as though it was vs as though it were

Some examples from the web:

• I say as though it was something ordinary.
• Then your father started yelling at me, as though it was my fault.
• You can't just walk in here as though it was your house.
• She told me you could look at it as though it was some kind of historical site.
• And I got sick of hearing that it would go away as soon as we got down to the basic problem, as though it was in me.
• What they should not be doing in the Balkan countries is trading their sovereignty as though it was a commodity, for that way lies great disappointment.
• Of course, it is not enough to keep referring to multilateralism over and over again as though it was some mantra.
• But there he was, in the temple, debating and arguing with the priests as though it was the most natural thing in the world.
• For my part, what I wanted us to do was just to look at terrorism as though it was a global brand, say, Coca-Cola.
• Because it was as though it was him again... and that was who he was, a musician on stage, playing for his fans.
• Imagine if a team of surgeons could fly into the brain, as though it was a world, and see tissues as landscapes, and hear blood density levels as music.
• But you shudder at the touch of my hands as though it was the touch of death.
• because I had to get the horse to rear up and look as though it was in some kind of action.
• To get the symmetrical shape of the horse was very difficult, because I had to get the horse to rear up and look as though it was in some kind of action.
• I can still see it as though it was yesterday.
• - It sounded as though it was bricks.
• A man has just dropped dead in her shop and she's pretending to go about her business as though it was of little consequence.
• But still painful as though it was a blow to the head.
• No, you said it as though it was all one night.
• Somebody who faced every day as though it was a new danger and a new feeling of excitement.

Some examples from the web:

• You say that as though it were just a technicality.
• People experience pretend empathy as though it were the real thing.
• Palestinians and Egyptians could run this border, but Israel insists on maintaining a presence in the area, as though it were another of its checkpoints.
• The point is thoroughly justified, and the only pity is that anyone should defend the abolition of aid for exports as though it were a kind of religious creed.
• Pre ran every race as though it were his last.
• My brother played cricket as though it were a battle to the death.
• And I tried to live as though it were true.
• He mentioned your name as though it were only vaguely familiar.
• But I can't consummate this thing as though it were a marriage.
• I feel her heart beating as though it were my own.
• To live this year as though it were my last.
• North Korea is a country which behaves as though it were free of all moral obligations.
• Referring to the Lisbon Treaty as though it were a fact of life merely serves to reinforce this democratic deficit.
• Yet again, 'his master's voice' speaks and most Members of the European Parliament trot out the US policy on Cuba as though it were their own.
• Some comments have been made here about the failure of policy as though it were farmers' fault.
• Thirteen years it's been, and yet... ...here you stand before me as though it were only yesterday.
• Yes, if you imagine it as though it were real.
• Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Swedish and Spanish Presidencies have made Turkey's membership of the European Union a priority topic, as though it were now a foregone conclusion.
• Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, I think the question of small and medium-sized undertakings is often discussed from the wrong ideological perspective, as though it were a matter of finally achieving Adam Smith's utopia of a society of lots of small producers.
• You find someone to love, and live every day as though it were your last.