Example sentences of "as it [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sun glinted on the silver scales as it struggled in vain . |
| 2 | It is important here , though , not to take the notion of " education " in any narrow sense , since the mission of national education as it operated between 1880 and 1920 encompassed institutions , events , and locations well beyond the scope of education as it has since come to be formally conceived . |
| 3 | In the first edition of the Fact File , we gave a detailed description of the system as it operated before these changes . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Genuine republican feeling , in so far as it existed at all in the major States , was a nostalgia or very occasionally an aspiration , never a programme . |
| 6 | ( 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 . ) |
| 7 | They may range from a brief mention of a thirteenth-century tithe barn near the manor house , to a fully detailed true-to-scale plan of a building as it existed in earlier times , but which is now changed . |
| 8 | Now to consider the establishment of the Democratic People 's Republic of Korea ( DPRK ) and the character of the state as it developed between 1948 and 1950 . |
| 9 | The main sources for the movement as it developed between 1880 and the early 1900s , were University Settlement Houses , Public School Missions , the ‘ Independents ’ , and the motley collection of local parish clubs and others , many of which were affiliated to larger parent organizations , such as the Girls ' Friendly Society , BB , YMCA , the Wesley Guild of Youth , and the Army Cadets . |
| 10 | For example , if money supply were £10 billion , and money as it passed from one person to another was spent on average eight times a year on national output , then total spending ( MV ) would be £80 billion a year . |
| 11 | ‘ Not as bad as it looked on first assessment . |
| 12 | And so whilst the popular perception of Harrogate will remain of it as being a very prosperous and pretty borough er with everything going for it , in fact there 's a very serious unemployment problem of structural er magnitude and we felt that the county structure plan had not acknowledged this erm special difficulty that Harrogate was facing , and had merely applied as we heard this morning the standard formula as it were to Harrogate , as it had to all the other local authority areas in the county . |
| 13 | The Galactic War continued , as it had for many generations . |
| 14 | The committee overwhelmingly voted that the platform should once again contain , as it had since 1980 , the demand for a constitutional amendment to prohibit abortion . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The wound was not as serious as it had at first seemed , but the bone was broken . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He led others to assume that soon world-dazzling poetry would catapult from his head as it had from those of other English boys : Lennon , Jagger , Bowie . |
| 20 | The Tate gallery gets £1.8 million , which is exactly the same as it got in 1984-85 . |
| 21 | Its sluggish habit was not a hindrance , though , for it could kill with a mere glance or whiff of its breath , as it fed on poisonous herbs whose odour was fatal to man . |
| 22 | We have , however , been gathering information on task/standing groups as it arose at various Senior Management meetings . |
| 23 | On the other hand , if the income as it arose in each of the five years was paid out to Mr X that would have no tax consequences : he could not be assessed under TA 1988 , s739 as he is not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom . |
| 24 | And everybody was getting a bit bored with it cos as it dragged on this is s seven months when you know a long time to be I never thought it would have gone this as long as that when we started off with it . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Such an interpretation is not inconsistent with Katib Celebi 's brief account , particularly if it is remembered that by his time the Seyhulislam had long since been the Mufti of Istanbul and that he may therefore have concerned himself with trying to sketch the history of the office only in so far as it related to that city . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The central government paid $20 billion in interest payments and amortisation in 1989 , twice as much as it paid in 1988 . |
| 30 | The car protested as it settled into muddy pools , heaved itself out , scraped through fields of boulders and crossed innumerable rickety bamboo bridges . |