Example sentences of "as it [vb past] in [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Bass , which owns the Holiday Inns hotels group and sells one in every five pints of beer downed by the public , has slashed the book value of its property assets by a staggering £496m , almost as much as it made in profit .
2 He concludes that ‘ it is not too strong to say that the marriage law as it operated in practice in England from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries was a mess ’ ( p. 135 ) .
3 The story of Fleming 's discovery was a superb one and gained delightful embellishments as it dwindled in truthfulness .
4 Would not it be a disaster if Russia ended up having to pay as much in interest rates as it received in aid ?
5 The Origin shows that the position of women and the family , as it existed in Engels 's time , not an unchallengeable datum , based on eternal principles , but the temporary product of the period , a product which will and must be overthrown .
6 Socialism , as it developed in Britain , had little distinctive contribution to make to the formulation of foreign policy .
7 I remember the screech of the horn and the blur of the car as it passed in front of me .
8 What would happen if something went wrong there , as it had in America , people began to ask .
9 T his new economic process , assisted by an increasing effective demand , was to have the same impact on feudal manufacturing structures as it had in agriculture — it destroyed the old order of things .
10 It had been bloodied and battered by the impact of the car but , curiously , its handlebar moustache looked as trim and correct in death as it had in life .
11 Iraq had made a formal request ( as it had in July — see p. 39026 ) for the easing of the embargo which , it claimed , had caused numerous civilian deaths owing to the lack of essential food and medical supplies .
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 But Yugoslavia maintained restrictions which prevent the Soviet navy from coming ashore in Yugoslavia as it had in Egypt .
14 She shot upright , clutching her head as it throbbed in protest at her sudden move .
15 My own dead-straight mousy fringe and dimpled chin framed my face as it distorted in agony .
16 Then , just as it seemed in danger of becoming stale and repetitive , it threw up De La Soul .
17 Then there was just their sounds , mingled with the swish of the coarse grass as it moved in unison with the dark water .
18 The building looked as impressive in actuality as it did in magazines , though the Hudson somewhat less so than the river I 'd just left .
19 They were fighting for justice for the workers , a fine cause but one that had already proved useless in Russia , where the same old bureaucratic hierarchy held sway as it did in Spain .
20 Seurat 's Dimanche après-midi à l'île de La Grande Jatte moved towards the abstract and uniform in form as it did in content , thereby making class distinctions between the figures on a Sunday outing that he drew difficult to see .
21 Not only can the Commission assist complainants by bringing proceedings on their behalf , but it can also conduct a formal investigation , as it did in West Glamorgan .
22 If that happens — as it did in Poland after 1976 , paving the way for Solidarity 's triumph in 1980 — then the regime 's days will seem numbered .
23 But when consensus breaks down , as it did in Britain and the United States in the late 1970s , think-tanks become more avowedly ideological .
24 Even more surprisingly , this little black and white indictment of the National Health Service did almost as well in the United States as it did in Britain .
25 Saudi Arabia has stockpiled close to 30m barrels of the stuff during the first quarter of 1989 ; Iran has been busy filling European storage tanks ; Saudi , Kuwaiti and Iraqi oil has been pouring into America almost as fast as it did in December .
26 Adultery features in this novel , as it did in Stand We At Last and Here Today , another of her novels .
27 That means that the British Government could , as it did in September 1988 , simply decree that the courts can take a negative view of any defendant who chooses not to co-operate with the police , or take the stand in his or her own defence , as in the changes in the right to silence rules .
28 It 's a great feeling when you try something and it works out as it did in Cardiff back in 1982 when we beat Wales 34–18 and ended their 14-year record of home invincibility .
29 Time stopped here , as it did in space .
30 It revealed something she would never have associated with the man whose ironic half-smile appeared in tabloid gossip columns almost as often as it did in yachting magazines .
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