Example sentences of "as it [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first edition of the Fact File , we gave a detailed description of the system as it operated before these changes . |
| 2 | They may range from a brief mention of a thirteenth-century tithe barn near the manor house , to a fully detailed true-to-scale plan of a building as it existed in earlier times , but which is now changed . |
| 3 | The Galactic War continued , as it had for many generations . |
| 4 | Its sluggish habit was not a hindrance , though , for it could kill with a mere glance or whiff of its breath , as it fed on poisonous herbs whose odour was fatal to man . |
| 5 | The second was a reaction to the concept of the EEC as a ‘ rich man 's club ’ , discriminating against its own poor through the CAP and through its VAT rates , just as it discriminated against poorer countries elsewhere in the world . |
| 6 | The car protested as it settled into muddy pools , heaved itself out , scraped through fields of boulders and crossed innumerable rickety bamboo bridges . |
| 7 | A further echo of the Koln Ju88 strike reverberated the following evening when most of the crew were out in Cambridge celebrating survival and , as it happened on these occasions , most crews had their own favourite watering places . |
| 8 | The stunt was practised in slow motion , before the cameras rolled and captured Crawford zooming between the lorry 's wheels as it moved at fifteen miles per hour . |
| 9 | The Giral government , consisting entirely as it did of bourgeois Republicans , was increasingly irrelevant to the new situation . |
| 10 | Consequently the project became as concerned with curriculum issues as it did with linguistic ones . |
| 11 | Egypt offers dazzling contrasts of desert and rich pastureland , architecture older even than the mud-built villages where life continues much as it did in Biblical times . |
| 12 | Perhaps because Western Christianity tended to express the faith in more rational and conceptual terms , mysticism never became as normative in popular and official piety as it did in other traditions . |
| 13 | Bacon 's case , occurring as it did after eighteen years of Stuart rule , can not be taken as evidence for judicial corruption under the Tudors . |
| 14 | Certainly the popular press fuelled doubt , focusing as it did upon particular schools which were in temporary disarray , and the failure of a few teachers was applied indiscriminately to the whole workforce . |
| 15 | Guests paid £25 per head for the two-hour function , but as it overran by three minutes , they gladly paid out an additional £25 . |
| 16 | Shortly before the 1927 Cup final , a series of bars with a football tied to them was installed in the St John 's College training ground adjacent to the club , so that players could practise kicking at the bars and trapping the ball as it rebounded at awkward angles . |
| 17 | Seconds later , the 400-ton cargo plane exploded in a fireball as it smashed into two blocks of flats — killing all four aboard and several hundred on the ground . |