Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] as it [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | President Nyerere of Tanzania ( as we shall see in greater detail later ) has taken the view that , in a country faced with problems of poverty , ignorance , disease and underdevelopment on a gigantic scale , press freedom should be limited just as it has been in the liberal democracies in wartime . |
| 2 | The heavy furniture of the lobby was still arranged exactly as it had been in 1950 . |
| 3 | By this route , indirect and long drawn out as it had been , the long history of capital punishment for murder came to a conclusion . |
| 4 | It was all neatly laid out as it had been the day before . |
| 5 | Everything had to be maintained just as it had been — for the day when Isabelle returned to Les Hiboux . |