Example sentences of "as had [noun] " in BNC.

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1 However , at the request of Prime Minister Petre Roman on March 21 they had withdrawn their resignations , as had Resources and Industry Minister Mihai Zisu ( whose offer to resign had officially been on health grounds ) .
2 On August 27 they awoke to find that food had gone on ration , as had petrol and many other necessities .
3 During cross examination Bobu , Dinca and Postelnicu at times wept openly , Bobu in particular confessing to " contemptible " conduct as the most senior member of the RCP leadership after Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu ( he had been with them during the first stage of their attempted escape on Dec. 22 , by helicopter from the central committee building in Bucharest , as had Manescu , who was a former Vice-President and Nicolae Ceausescu 's brother-in-law ) .
4 Nigel had been a very heavy smoker but had given it up eight years earlier , as had I.
5 No other country had such a highly educated corps of civil servants as had Germany .
6 He commanded a tank troop in the main assault on the Normandy beaches , and his death outside the village of St Pierre , 9 June 1944 , robbed English literature — as had Owen 's death in 1918 — of the most individual and accomplished poet of his generation .
7 The two ‘ Arminian ’ bishops of Chichester in the 1620s and 1630s , Richard Montague and Brian Duppa , clashed as surely with the local squires as had Bishop Curteys fifty years before , but this time the enraged Sussex gentry found no support in their appeals to the king ; not surprisingly , a substantial number of them saw Charles 's pretensions as a growing threat to their own social position and local prestige .
8 It was to change the life of the human race as much as had steam .
9 The tremendous amount of timber that had been used to construct the set had been donated , as had carpets and materials for curtains .
10 Architecture taken out of Palladio had been translated into English and published in England in 1663 , as had Gerbier 's Counsel and Advice to Builders .
11 Sheilagh , a farmer 's wife , had been widowed at the same time as had Mrs Knelle , and a bond had formed between them .
12 Newman and Nichols , in a study of a 60–80-year-old group in North Carolina , confirmed this and noted , as had Kinsey , that the extent of sexual activity in later years depends far more on the intrinsic sexual drive of the individual than on relative age considerations .
13 Lord Salisbury , who had a poor opinion of Clarke 's abilities ( as had Halsbury ) , wrote in much perplexity to the Lord Chancellor but saying that the Rolls should be offered to Clarke ‘ on party grounds ’ because he would do less harm as a judge than as Attorney-General .
14 As had Mr Kobold .
15 Dissanayake had competed with Premadasa for the ruling United National Party 's nomination as presidential candidate in 1988 ( as had Lalith Athulathmudali , now transferred from Agriculture to Education ) , and had subsequently differed with the President on such issues as the handling of the withdrawal of Indian troops from Sri Lanka .
16 The middle years of the last century were dominated in British geology by Sedgwick and Murchison , who both supported catastrophic doctrines all their lives ( though not in a strictly biblical sense as had Buckland before them ) .
17 Poland , the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia had had this status since mid-1989 [ see p. 37212 ] , as had Hungary until its accession in November 1990 [ see p. 37870 ] .
18 Frank had given more detailed advice on the educational side of things , as had Brian .
19 Robert Wise , the director of The Desert Rats , found Burton as agreeable and hard-working and as reliable , as had Henry Koster in Rachel .
20 as had Anchises
21 Legal mass organizations of workers , peasants , the urban poor and women had grown in strength as had organizations for people working in particular types of work — teachers , lawyers and health workers .
22 For Frederick II at Eger in 1213 ( as had Otto at Neuss ) , repudiated the whole imperial programme and the ambitions of his father , Henry VI , renouncing claims to all the land between Radicofani and Ceprano , the March of Ancona , the duchy of Spoleto , the Matildine lands , the county of Bertinoro , the exarchate of Ravenna , Pentapolis and the Massa Trabaria .
23 At some stage in the late tenth century , Lewes had supported two mints , as had Chichester .
24 Manuel Concha Martínez , an Economy Minister under the Pinochet military regime , had retired , as had Gen. Carlos Parera Silva .
25 As had Donald .
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