Example sentences of "as it [was/were] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The House , as it was simply called , was a profitable little concern and it had been part of Agnes 's work since she had left school , six years ago , to see to the laundry , and with Maggie 's help , to its cleaning . |
| 2 | She told them that she and Mike were going to be married very soon and they could have a look at her wedding dress as it was nearly finished . |
| 3 | This anomaly became known as the West Lothian question as it was continuously raised by Tam Dalyell , the Labour Member for West Lothian and a firm opponent of devolution . |
| 4 | They offer master volume , tone ( which seemed to introduce a fair bit of interference into the signal as it was progressively turned ) and a centre-notched pickup blend . |
| 5 | The limpness of the body as it was thus laid in place was pitiful . |
| 6 | Since 1983 numbers at the Beacon continued to fall as it was increasingly seen as a resource for children with severe and multiple disabilities . |
| 7 | The Act of Proclamations , as it was finally passed in 1539 , contains in its preamble some resonant phrases about regal power , but added relatively little to the King 's authority : proclamations were given a statutory base and a special court was established for their enforcement . |
| 8 | His father suggested going to the Home Office , but then agreed that it would be futile as it was probably implicated . |
| 9 | We did not see the signal as it was fast approaching time for our departure from York , but just before we left Mr Hopkin he informed us that there were also tickets , buttons , maybe som small brass fittings , an 1864 rail chair and possibly the original chimney of Carlisle from before her 1924 heavy overhaul . |
| 10 | These addressing modes are a superset of the PDP-11 addressing modes with one exception , the PDP-11 addressing mode auto-decrement deferred was omitted from VAX as it was rarely used . |
| 11 | The Youth Club of the Paris Commune as it was officially known , or the ‘ Paree ’ as its more irreverent members called it , was a gimcrack affair , cracked concrete and cheap plastic panels , tucked beside the inevitable block of flats , and a health centre , but it was well equipped : table tennis , television , a library , a concert room , a rather more substantial annexe for weight lifting , a hall which doubled up for meetings of the Free German Youth and dancing , and a comfortable lounge where one could buy coffee and soft drinks . |
| 12 | It follows that the echolocation technology has been independently developed in bats and birds , just as it was independently developed by British , American and German scientists . |
| 13 | We could not see whether it was a man or a woman , as it was completely covered with sheets . |
| 14 | Since it was primarily a historical display rather than an art exhibition , the Deutsches Historisches Museum was chosen as a venue , particularly as it was already experienced in working with American museums . |
| 15 | Still less was it — as it was later perceived to have been — a symptom of a fatal weakening of imperial nerve . |
| 16 | However , the runner-up may have been an unlucky loser as it was later discovered that he had raced with a injured heel . |
| 17 | Great though improvements in European agriculture had been and were to be , it was industry which gave Europe world leadership , as it was later to give it to the United States . |
| 18 | Like many other such dreams , this one did not work out and the reason would seem to be that same old American resistance to working seriously in FI — it happened with Roger Penske , it happened with Parnelli as it was later to happen with Karl Haas . |
| 19 | Foremost amongst the protesters was the Rev. Al Sharpton , a black clergyman , who appeared on Aug. 1 in the company of Tawana Brawley , a black teenager who in 1987 had claimed , falsely as it was later proved , that she had been abducted and raped by a group of white men . |
| 20 | At first , the plan was quite modest and not even crudely geometric , as it was later to become . |
| 21 | In numbers , the Royal Navy was the strongest in the world , although its superiority was not so great as it was later to become . |
| 22 | Interestingly , the manuscript regarded as providing the best text of the poem , Bibliothèque National fr.19152 , labels the work a " " fable " " in the first line while the other copies read " " fabliaus " " or " " fableaus " " , suggesting that the category of fabliau may not have been so clearly defined and recognized at this early date as it was later to become . |
| 23 | Egyptian sculptors had long known far more than their first Greek emulators about the structure of the human body , but the general effect of their work is ( as it was surely meant to be ) much less alive . |
| 24 | It was the forerunner of the microfilm information system , as it was also conceived for rural services , but its use is now far wider . |
| 25 | Amongst the great majority , the faith of earlier centuries persisted , at least outwardly ; indeed , if we look for a movement of thought and feeling that by the end of the century had penetrated into every class of society except the highest , we shall find it in the revival of ‘ vital religion ’ , or ‘ enthusiasm ’ , as it was also called . |
| 26 | Like its namesake in Prague a decade before , the ‘ Beijing Spring ’ as it was also referred to , had unfortunate consequences . |
| 27 | There were thirty-two plays in the Wakefield cycle , or Towneley cycle as it was also known when it formed part of the library of Towneley Hall in Burnley . |
| 28 | Burnside water , as it was aptly called , is now the headquarters building rebuilt in the 1920's as a multi storey plate glass building of some note at that time . |
| 29 | She had , during that time , said nothing about man , wife or child : her conversation was , as it was predominantly to remain , purely descriptive and immediate to herself . |
| 30 | Bodie glanced at the wreck of the Stones ' car as it was slowly winched back across the pavement by the police breakdown truck . |