Example sentences of "as it [vb past] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | For example , the law of supply and demand , as it operated in nineteenth-century England , he argues , was not simply a matter of eternal logic , nor were such rights as that of private property self-evident truths , but rather they were the product of particular historical circumstances . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Ivory continued to serve many of the same purposes in Christendom as it did in Classical antiquity . |
5 | In a constructional sense the arch never dominated Italian Romanesque work as it did in northern Europe ; it remained as in Roman times , more decorative than constructional in its purpose . |
6 | The transmutation of elements has an important place in modern nuclear physics ( as it did in mediaeval alchemy ) but ran completely counter to the aims of Dalton 's atomistic programme . |
7 | Because that misidentification insisted on making trade unions the vehicle for it but insisted also on the continuance of their traditional role , the outcome was bound to be primarily about an extension of their power in the performance of that role , the role that implicates trade unionism as the reciprocal to the ownership of the means of production and provision within the total system , Capitalism , as it evolved in Victorian Britain . |
8 | That consciousness , as it emerged in 19th-century Europe , was situated somewhere in the quadrilateral described by the points People-State-Nation- Government . |
9 | Haynes and Jack Henry Moore , who worked with him on the project , planned to be , as It predicted in late April , ‘ as experimental and as international as the Lord Chamberlain will allow ’ . |