Example sentences of "as it [vb past] [verb] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inflation would have some good effects , they felt ; it would impoverish the rentiers , reduce the burden of the national debt ( as it had done in France after World War I ) and transfer purchasing power to successful new businessmen and workers . |
| 2 | The USA had been under great pressure not to veto the sending of a UN mission , as it had done in May following the Rishon Le Zion massacre of Palestinian labourers [ see p. 37443 ] . |
| 3 | Except that they did not go , as promised , to the Rotunda , but went instead to a rival attraction advertised in Saunder 's News-Letter & Daily Advertiser : one , indeed , which ensured that Monsieur Jerricault 's Great Picture did not triumph in Dublin as it had done in London . |
| 4 | The game exploded into life very much as it had done in Glasgow . |
| 5 | NICRA probably meant to register its protest but to stop short of an actual confrontation , as it had done in Dungannon . |
| 6 | The world depression further demoralized the labour movement , as it had begun in Britain under a Labour government and struck hardest at the major centres of unionism and Labour support . |
| 7 | Above all , Mosley had tried to reassure the country that persecution of race or religion was against the fundamental tenets of Fascism as it had evolved in England . |
| 8 | Whenever scientific rhetoric assumed the form of a counterreligion , it could easily become a substitute religion , as it began to do in France during the revolutionary era . |