Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] as it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grotesque in death as it had been , now putrefaction tinged the face a greenish hue . |
| 2 | Above all , Mosley had tried to reassure the country that persecution of race or religion was against the fundamental tenets of Fascism as it had evolved in England . |
| 3 | Pop was no longer a community of youth as it had been in the sixties , nor a means of changing society , but a meaningless marketing exercise which deserved to be exposed for the charade that it was . |
| 4 | The name Venturous was a break from the long line of traditional names for Cutters as it had never previously been used . |
| 5 | The league said it would not send cats to Coundon as it had heard of a case of a kitten being used as live bait for dogs . |
| 6 | Even so , the advance of privatization was a notable shift in public debate , a great reversal of the growth of corporatism as it had rolled on , government after government , since the centralization of the First World War . |
| 7 | It would seem that the region of Powys in north-east Wales remained as much in the front-line of warfare with the northern Angles in the time of Eadwine as it had been when Aethelfrith defeated the men of Powys at Chester . |
| 8 | We planned to use the north-south route through Tamanrasset in Algeria as it had the greatest number of watering points . |