Example sentences of "as it [verb] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The frame of reference for all this ferment in the official mind remained the idea of the Commonwealth , which during the war received an impetus from the need to show the Americans , in words if not in deeds , that there would be room for a British empire in the brave new post-war world , and also from the genuine idealism stimulated in some British imperialists — as it had been stimulated in the previous war — by a desire to distinguish themselves from the Germans and their imperial ambitions . |
| 2 | Thus Regan , in memoirs not noted for their kindness to the president , says , ‘ [ Reagan 's ] grasp of economic theory as it had been taught in his time ( Eureka College , class of 1932 ) was excellent , and he kept abreast of later theory . |
| 3 | Many of the university members of CASS and its boards were opposed to the principle , especially as it had been adopted before the arts and social studies had any real influence in the CNAA . |
| 4 | As soon as it had been fired from the Simonova the pod would have started to broadcast a signal and , since the crew of the survey ship could not fail to be aware that a pod had been discharged , and that it was occupied , he supposed that his descent had been tracked and that someone at least knew where he was to be found . |
| 5 | The legality of these road-blocks was not tested in court ; the police claimed to be relying both on the Road Traffic Act and on the breach of the peace power as it had been developed during the miners ' strike ( see below ) . |
| 6 | The Czechs were , like the Muscovites before them , primarily linguists , and they did not significantly alter the basic groundwork of Formalist literary theory as it had been developed by the late 1920s . |
| 7 | In her authoritative study , José Harris tells us that where unemployment was concerned , Liberal policy dealt with ‘ only an ice-berg tip ’ of the problem as it had been defined by Booth , Llewellyn Smith , Beveridge , and the Webbs . |
| 8 | Mr Roberts said the company 's performance during the year was sound , particularly as it had been achieved without any significant price increases . |
| 9 | He had to belly-land his aircraft on return to land , as it had been damaged in the starboard engine and undercarriage ! |
| 10 | There were recluses in this age , like St Romuald who resigned the archbishopric of Ravenna almost as soon as it had been thrust upon him by Otto III in order to lead a life of private prayer and asceticism . |
| 11 | The schedule of accommodation which forms the basic document around which the rest of the building note is developed , and which I shall illustrate , was prepared , for this particular group of patients , in precisely the same way as it had been done for some of the other sub-groups within mental illness and mental handicapped for which various supplements have been prepared to which I referred above . |
| 12 | Her cool dismissal stung , as it had been meant to . |
| 13 | This was probably not their first experience of the Electrophone , as it had been installed at Marlborough House in 1896 . |
| 14 | A few developed a liking for the racecourse and as it had been drummed into them to dress correctly for every occasion , somehow they managed to provide themselves with the obligatory long trailing gowns by lending each other clothes and accessories ; they appreciated the elegance of their suave escorts in tail coats and top hats . |
| 15 | A statement issued by Glaxo says : ’ The company has consistently denied it has been negligent in any way in relation to the supply of Myodil , it voluntarily withdrew the product in 1987 , as it had been superceded by new products and technology . ’ |
| 16 | For its part , Bolivia , in return for the Peruvian sea outlet , committed itself to help Peru gain access to the Atlantic through the Bolivian town of Puerto Suárez and on through Brazil , offering Peru the same facilities as it had been offered in Ilo . |
| 17 | As it had been used after employment it could only have been protected by an express term . |
| 18 | Yet all incoming data was rejected as soon as it had been acted upon . |
| 19 | The poor or null stabilizing effect of GpU indicated that , as it had been shown for the E.coli rrnB P 1 promoter ( 8 ) , the appearance of a complex stable to heparin challenge requires the formation of at least the first phosphodiester bond . |
| 20 | The defendants argued that the proviso could not be severed and that as it had been found to be an unreasonable restraint of trade the whole of the clause was void . |
| 21 | In 1914 Boccioni wrote : ‘ We were aware of Cubism as it had been publicized in France in articles and books when we came out with the technical manifesto of Futurist painting ( 11 April 1910 ) and with our first exhibition at the Bernheim Gallery ( 6 February 1912 ) . ’ |
| 22 | Luckily the washing machine coped as adequately with Ruth 's clothes as it had been doing for the past six years . |
| 23 | He argued that Dorset should continue to record unmet need as it had been doing in a pilot project , although the decision is so politically sensitive that it has to be given clearance by the politicians at their June committee meeting . |
| 24 | To find conditions leading to the formation of stable complexes we investigated whether the addition in the incubation mixture of the first two initiating NTPs relieved the heparin sensitivity , as it had been described for other promoters with similar characteristics ( 8 ) . |
| 25 | It was exactly as it had been drawn in the family for generations . |
| 26 | After a few years , the conclusion was reached that the experiment had not worked as it had been expected to , and cuts in educational spending soon brought it to an end . |
| 27 | As it 's been noted in the previous conversation there is er a possibility of obviously dust from the i it 's spoil by the way not coal . |
| 28 | And I think kids should be encouraged to erm think about themselves rather than just tick boxes and I think er , er er a group of sentences down here written by the form teacher , by the subject teacher and the pupil erm , as it 's been done for about , for a few years , a good habit to get the kids into , erm especially as a record of achievement should start from year seven . |
| 29 | Proposed as it 's been suggest by councillor . |
| 30 | Is is possible to find its original military number plate as it 's been reregistered with a civilian number ? |