Example sentences of "[noun sg] as [pers pn] [vb past] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to one report , Vincent was as dismissive of academic study as he had been in Amsterdam . |
| 2 | Accordingly , he attempted to shift Marxism away from orthodox theories of an absolute determinism towards the primacy of a concept of ‘ History ’ which , while still a totality as it had been for Lukács , a process with a determinate meaning and end , could also include a concept of human agency and thus articulate the individual with the social , freedom with determinism . |
| 3 | Ipswich were as lethargic at the start of the second half as they had been for the majority of the first and on the hour , in an attempt to liven them up , Lyall brought off Milton and Goddard to introduce Palmer and Johnson . |
| 4 | This shows that Anselm was quite as ready to face exile for the primacy as he had been for obedience to the pope . |
| 5 | However , his appearance had been that of an eighteen-year-old , which makes nonsense for a second time of the press claims that Lord Haw-Haw was as puny in appearance as he had been in his human sympathies . |
| 6 | This , of course , delighted the child and every night she stood in the wings performing everybody 's act with them , and even at the end of two shows , she was as bright in the dressing room as she 'd been at the overture . |
| 7 | But in addition , when they reached Lyons , the king 's messenger told Anselm that the king would not allow him to return to England unless he promised to observe the customs of the kingdom as they had been in the time of Rufus . |
| 8 | He thought of Beryl and the need to come to grips with the Garland set-up as it had been before the old man 's death . |
| 9 | This change also made imperative the development of links with employers , Youth Training providers and the tertiary colleges so that the quality of transition for young people was as effective into the post-16 area as it had been throughout their school career . |
| 10 | Tom Poole , who had nursed his father devotedly at the end , was in low spirits , but was as instantly captivated by his visitor as he had been at their first meeting . |
| 11 | Bales had been arranged for the jury as they had been on the night of the fire . |
| 12 | With his evangelical approach , he thrived in the conditions of greater religious freedom introduced in 1988 , but his radical views on the church 's contemporary relevance placed him at odds with a traditionalist wing which sought to revive the Russian Orthodox Church as it had been before the Bolshevik revolution . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Truman indicated late in 1945 that the United States would not be a passive bystander in the Middle and Near East as it had been after the First World War . |
| 15 | And a nasty place it was : jammed with junk Victorian furnishings and attitudes , squirearchical , male , fascistic ( Waugh was as keen on the Croatian Ustashe as he had been on Franco ) , anti-Jewish , bitter against the ‘ common man ’ , devoted to cranky equations between social hierarchy and linguistic purity . |
| 16 | This was particularly embarrassing for Bolger as he had been in the forefront of those who had castigated former Labour Prime Minister David Lange for bowing to French economic pressure by releasing Alain Mafart and Dominique Prieur , the two saboteurs who were tried and sentenced for the crime . |
| 17 | There had always been that choice , and it was as difficult to take , and as easy to reject , in the twentieth century as it had been in any other . |
| 18 | She was fighting and then beaten , the pain and the blackness as vivid in her nightmare as it had been in reality . |
| 19 | Modules were built in the early 1980s in much the same way as they had been in the late 1960s , with little technical or organizational change . |
| 20 | When Mary Queen of Scots went to Edinburgh she bewailed going out among savages , and she herself went from a sixteenthcentury court that held but a barbarous , or rather a drivelling and idiotic and superficial travesty of the Italian culture as it had been before the debacle of 1527 . |
| 21 | When , a year later , with paintings such as Man with Violin , Braque 's Cubism reached a second climax of complexity and became also highly difficult to read or interpret , one senses that it was not owing to the excitement of working with a new , more abstract technique as it had been with Picasso , but because his interest in elaborately breaking up the picture surface so as to analyse the relationships between the objects and the space surrounding them , slowly and inevitably led him to this kind of painting . |
| 22 | Wilson , his enemies suggested , had been as reckless with money as he had been in organising strikes which brought no advantage to his members . |
| 23 | But , I think it would be illusory to think that we can maintain our profits from land in ninety three at the same level as it had been for ninety one and two . |
| 24 | Suddenly Anne thought of the kitchen as it had been throughout her childhood , a warm , secure and loving haven . |
| 25 | The old imperial line of communication through the Mediterranean , Suez Canal , Red Sea and Indian Ocean to the Far East and the Antipodes would be just as important to the Commonwealth as it had been to the colonial Empire . |
| 26 | Another facet : a ribbed hall of towering , icon-stencilled machine tools , littered with corpses , many of them as grotesque in death as they had been in life … |
| 27 | Burn 's nephew , MacVicar Anderson , ensured that Burn was as secretive about his methods of house planning in death as he had been in life . |
| 28 | Paul climbed the stairs in trepidation ; had he made some mistake in the corrections , blind with pain as he had been for part of the day ? |
| 29 | In spite of everything , her mind kept returning to Antoinette — seeing her face as it had been during their last confrontation in Monpazier , twisted with bitterness and hate . |
| 30 | Archbishop Aethelberht is said not to have spared evil kings , and there must be a possibility that he was soon as disenchanted with Aethelred 's faction as he had been with Alhred 's . |