Example sentences of "as it [was/were] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the heating was off it had been cold , but he had comforted himself with the thought that it was not as cold as it was outside where many of the animals were . |
| 2 | Too great a reliance on self-financing would , however , require prices which were well above long-run costs ( or as it was differently but conventionally expressed in the contemporary discussion by officials , would burden present-day consumers with an unfair proportion of the costs of supplying electricity in the future ) . |
| 3 | is this erm looking at the a Moving on to look at the erm this area for actual for traders and so on , is it as attractive erm for traders to actually move into the area , as it was previously or or not ? |
| 4 | In the film , one of them , Dr Tony Kallend , appeared to explain that acid rain was nothing to be worried about as it was only as acid as Coca Cola . |
| 5 | Blindcraft , which is based at Peffer Place in the city , has a history dating back to 1793 as it was then that the Edinburgh Asylum for the Relief of the Industrious Blind was set up . |
| 6 | The air around each of them is by no means as sweet-smelling as it was then and the water that flows over the falls into the harbour is certainly not as pure . |
| 7 | he passed his eleven plus as it was then and er he went to a school called Regent Street Grammar school in Plymouth and when we moved in here I had to go to Holly House , I think they call it |
| 8 | I should like to commend to Members the text of the Inaugural meeting of the BIE in London in 1927 much of which is as relevant today as it was then and it will only be by the commitment of you the members that the Institute will improve and ultimately progress . |
| 9 | ‘ Is your view about them today the same as it was then or do you now feel you might have acted differently ? ’ |
| 10 | the two interpretations were combined in late antiquity by the Stoics , who believed that , when the heavenly bodies return at fixed intervals of time to the same relative positions as they had at the beginning of the world , everything would be restored just as it was before and the entire cycle would be renewed in every detail . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll make it , ’ Maggie told him , crossing to the range where the kettle was boiling , as it was more or less constantly throughout the day . |