Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bike Sub-Committee was still being urged to proceed , yet a month later the subject was adjourned , only to be urged on again the month following — ‘ so long as it had a corrugated iron roof ’ , presumably a financial stringency to keep the cost down to £15 . |
| 2 | So long as it had appeared to be an alternative force to the Labour party , he kept clear . |
| 3 | So long as the House was not bound by strict party ties and so long as it had control of the major part of its own timetable , the general task of commenting on and questioning government policy was relatively simple . |
| 4 | This was manifested in a number of ways , particularly in that pupils still in their second year in the mixed ability classes would be talking about playing with their friends and generally their attitudes towards the teenage culture of pop music and magazines and fashions and discotheques did n't seem to develop so quickly as it had in the streamed situation , and I think really this comes from the problem of those pupils in the streamed situation — in the bottom streams in particular — who found that they wanted alternatives to school when they were in an inferior position in the school . |
| 5 | This was manifested in a number of ways , particularly in that pupils still in their second year in the mixed ability classes would be talking about playing with their friends , and generally their attitudes towards the teenage culture of pop music and magazines and fashions and discotheques did n't seem to develop so quickly as it had in the streamed situation . |
| 6 | This was manifested in a number of ways , particularly in that pupils still in their second year in the mixed ability classes would be talking about playing with their friends , and generally their attitudes towards the teenage culture of pop music and magazines and fashions and discotheques did n't seem to develop so quickly as it had in the streamed situation . |
| 7 | Paschal 's grant of 1103 certainly extended the primacy to Anselm 's successors , but only so far as it had been ‘ enjoyed by Anselm 's predecessors ’ . |
| 8 | By now they were almost halfway down , the drop not so far as it had been , but it was still a long way and Maggie almost crept to the slight shelter of the rocky bank . |
| 9 | I find that an extraordinary statement of policy , because I had always believed that , in so far as it had any justification at all , the Labour party 's commitment to unilateralism , to the closure of bases , to the withdrawal from NATO , was based on a principle — on a deeply held conviction that those things were wrong . |
| 10 | The knowledge that the larger margin was there for the taking , if you were bold enough to seize it , exercised him as much now as it had done back in 1973 . |
| 11 | As a result , by the end of the decade , output per person in manufacturing was half as much again as it had been at the start of the decade . |
| 12 | When human life could be expected to last two or three times as long as it had done in the Middle Ages , great changes were bound to occur in the way men thought about themselves . |
| 13 | The mortaring stopped just as suddenly as it had started , and it was quiet again . |
| 14 | Then it cut off as suddenly as it had started . |
| 15 | Then , just as suddenly as it had appeared , it dived , sliding back into the earth at an immense speed . |
| 16 | The pain had left as suddenly as it had come , except for a small reminder in her back . |
| 17 | It died as suddenly as it had risen . |
| 18 | When we actually reached the reef , with calm water erupting into foaming waves twenty feet high as they hit the rocks , the Mantela bucked like a frightened horse , sank into a trough , reared up again , and then , as suddenly as it had started , the old tub was through the creamy foam of the passage and had settled into the lazy waters of the lagoon . |
| 19 | It fell silent as suddenly as it had begun . |
| 20 | Hari 's wash of hurt pride and anger vanished as suddenly as it had come , though she realized that Craig 's words were no more than flattery . |
| 21 | But just as suddenly as it had begun all this ended three years later , leaving the halls deserted . |
| 22 | I was buried alive , the pummelling stopped as suddenly as it had started , I heaved myself up and the earth and muck fell off me . |
| 23 | Lacuna 's anger had disappeared as suddenly as it had arrived . |
| 24 | The beating ceased , as suddenly as it had begun . |
| 25 | I could sense Lili turning her head to look at me , but the urge to talk , to confess , had left me as suddenly as it had come . |
| 26 | He thought for a moment that it might be some kind of game , that their running would cease as suddenly as it had begun , that they 'd stand like statues on the sand , waiting for him to catch up with them . |
| 27 | But his words had deflated Robbie 's anger as suddenly as it had blown up . |
| 28 | Once Baldwin 's decision was made , the right-wing plot collapsed as suddenly as it had grown up and , as always after prolonged but successful mental strain , he felt free . |
| 29 | The burst of enthusiasm died as swiftly as it had kindled . |
| 30 | But to be told that he could not make it was to be told that this gift could disappear as unpredictably as it had arrived . |