Example sentences of "[conj] as it was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another lovely walk that the family occasionally took was to West Harnham or as it was known locally ‘ Watery Harnham ’ , a fitting nickname for there was always plenty in the rivers , streams and water meadows . |
| 2 | Erm on the supplementary paper sent round you will see at I think it 's page one and two , a letter received from the Carters Mead Resident 's Association erm I hope you 've all had a chance to read that as it was circulated to members in advance . |
| 3 | And as it was revealed house prices were still falling , Nat West chairman Lord Alexander said : ‘ There is continuing , widespread deep recession in the UK . ’ |
| 4 | In the period since the Second World War , political stability , economic growth , and a broad societal consensus , meant that the constitution as it was , as it was said to be , and as it was said it should be , were all seen as of one , pulling together in mutual support in a way that called for " no change " . |
| 5 | Simply expressed , the set-up as it was , as it was said to be , and as it was said it should be , had all pulled apart in a way that called for change . |
| 6 | He seeks to restore the status quo as it was between July 1990 and September 1991 and as it was confirmed by the Australian court in the divorce proceedings . |
| 7 | A somewhat different case is García Márquez 's One Hundred Years of Solitude which recounts the history of the small town of Macondo , not so much as it actually happened , but as its inhabitants experienced and interpreted it and as it was transmitted by popular oral tradition . |
| 8 | There seemed nothing I could usefully add to whatever Henniker might be doing , and as it was getting on for half past twelve I decided to find a pub and a sandwich . |
| 9 | The judge Mr Justice described it as heavy and as it was handed to members of the jury he warned them not to drop it . |
| 10 | There were no further messages on the tape , and as it was switched off Lucy found her thoughts being dragged unwillingly back to the question of Doreen Andrews . |
| 11 | If he had had his way , he would have stayed in Wilson 's house all day long and as it was managed to be there a good half of it . |
| 12 | Possibly the building industry was one of the most substantial in the country , but as it was based on small local units it is virtually impossible to study . |
| 13 | Croll failed in arithmetic but as it was acknowledged by Lord Kelvin that he had calculated the precession of the equinoxes over the last 10 million years , his mathematical ability was accepted . |
| 14 | For much of the broadcast he was answering questions put by two interviewers , but as it was drawing to a close he suddenly began reading from a prepared text , declaring : " I warned in 1987 that Gorbachev has in his character an aspiration for absolute personal power . |
| 15 | I was unable to see his face but as it was getting dark , I was not surprised . |
| 16 | But as it was accepted into this relatively formal literary genre , [ h ] -loss seems to have been much less overtly stigmatized than it is today . |
| 17 | The north wing of the school would have made three extra units , but as it was rented out to the health club , the new owners decided to maintain this arrangement . |
| 18 | I mean if if I 'd done that this morning and I 'd written it all up before you came in and then said well what we 've done is this and then we did that and then we did that but as as it was generated as we discussed then then you were with me I hope at the way it went |
| 19 | Er , there were one or two of us , not many we helped the er Communist Party branch proper , in their campaigns for er council elections , er sales of the er of the Daily Worker , as as as it was known er in those days . |