Example sentences of "as it was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the counterfeit currency used by the DEA was supplied by Monzer al-Kassar , who received no separate payment for this service as it was covered by his regular CIA stipend deposited to his credit at the Katherein Bank , Vienna ( A/c No. 50307495 ) and at the Swiss Bank Corporation in Geneva ( A/c No. 510230C-86 ) . |
| 2 | Robert had been called up in the First Militia , as it was named , the beginning of National Service which was to continue until some years after the war ended . |
| 3 | The Caledonian Canal , as it was named , was an immediate success but its use declined with the coming of railways and faster forms of transport . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | One after another they stepped up and gripped the stump of chalk which snapped in their fingers as soon as it was pressed to the board , sputtered and crumbled when they tried to move it , or let out a squeak to turn the teeth round in your gums . |
| 6 | Men went down the main shaft and tried to clear it by shovelling the slurry into tubs which were then hauled to the surface but this was soon abandoned as it was realised that it would take weeks or months to clear a way through to the trapped men . |
| 7 | However , it is obviously as much a waste of funds to give money to privatisation of the coal industry as it was to give money for the poll tax . |
| 8 | Ethel Walker 's visions are attempts to bring all the glory of her idea of heaven , as it was inspired by Swedenborg , within the reach of our sensibilities . |
| 9 | Then keeper Peter Turtle stopped a John Smyth pile-driver , but made a quick recovery to grab the ball as it was trickling over the line . |
| 10 | Resting on three stones above the flames was a large copper pan full of milk , which Sigarup stirred from time to time as it was boiling . |
| 11 | It broke up into tiny specks as it was blown across the painting and gave a nice granular texture to the whole surface . |
| 12 | Well erm it , oh well I mean it is better in as much as it was sticking out like that |
| 13 | It was as difficult to record the casual speech of Zuwaya as it was to take an unposed photograph . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But , as it was built , it should not now be demolished . |
| 16 | The cannery was abandoned almost as soon as it was built . |
| 17 | And most of them moved down to Green as soon as it was built . |
| 18 | The former is of unusual design as it was built in two storeys ( largely in the fourteenth century ) , one church above the other . |
| 19 | The interior shows the basic form much as it was built , though it has been stripped of its decoration . |
| 20 | Yes you 're actually e sitting outside the original house , as it was built cos we had a room put on for the the back here originally . |
| 21 | He decided it would go as it was written while he proceeded with other matters . |
| 22 | Here , his prodigious talent and sensitivity have produced a stunning masterpiece which interprets every note as it was written , yet adds a freshness and vitality that are rarely captured on recorded works . |
| 23 | ‘ We knew , just by looking at it , there was no way we could do the scene exactly as it was written , so we compromised . |
| 24 | If he has decided not to read out the query as it was written , he must ensure that it becomes part of the record . |
| 25 | This statement needs treating with care , as it was written after 1016 , by an annalist rather free with allegations of treachery , who was aware of Eadric 's defection to Cnut in 1015 . |
| 26 | Through the early 1960s , it refused to join a common front of uranium export suppliers as long as it was treated differently by Canada from the United States and United Kingdom over sales of uranium . |
| 27 | The new President , the Premier , the two Deputy Premiers and the Defence Minister all held seats in the People 's Great Hural which they were required to give up , as it was stipulated that Cabinet post-holders could not concurrently serve as deputies to the assembly . |
| 28 | As it was stipulated that each segment be long enough to obey Gaussian statistics , short relaxation times may not allow a segment sufficient time to rearrange and regain this distribution . |
| 29 | In A Song to David , which must have been written in the asylum , as it was publicised soon after his release , David , who represents the poet and is thus a symbol for Smart himself , leads the hymn of Adoration in which all Creation joins , every creature making his individual and characteristic contribution . |
| 30 | On my second outing with the boots I was trying to assess how watertight they were as it was raining heavily . |