Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb past] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It presumably developed as an extramural market place . |
| 2 | But he took the evening paper suggestion more seriously , and it eventually emerged as the London Daily News , which was changed ambitiously at the last minute into Britain 's first twenty-four-hour ‘ rolling newspaper ’ , aimed at pulling both evening and morning sales . |
| 3 | She needed a reminder of this trip even if it only served as a warning . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , with repeated French insinuations that they had neither the means nor the intention of reconquering Vietnam , it obviously came as a shock to the US to discover that this was exactly what France seemed to have in mind . |
| 5 | I think that , I do n't know , it just seemed as if you were looking at me like |
| 6 | Yeah , they 're quite soft anyway it just felt as if they were sort of my toes were sort of jammed up against the end but |
| 7 | It thus came as no surprise when it was announced in 1961 that the Marton route would close at the end of the 1962 season . |
| 8 | It thus seemed as if there was a significant dispute between the Realist and Behaviouralist camps , and for much of the 1950s and 1960s this dispute was carried on in the pages of the professional journals . |
| 9 | It thus featured as an issue in 73 per cent . |
| 10 | Relics have been housed in the neighbouring priory ruins , including a huge stone chest decorated in high relief with scenes from the biblical tale of David and known as St Andrew 's Sarcophagus , although there is no reason to suppose that it ever served as a coffin . |
| 11 | But it still came as a surprise when she angrily pushed away the unfinished lasagne and stared at him directly . |
| 12 | I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock . |
| 13 | Although I 'd rung on the Thursday and they said his kidneys were failing , it still came as a shock when they rang on the Saturday at 9.30 in the morning to say he 'd died . |
| 14 | In her heart , Tallis had known that Scathach would not wait for her , but it still came as a shock to find that he had betrayed his word to her . |
| 15 | This emerges clearly in its tortuous attempt to grapple with what it still regarded as a fundamental difference between ‘ Asian ’ and ‘ West Indian ’ patterns of educational performance . |
| 16 | Erm so it always seemed as if something else was the trigger for friendships . |
| 17 | It always sounded as if one should have known , had been told before and was rather foolish to have forgotten . |
| 18 | It always looked as if old Wicksy would remain a minor TV figure until his series Heartbeat about a country plod came along . |
| 19 | It is not simply that the former communist societies in Eastern Europe were characterized , to a greater or lesser extent , by relative economic backwardness and political authoritarianism , and consequently had little appeal as models for the future development of any advanced industrial society , but that the democratic socialism of social democratic and labour parties in the capitalist world , despite its real achievements in improving the conditions of life of the working class , has come to be more critically judged as tending to promote an excessive centralization of decision making , growth of bureaucracy and regulation of the lives of individuals , and has lost something of the persuasive character it once had as a movement aiming to create a new civilization . |
| 20 | Last time , Congress got just six seats out of 42 in a state it once claimed as its almost exclusive territory . |
| 21 | If other cities are a guide to Milan then it also served as a useful quarry for the inhabitants . |
| 22 | It also served as a prison , and features as such in Walter Scott 's novel The Heart of Midlothian . |
| 23 | It also served as an open ceremonial hall . |
| 24 | It also seemed as if somebody up there had decided to have a laugh at the expense of an arguably premature rave by yours truly . |
| 25 | It also acted as a central store and clearing house for hops , organising the supply to the brewers . |
| 26 | It also acted as the catalyst to form fossil fuels from tiny animals millions of years ago . |
| 27 | It did to some extent aggregate demands and turn them into viable policy issues , and it also acted as a downward channel of communication , explaining and rationalizing government policies in the hope of their greater acceptance by the citizens . |
| 28 | However , it also functioned as a trade union in defiance of the Combination Laws . |
| 29 | We read ‘ Glory in the church ’ ; it 's a phrase that ca n't be found elsewhere in the New Testament ; when the Ephesian Christians heard that phrase when the letter was read out , it probably came as a great surprise . |
| 30 | Although it probably began as a lung , over the course of evolution it has become the swimbladder , an ingenious device with which the fish maintains itself as a hydrostat in permanent equilibrium . |