 | The damage this did to our criticism was as nothing compared with the harm it did to our poetry . |
| 8 | And last Monday Dr Harold Varmus let it be known that the thrill of winning the Nobel Prize for Medicine in the morning was as nothing compared with being at Candlestick Park in the evening to see the Giants take the National League pennant for the first time in 27 years . |
| 9 | The first was as stated in the conditions of his appointment ; but there were two other political reasons which will be examined later . |
| 10 | The films were inevitably foreign and subtitled , and even if we did n't understand them it was as though through exposure to some cinematic photosynthesis we would absorb the esoteric and become all the better intellectually for it . |
| 11 | It was as though they were marching up great soaring bridges to get on to the screen , where they would enter into the films we had come to see . |
| 12 | Sometimes it was as though the risk and the pleasure had grown together , nourishing each other . |
| 13 | The State for Engels and Marx was as we saw , a tool by which the dominant class maintained its position . |
| 14 | At the same time the wife 's role was to serve , and this modest withdrawal was as it were a part of the service . |
| 15 | This was as crushing a demonstration as we have seen from Senna and McLaren-Honda . |
| 16 | It was as though he had a point to prove . |
| 17 | It was as though the clouds were not themselves mere vapour but impermeable sagging sacks , purposely constructed and hung to contain water . |
| 18 | It was as though an extraordinary story — a great mythology , with half-forgotten legends , languages and lore — had been unfolding in his head from the time he began to think ; and his appreciation of the Old Literature was at the deepest level imaginative and creative . |
| 19 | Her last movie was as Patty McCormack 's mother in The Young Runaways in 1968 , but she toured with stock company stage productions in the ‘ 70s . |
| 20 | But if February was dreadful , it was as nothing compared with March . |
| 21 | It was as near a cost-neutral reform as was practical . |
| 22 | But today it was as though Doyle and the Woman needed to be together , even though they were not talking . |
| 23 | His voice was quiet , but the effect , after their long silence , was as though he had shouted . |
| 24 | My own solitude was as nothing compared with their constantly patrolled loneliness , without hope of escape . |
| 25 | Then I made one last journey through the house , the precincts , and the gardens , to see that all was as it should be , and to say goodbye . |
| 26 | Charity was as he had first known her , the chill turning to ice . |
| 27 | Still , life was as it should be — people with time to talk , relax and enjoy the company of each other and dogs and animals . |
| 28 | It was as though men , American men particularly , underwent a wave of nostalgia for maternal breast memories . |
| 29 | It was as though the unwanted debris from a dozen mansions had been dumped in a single , overcrowded space . |
| 30 | It was as though the creature had never existed ; or had only existed in Mungo 's imagination . |