Example sentences of "as [conj] it was " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 2 | I think that the instructor should treat the first flight on a particular glider as if it was the first flight of the day , and on subsequent flights he should just check for full and free movement and that the surfaces are moving fully . |
| 3 | as if it was penance . |
| 4 | I could write as if it was someone else … ’ |
| 5 | At the very least , the exhibition provides food for thought : as the 21st century nears , do we really want architecture that looks as if it was built in the 18th ? |
| 6 | A spokesman for British Gas said : ‘ It appears that gas was involved , although it looks as if it was a deliberate release rather than an accidental one . ’ |
| 7 | It has now emerged that the fraud was carried out by using the credit to pay back money to International Signal and Control as if it was the customer making stage payments on the contract . |
| 8 | The fatal , fateful thing was that for a century the device appeared to work : Canada felt and behaved as if it was still part of the empire . |
| 9 | It sounded as if it was meant . |
| 10 | The American film-maker Maya Deren says somewhere that ‘ response should always precede analysis ’ , a remark which sounds as if it was made as an artist 's challenge to academic dryness and formalism . |
| 11 | The only let-downs are cabin styling which looks as if it was lifted directly from the Corolla and an overall lack of identity . |
| 12 | By the second week , it looked as if it was going to catch on . |
| 13 | Another amusing incident to come out of ‘ Space Oddity ’ was when I got a phone call from David one day , who said he had to record an Italian version of the song because two kids in Italy had apparently done a cover version of it and as it looked as if it was going to do quite well , the Italian record company wanted a version by the original artist and said they would send someone along to teach Bowie phonetically how to sing the song . |
| 14 | We sometimes use the term ‘ equity ’ , or words corresponding to it , in popular language as if it was something altogether outside law . |
| 15 | She sounded as if it was something he was going to be pleased about . |
| 16 | It sounded as if it was somewhere up in the farm buildings . |
| 17 | He had said that he was ‘ married with one son ’ on his book jacket , too , as if it was some unusual career . |
| 18 | One of the most remarkable things about the Peniel story is that the larger narrative proceeds almost entirely as if it was not there . |
| 19 | ‘ Yes , Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke , I will , ’ I said as if it was the one thing in the world I wanted to do . |
| 20 | Here 's a crusty roll — must n't show my ignorance and cut it with a knife , have to tear it to pieces as if it was my worst enemy . |
| 21 | Looks as if it was designed in a multi-million pound research and development department ? |
| 22 | It almost seemed as if it was moving further away with each stride . |
| 23 | Tammuz waved a hand , examining the remains of his meal as if it was a valuable artefact . |
| 24 | It 's a very difficult moral question , and it does no good to talk as if it was a simple black and white issue . ’ |
| 25 | For much of Act I , too , Jonathan Summers 's Posa seemed as if it was to be a rough-and-ready performance by this gifted baritone . |
| 26 | ‘ No , ’ replied Jamie , looking at a fly on the table as if it was a long-lost brother . |
| 27 | In fact Claude Bernard , in 1856 , described mucus as ‘ enclosing the gastric juice as in a vase so impermeable as if it was made of porcelain ’ . |
| 28 | Her cheek pressed flat between his shoulders , Mariana clung to Trent as if it was only her strength that saved them from disintegration . |
| 29 | Pulsatilla LM1 produced a response within 3 days when her mouth felt as if it was coated with glue and then she suddenly found she could smell again ! |
| 30 | His paintings were rather angular , with the nose , in particular , appearing as if it was glued to the canvas in an echo of Cubism . |