Example sentences of "as [vb past] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Sukarno hoped to employ the same techniques as had broken Dutch resistance in New Guinea . |
2 | There were also fears that the same trends of homelessness among mentally ill people as had become apparent in the USA were being repeated in Britain . |
3 | As had become customary in times of financial uncertainty , Nik Powell took it upon himself to ‘ sort out ’ the accounts , as he had sorted out so much over the years , from feuding gangs in Bold Street to disputative bank managers . |
4 | The year began , as had become customary in recent years , with North Korean protests over the annual joint South Korean-United States " Team Spirit " military exercises . |
5 | The revolution would have come , if it was to come at all , only if the demand for industrial democracy through the agency of Industrial Co-operation , could have prompted such a comprehensive tide of sympathetic opinion as had carried parliamentary reform over the barriers of stubborn opposition . |