Example sentences of "[verb] as it [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.

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1 This picture of a universe that started off very hot and cooled as it expanded is in agreement with all the observational evidence that we have today .
2 But Spain would never again be as politically and economically isolated as it had been between 1945 and 1950 .
3 The luncheon table was laid as it had been for 50 Christmases , with a pyramid of polished John Standish apples from Somerset in the middle , flanked by Christmas roses and trails of ivy .
4 Unionists of the time would scarcely have recognized the terms of the debate , for in 1922 the party was still embroiled with Ireland and the House of Lords , held a smaller share of the popular vote than ever before , and was still split as it had been since 1902 ; few Unionists would have seen the war as a turning-point for the better in the party fortunes .
5 In Stenhouse Australia Ltd v Phillips [ 1974 ] AC 391 the restraint of trade clause was part of an agreement made between the parties after employment had ceased as it had been in Wyatt 's case .
6 Opinion in both these movements , however , was as strongly divided as it had been among the trade union movement and the Independent Labour Party twenty years before .
7 The Labour Party … remained as it had been before 1914 — propagandist and evangelical .
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