Example sentences of "as it [vb past] for the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The Gould machine was set like clockwork to continue ticking as methodically for the next two years as it had for the last eight .
2 AS GOOD as it got for the deranged Los Angeles combo .
3 His remarks , in a Daily Telegraph interview , triggered protests from right-wing Tory MPs and pitched the Cabinet into more controversy as it met for the first time since the summer break .
4 His remarks , in a Daily Telegraph interview , triggered protests from right-wing Tory MPs and pitched the Cabinet into more controversy as it met for the first time since the summer break .
5 He has also pointed out that the future did not loom so large for them as it did for the Roman historians , who were anxious about the fate of their empire .
6 As I understand it the Cleveland structure plan proposes the same number of dwellings for erm its next period which happens to be fourteen years , as it did for the last fourteen of the of the previous structure plan , fifteen thousand seven hundred .
7 The ‘ Snap ’ camera was used with the supplied software , ( not suitable as it stood for the required measuring instrument ) .
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