Example sentences of "as [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , Dudek 's scholarship was of a more penetrating kind than anything under which Leonard had yet sat , or was to sit , as became that of a Doctor of Letters from Columbia University . |
| 2 | For example , if we had desired to add to P1 , we could , instead , have added C , but then , as soon as became non-basic ( after the first pivot ) , drop and its column . |
| 3 | Tait , with William Thomson , had published a Treatise on Natural Philosophy in 1867 which became a standard advanced textbook because it treated physics from the point of view of conservation of energy — fathering the doctrine , as became two Cambridge men , upon Newton : the ‘ return to Newton ’ was for them the key to modernity . |
| 4 | popular anger against inequalities in the distribution of food could be swiftly transferred into a grim determination to defeat the Hun , as became clear when the military stalemate broke in March 1918 . |
| 5 | They , as became self-conscious representatives of the Cohen tradition — austere , genteel , ‘ polished ’ — were not taken to the spontaneous expressions of liveliness which Masha 's Judaism exhibited . |
| 6 | Writing as a cultural technique is wholly dependent on forms of specialized training , not only ( as became common in other techniques ) for producers but also , and crucially , for receivers . |
| 7 | In this campaign he led a large body of troops , as befitted such a powerful prince , but due to the continuing disputes between himself and Barbarossa , he abandoned the imperial cause at the siege of Allessandria . |
| 8 | As befitted such a gift it represented a rich accumulation of the past from several sources . |
| 9 | " Adrian , " she said in a level voice that surprised her , " if you so much as lay one finger on me , I swear I 'll tear you to pieces . |
| 10 | More than 100,000 people outside the Congress building celebrated , as did millions of people around the country ; one street demonstration completely blocked the city of Sao Paulo . |
| 11 | Only 12 per cent of married women had ‘ non-state pension ’ income from these two sources compared with 67 per cent of married men , as did 34 per cent of widows ( 60 per cent of widowers ) , 28 per cent of separated/divorced women ( 46 per cent men ) and 47 per cent of single women ( 46 per cent men ) ( ibid . , |
| 12 | Norris ended with two goals , as did fellow striker Dave Lancaster . |
| 13 | The party divisions between leading reformers such as Lloyd George , Mosley and Macmillan also hindered co-operation , as did personal hostility within political parties ( on all occasions between Mosley and Ernest Bevin in the Labour movement and intermittently between Lloyd George and Keynes in the Liberals ) . |
| 14 | Both Kepler Wessels and Adrian Kuiper , the respective captains , scored centuries as did Western Province opener Terence Lazard while World Cup squad batsman Mark Rushmere was also in the runs . |
| 15 | These sometimes interrupted the schedules , as did extensive reportage of elections , of local Assemblies . |
| 16 | More optimistically , facilities management company Northern Computing Services , acquired in May , returned to profit as did Integrated Engineering Products Ltd , which is seeing in 1993 with healthy order books . |
| 17 | His second wife also predeceased him , as did one of the two sons of his first marriage . |
| 18 | Midday came and passed , as did one o'clock and two o'clock , without the parade being ready to move off . |
| 19 | Another trick is for the dealer to buy his stock through a friend , particularly when he has special knowledge that the price will go up , as did one dealer on Helical Bar a well known property company in the UK whose share price then sky-rocketed from its post crash low . |
| 20 | The younger Walter , who seems to have succeeded his father in the service of the City of London as its official chronologer , remained on the council staff until 1660 , as did one of his brothers , a third having died in its service earlier , and a fourth having been appointed to the staff of the council in Ireland under Henry Cromwell [ q.v . ] . |
| 21 | In family B , all members had unique strains of H pylori as did one member of family M and the two unrelated individuals . |
| 22 | This hit carpets and furniture retailing particularly hard , as did new furniture fire regulations brought in by the European Commission piecemeal . |
| 23 | Mr and Mrs Martin 's Burble flock , run at 153m ( 500ft ) above sea level at Southwaite , near Carlisle , began , as did many of today 's most successful flocks , in the late 1970s . |
| 24 | Before 1967 Israel assumed , as did many others , that since the Palestinian Arabs had not achieved nationhood they would soon assimilate into the Arab host countries neighbouring Israel , if the latter had half a mind to allow it to happen . |
| 25 | Before the introduction of the workmen 's train , all the men from these two villages walked along the canal towpath to Wolverton , as did many afterwards who could not afford the fare . |
| 26 | Pauling thought both structures would actually exist , as did many other crystallographers engaged in unravelling the three-dimensional structures of proteins . |
| 27 | I spent the summer in hard training in the gym and on the track in preparation for the coming season , as did many other players . |
| 28 | The term ‘ gender ’ as applied to grammar originated , as did many other grammatical terms , in the linguistic scholarship of ancient Greece — it is usually credited to protagoras . |
| 29 | We could wear the liberal ‘ scientific ’ pair , as did many young trendy academics during the 1960s and early 1970s when the stars of interactionism and phenomenology were in the ascendant . |
| 30 | Not only were nearly three-fifths of the people here unable to scrape together sufficient personal property to reach the tax threshold of £2 , but none got the alternative of 20s. wages in the year , as did many in the Midland and southern counties who were in the same position . |