Example sentences of "[adv] as it [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Giral government , consisting entirely as it did of bourgeois Republicans , was increasingly irrelevant to the new situation . |
| 2 | It explained everything , though she fought it , fought the nightmare truth of her growing feelings for him , her respect , her admiration , her jealousy , her pain , her longing to make him feel something for her , anything , so long as it came from the heart and not the body … |
| 3 | The life they had come to know so well for so long as it slipped by changelessly would be irrevocably altered : it was like a death or a wounding and brought all the wonder and fear and awe of change . |
| 4 | It was my experience that seldom did the more senior of his element — and there were many of them — fit into the operational set-up , more especially as it got towards the end of the war . |
| 5 | In that time , we were tied to the gold standard , which we found to be inadequate and inflexible , especially as it depended in part on the mining activities in the gold mines of South Africa and the Soviet Union . |
| 6 | She 'd been feeling sick a morning or two , but not so as it interfered with her work , and no one remarked on it . |
| 7 | The jump in share prices was comparable to yesterday 's but the euphoria quickly ebbed away as it dawned on investors that — in terms of the immediate prospects — not much had changed and what had changed was not entirely for the better . |
| 8 | Peter suggested keeping on until half an hour into the rush hour but no longer as it looked like being particularly crowded today . |
| 9 | Dick Evans , chief executive , said BAe had to find ‘ an active partner ’ for its turbo-prop business , just as it had for the jet end , but it was ‘ too soon yet ’ . |
| 10 | Bodily discomfort , added to the anger that still bubbled unpleasantly inside him , had the effect of clarifying his mind , just as it had on the day of the press conference . |
| 11 | In the south of France , and especially the southeast , the legacy of Ancient Rome represented the overwhelming influence on Gothic architecture just as it had on Romanesque here before this . |
| 12 | Tit for Tat itself , indeed , came out top in five out of six runs of Round 3 , just as it had in Rounds 1 and 2 . |
| 13 | Then , just as it seemed in danger of becoming stale and repetitive , it threw up De La Soul . |
| 14 | It began to matter to Philip that Richard was a ‘ natural ’ : just as it mattered to the boy himself . |
| 15 | The American researchers got around the problem by synchronising a pulsed laser and a pulsed gas jet so the pulse of laser light hit the gas just as it emerged from the jet into the vacuum chamber . |
| 16 | Just as it did during the mass exodus in the weeks before the Berlin Wall was built , the state propaganda machine is claiming that the current wave of emigration is due to a campaign organised by West Germany to lure their people away . |
| 17 | It employs 1,000 people now , just as it did in 1981 , but in the intervening years it has had to take on far more duties — most notably the upkeep of its building which was looked after by the government from 1816 to 1988 . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , in a markedly more muted way , softness , where strength was expected , provoked ‘ messing about ’ , just as it did in the cycles of violent retribution described by our other informants . |
| 19 | An ounce of silver costs an affordable 225p , just as it did in 1976 . |
| 20 | Some think that he will go abroad for a few days and the CIA will then engineer his return in a countercoup , just as it did in 1953 . |
| 21 | If the borrower of bank A uses the overdraft to pay people who bank with banks B , C , etc. then the increase in the money supply appears in their deposits just as it did in the single bank case . |
| 22 | Heritage Weekend is being celebrated at National Trust properties all over the province on Saturday and Sunday , including Castle Ward near Strangford where the newly-restored cornmill will be producing flour , just as it did in its heyday , on both days ( 2.30pm-5pm ) . |
| 23 | The second was a reaction to the concept of the EEC as a ‘ rich man 's club ’ , discriminating against its own poor through the CAP and through its VAT rates , just as it discriminated against poorer countries elsewhere in the world . |
| 24 | The rope hung behind , exactly as it did in the picture . |
| 25 | His problem seemed to be that he believed a Government could do exactly as it liked without taking public opinion into account . |
| 26 | Soon as it came to the end of the quarter |
| 27 | Even though it was the only route for Polish-German transit between the towns of Graudenz and Dirschau — a distance of 120 kilometres — the Poles closed the bridge as soon as it came under their control . |
| 28 | The catch was usually gutted as soon as it came on board , and the gulls would go in a flock from boat to boat , cleaning up the discards . |
| 29 | Walesa , who attended this session , said afterwards that in order to prove that the new constitution had not been tailor-made for him he would resign as soon as it came into force . |
| 30 | The Thatcher government as soon as it came into office met considerable opposition in Parliament , from public opinion , from local authorities and from various pressure groups , to ‘ cuts ’ . |