Example sentences of "as it [verb] in [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( To be more explicit : landowners were to be compensated for lost development value as it existed in 1948 , out of a fund for £300 million reserved for this purpose . ) |
| 2 | As it had in 1945 , 1964 and 1974 , Labour would inherit the mess the Tories had left behind , he said , but , this time , with an historic mission to clean it up for good . |
| 3 | Despite Arnold Palmer 's memorable 1962 — when once again the golden hat-trick eluded him as it had in 1960 , with Open Championship and US Masters success , and only losing the US Open in a playoff with Jack Nicklaus — he had a quiet Open in 1963 . |
| 4 | The Tate gallery gets £1.8 million , which is exactly the same as it got in 1984-85 . |
| 5 | Perhaps the point can be best brought out by considering first authority as it functions in one , not untypical , context . |
| 6 | These achievements were the more remarkable because from 1937 to 1957 Turner was also director of the School of Oriental and African Studies ( as it became in 1938 ) with heavy administrative responsibilities . |
| 7 | At the same time , CB , as it became in 1959 , has seen the source of its earnings diversify as consumer finance became more and more important to the group . |
| 8 | This , in the context of pub development as it stands in 1991 , in turn suggests an irreconcilable conflict between historic pubs and the brewers ' profit motive . |
| 9 | If the housing market in southern England remains as tight as it stands in 1988 , then the problems created by recent trends in social polarization are unlikely to diminish at any of the three scales treated in this chapter . |
| 10 | The central government paid $20 billion in interest payments and amortisation in 1989 , twice as much as it paid in 1988 . |
| 11 | Labour is not presenting itself for slaughter , as it did in 1983 and to a lesser extent in 1987 . |
| 12 | The growth rate in 1990 was expected to continue to decline as it did in 1989 , partly because of a predicted economic slowdown in the USA which was the destination of 30 per cent of Singapore 's exports . |
| 13 | For all the turbulence and excitement that erupted with the Gang of Four 's break with Labour in 1981 , Britain looked as much a two-party system at the end of the decade as it did in 1980 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The reasons why the Eisenhower administration acted as it did in 1956 remain potent , especially when examined without the advantages of hindsight . |
| 16 | Although political ideology can play a significant part in re-shaping the penal system , as it did in 1964 through the influence of Crime — a challenge to us all , and to a lesser extent as it would have done had the Conservatives regained office in 1966 , incoming governments customarily do not pack in their baggage detailed blue prints on criminal policy . |
| 17 | But in 1989 , 1990 and 1991 the Extended HGSC Index underperformed , as it did in 1992 up to the date when this issue went to press . |
| 18 | An ounce of silver costs an affordable 225p , just as it did in 1976 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Nearly all the world 's quinine came from Java , and , if Java fell into enemy hands ( as it did in 1942 ) , supplies would virtually cease . |
| 21 | But whether his artistic life was , as a few think , exemplary , or , as rather more think , a fearsomely cautionary fable , it is at all events a matter of some solemnity , and the amused weariness of we-have-heard-it-all-before will not serve in 1985 as it did in 1920 or 1940 or even , scandalously , as late as fifteen years ago . |
| 22 | The fact that the Collection will remain open this winter ( as it did in 1991–92 ) , and that the permanent collection , including paintings by Pegeen ( the founder 's daughter ) and glass sculptures by Egidio Costantini will be on display , would seem to counter recent criticisms of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation made by Peggy Guggenheim 's grandsons . |
| 23 | Three cases , two from that other period of great division , the 1930s , set the tone for the law as it stood in 1979 . |
| 24 | The spread of readily available and simple means of contraception has meant that the wife is less likely to spend much of her life in the bearing and rearing of children and is more likely to seek employment outside the home , thereby developing a source of income and interests outside her traditionally defined role : ‘ … in Britain the proportion of all wives in paid work went up from 10 per cent in 1911 ( as it remained in 1931 ) to 26 per cent in 1951 and 42 per cent in 1971 ’ ( Young and Willmott , 1975 , p. 101 ) . |
| 25 | The increasing number of states , and the rising legitimacy of states resulting from the increasing democratization of governments ( as it appeared in 1968 ) were important reasons for this development , but the major reason was the new impossibility of actually using force in international relations . |