Example sentences of "as it [vb past] [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour lost the 1935 election because of its confusion over foreign policy , just as it had lost in 1931 because of its domestic failure . |
| 2 | But much more was needed , and in 1542 the government resorted , as it had done in 1522 , to a forced loan . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | After the war the industry was too depressed to re-equip itself as it had done in 1804 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |