Example sentences of "as it [vb past] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The CEGB disclosed the escalation in nuclear costs as it announced that operating profits are £603 million lower than expected at £355 million . |
| 2 | Stephen 's voice had risen , as it had that morning in the garden , and again Kate thought that he was trying not to cry . |
| 3 | Then , just as it seemed that sleep was a compulsion he could no longer resist , Lucien heard a noise in the room . |
| 4 | Marxism grotesquely underestimated the power of nationalism , as it did that of religion . |
| 5 | The father was on for the whole of the second act of The Hooded Owl , and never had that part of the play passed as slowly as it did that evening . |
| 6 | An old potter regretted that machinery did not transform his trade as early as it did that of cotton . |
| 7 | The first public meeting in Cambridge was warned by the Dean-designate of St Paul 's , the Reverend Professor Inge , that unless controls limited the reproduction of the ‘ urban proletariat ’ , it ‘ may cripple our civilisation as it destroyed that of ancient Rome ’ . |