Example sentences of "as [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tait , with William Thomson , had published a Treatise on Natural Philosophy in 1867 which became a standard advanced textbook because it treated physics from the point of view of conservation of energy — fathering the doctrine , as became two Cambridge men , upon Newton : the ‘ return to Newton ’ was for them the key to modernity . |
| 2 | They , as became self-conscious representatives of the Cohen tradition — austere , genteel , ‘ polished ’ — were not taken to the spontaneous expressions of liveliness which Masha 's Judaism exhibited . |
| 3 | " Adrian , " she said in a level voice that surprised her , " if you so much as lay one finger on me , I swear I 'll tear you to pieces . |
| 4 | Norris ended with two goals , as did fellow striker Dave Lancaster . |
| 5 | The party divisions between leading reformers such as Lloyd George , Mosley and Macmillan also hindered co-operation , as did personal hostility within political parties ( on all occasions between Mosley and Ernest Bevin in the Labour movement and intermittently between Lloyd George and Keynes in the Liberals ) . |
| 6 | Both Kepler Wessels and Adrian Kuiper , the respective captains , scored centuries as did Western Province opener Terence Lazard while World Cup squad batsman Mark Rushmere was also in the runs . |
| 7 | These sometimes interrupted the schedules , as did extensive reportage of elections , of local Assemblies . |
| 8 | More optimistically , facilities management company Northern Computing Services , acquired in May , returned to profit as did Integrated Engineering Products Ltd , which is seeing in 1993 with healthy order books . |
| 9 | In family B , all members had unique strains of H pylori as did one member of family M and the two unrelated individuals . |
| 10 | Another trick is for the dealer to buy his stock through a friend , particularly when he has special knowledge that the price will go up , as did one dealer on Helical Bar a well known property company in the UK whose share price then sky-rocketed from its post crash low . |
| 11 | This hit carpets and furniture retailing particularly hard , as did new furniture fire regulations brought in by the European Commission piecemeal . |
| 12 | Before 1967 Israel assumed , as did many others , that since the Palestinian Arabs had not achieved nationhood they would soon assimilate into the Arab host countries neighbouring Israel , if the latter had half a mind to allow it to happen . |
| 13 | Japanese mainframe makers pursued this ‘ IBM-compatible ’ strategy , as did many entrants to the micro-business , from Silicon Valley to South Korea , by producing ‘ IBM clones ’ . |
| 14 | Rather than regarding the relationship as essentially adversarial , as did many observers twenty years ago , the issue is now one of searching for ways to allow the two parties to co-operate to promote their mutual interests . |
| 15 | The third party then exercised those rights , as did other minority shareholders owning 40% of the remaining 45% of the company 's share capital ; therefore 95% of the rights issue was taken up . |
| 16 | While the latter left no verse epistles , Sidonius did , as did other writers whose works are preserved in the Epistulae Austrasiacae . |
| 17 | What Dilys Powell missed when she described The Wicked Lady as a concatenation of ‘ the hoary , the tedious , the disagreeable , ’ as did other critics who saw Gainsborough 's films as a reassertion of an old escapist tendency in British cinema , was how much of an advance such films offered on everything of a similar sort that had gone before , and how they touched the sentiments of audiences who could no longer respond to stories of gallant endeavour quite as they could when it seemed that defeat was an imminent possibility . |
| 18 | He later attempted such elucidation , as did other philosophers , notably his one-time pupil Edmund Husserl . |
| 19 | Marko served with the sultan 's army , as did other Serbs who accepted the status of tributary princes , including Prince Lazar 's son , Stephen Lazarević . |
| 20 | Many Christians continued to take part in traditional Roman festivities ; they sometimes shocked their bishops by dancing in church , getting drunk at celebrations in the cemeteries , consulting magicians , or resorting to charms to cure their troubles , just as did other people . |
| 21 | Nanno received a pension , as did all policemen who joined when under thirty years of age and who served for twenty or more years . |
| 22 | On Sept. 18 alone , 700,000 people marched through Sao Paulo demanding Collor 's resignation , as did 300,000 demonstrators in the north-eastern city of Recife on Sept. 23 . |
| 23 | Anglo-Saxon archaeology has n't come to a crisis point as did prehistoric studies in the early 1960s ; rather it is gradually slipping into new directions with the establishment of a generation of archaeologists more aware that alternative approaches exist to be tried and which have been available for 20 years . |
| 24 | Former Justice Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Agamemnon Koutsogiorgas faced related charges , as did former Finance Minister Dimitris Tsovolas and former Public Order Minister Giorgos Petsos . |
| 25 | Among these a need for cross-curricular study featured prominently , as did various areas where curricular provision had yet to be developed ( e.g. the tutorial programme , a life-skills ' curriculum , curriculum provision for the able child ) . |
| 26 | Abscisic acid , another plant hormone , caused underwater shoots to grow aerial leaves , as did higher temperatures and when mannitol was added to the water . |
| 27 | Jospin himself , hitherto a Minister of State , left the cabinet , as did five Ministers ( four PS members and Brice Lalonde who had been the sole representative of Génération Ecologie ) . |
| 28 | Serious political divisions within the Congress , whose proceedings were brought to a standstill in October over the impeachment of the Minister of Public Works and Communications and the subsequent dismissal of the Congress president [ see pp. 37771-72 ] , threatened prolonged instability as did continued labour protests against anti-inflationary measures , culminating in a 24-hour general strike on Feb. 6 , 1991 [ see p. 38001 ] . |
| 29 | If he had won , he would certainly not have snubbed the Oscar-night celebrations as did that year 's recipient of the Best Actor Award , George C. Scott , for Patton . |
| 30 | By Faraday 's time , the problem was more acute ; electrically charged objects were known to repel or attract each other , as did magnetic poles . |