Example sentences of "as it [vb past] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stressed , however , that Pakistan had no intention of producing a bomb as it wished to concentrate on economic development . |
| 2 | Labour lost the 1935 election because of its confusion over foreign policy , just as it had lost in 1931 because of its domestic failure . |
| 3 | It must have been a popular book as it had gone to five editions by 1656 , and twenty-four editions by 1744 . |
| 4 | The crusaders had returned to their interstellar castle — which flew onward from nowhere to nowhere just as it had done for many millennia , and must continue to do for many millennia more . |
| 5 | The house looked as it had done for three centuries ; Lord Cumbermound was in no doubt that it would manage another three . |
| 6 | But much more was needed , and in 1542 the government resorted , as it had done in 1522 , to a forced loan . |
| 7 | The Imperial ambassador reported that the willing lenders never expected to see their money again : their pessimism was justified , since Parliament remitted all obligation on the King to repay , just as it had done in 1529 . |
| 8 | After the war the industry was too depressed to re-equip itself as it had done in 1804 . |
| 9 | Throughout the seventeenth century , and far into the eighteenth , the issue of precedence continued to arouse strong feeling and generate disputes as it had done in earlier generations . |
| 10 | It was achieved in a mood of almost stunned boredom amongst English opinion , confident that the dismantling of the United Kingdom as it had endured since 1707 or 1536 would not in fact take place . |
| 11 | This was attacked by Labour as dismantling the housing welfare programme as it had existed since 1945 , or perhaps since the Addison Act of 1919 . |
| 12 | Bombing during the war , the inadequacy of school provision as it had existed in 1939 , evacuation and the neglect of repairs , intense pressure upon the resources and materials available — all these combined to face Red Ellen and her permanent Secretary with a formidable task . |
| 13 | However , as members of the Cambridge Board Committee , both the District Chairman and Secretary were fully apprised of the details of the new arrangements and , presumably , acquiesced in the explicit transfer of providing powers under Chapter III for One-Year and Terminal courses in rural areas so that the complete scheme in Bedfordshire could be maintained as it had developed from 1927 . |
| 14 | He quickly realised that , tactically , the situation at Verdun was not quite as desperate as it had seemed at first sight . |
| 15 | No longer would youth and its culture have such a power to affect society as it had had for those brief few years from 1963 to 1967 : although the sharp end of youth culture was confusing purchasing power with political power and demanding change , many of its constituents were caught by the freeze that , introduced the previous year , signified the end of the ten-year boom that had thrust youth into prominence . |
| 16 | In 1933 roughly 4,000 banks shut their doors , and the United States was left with only half as many as it had had in 1929 . |
| 17 | Moreover , in Commission of the European Communities v. Hellenic Republic ( Case 305/87 ) [ 1989 ] E.C.R. 1461 , 1478 , para. 21 , the court pointed out that , as it had held on several occasions ( see , inter alia , Commission of the European Communities v. Italian Republic ( Case 63/86 ) [ 1988 ] E.C.R. 29 ) , the prohibition of all discrimination on grounds of nationality set out in article 52 of the E.E.C . |
| 18 | The slick , which formed after the vessel hit rocks and broke in two as it waited to dock in heavy seas off La Coruna , was being driven East into the Bay of Biscay towards popular resorts like San Sesbastian . |
| 19 | That capital and experience would give Lloyd 's a bigger , global strength , as it became dominated by fewer , larger groups . |
| 20 | It is clear that the relative positions of Geological Magazine and Proceedings of the Geologists Association have declined in the proportion of thesis-related material published , and that the Scottish Journal of Geology became the primary vehicle for first publication of research results derived from Ph D theses in Scottish geology as soon as it began publishing in 1965 . |
| 21 | It is clear that the relative positions of Geological Magazine and Proceedings of the Geologists Association have declined in the proportion of thesis-related material published , and that the Scottish Journal of Geology became the primary vehicle for first publication of research results derived from Ph D theses in Scottish geology as soon as it began publishing in 1965 . |
| 22 | This was the third Cabinet change since September [ see pp. 37702-03 ] and was thought to reflect growing tensions within the government as it tried to cope with military setbacks in the current civil war , an economic crisis and mounting social unrest , especially in the capital Mogadishu [ see pp. 37767-68 ] . |