Example sentences of "as it [vb past] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remainder of this chapter will investigate this type of system as it operated in the international economy from the Second World War until 1973 . |
| 2 | Pascoe watched a globe as it glowed in the darkness , then rose and fell in a sizzling arc . |
| 3 | As it landed in the water the Jet Ranger immediately rolled to port . |
| 4 | There was a plop as it landed in the water , then it thrashed around wildly for a few seconds before settling down . |
| 5 | She promised that the devils would be cast out of Timothy Gedge , as it said in the Bible . |
| 6 | When the flame was burning blue and steady ( as it said in the book of instructions ) he left the room gladly , shutting the door firmly behind him . |
| 7 | The theory of heredity as it existed in the 1940s , then , was one of genes linearly arranged along chromosomes , influencing the characteristics of the organisms in which they found themselves , and being transmitted via egg and sperm to the next generation . |
| 8 | The dominant critique of local government as it existed in the 1960s was relatively straightforward . |
| 9 | Daunton asks the searching question : ‘ did the private market as it existed in the decades before the First World War fall , or was it pushed ? ’ |
| 10 | The ideology of Enlightened Despotism , however , as it existed in the three or four decades before the French Revolution , was not the expression merely of intellectual forces . |
| 11 | The deep ambiguities of the Prussian State as it existed in the nineteenth century , intellectually a part of Western Europe yet with a social and military structure much of which continually tended to align it with Russia , trace largely from Frederick 's reign . |
| 12 | First , are we to regard the welfare state , which fits uneasily , if at all , into a Marxist scheme , as a new type of state , which differs in fundamental respects from the state as it existed in the laissez-faire capitalist societies of the nineteenth century ? |
| 13 | He regarded this system as inimical to the rule of law for a number of reasons : first , because it undermined the principles of equality and universality of law ; secondly , because it placed the State in a privileged position and would therefore threaten the historic achievement of bringing the Crown under law ; and , thirdly , insofar as it resulted in the establishment of special courts , it infringed the principle of the separation of judicial and ministerial powers . |
| 14 | But this was only one of a variety of vessels , some of them much larger , it seems , used by the Vikings , and it is the accident that they still used them for burials which has enabled a small number to survive — the conversion to Christianity may be said to have deprived us for ever of the best evidence we might have had of medieval navigation as it developed in the eleventh and twelfth centuries . |
| 15 | The poet 's paternal grandmother , Rachel Phillips , was a native of Abertillery ( or Blaenau Gwent ) where a native Welsh tradition had survived , as it had in the Tredegar of her youth . |
| 16 | His hairline at that age was receding at the parting , giving every intimation that he might be bald one day ; not so , in the event — photographs of him as an older man show clearly that same hairline , looking very much the same as it had in the days of his youth . |
| 17 | All animosity towards her husband dissolved and a spark of affection for him seemed to light up inside her , as it had in the old days . |
| 18 | As they parted , she pursed her lips and lifted her well-attended face , which did n't look quite so young as it had in the restaurant . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ( This belligerent insistence on Washington 's right to behave as it chose in the interests of US ‘ security ’ must have aggravated Cuban fears . ) |
| 23 | At the start of the final segment of the hectic 1991–92 season — the one month of truly global box-office appeal — some early impressions emerge of the new International Cricket Council code of conduct as it prevailed in the Tests and one-day series in New Zealand , Australia and Pakistan . |
| 24 | Sometimes the wind made a low , musical hum as it vibrated in the wires … . |
| 25 | The strongest smell on the roof , though , was of the coke that sang as it burned in the brazier . |
| 26 | At some point or other , though Jack has never discussed the possibility in public , he appears to have suspected that all might not be as it seemed in the Nicholson household . |
| 27 | Captain Henrick Kurt Carlsen waves from the Flying Enterprise , which he refused to leave for seven days in 1951 as it foundered in the Channel after a storm . |
| 28 | Captain Henrick Kurt Carlsen waves from the Flying Enterprise , which he refused to leave for seven days in 1951 as it foundered in the Channel after a storm . |
| 29 | And you used to er stand this on a house brick , like it might be on there , and you had another long stick and you use to hit it on one end and as it flew in the air you see it used to fly up then you used to have to hit it as far as you |
| 30 | On the other hand , neither did the faithful military figure so much here as it did in the political activities of the Smolensk party organization . |