Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb past] be [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first four years of the new school 's existence the buildings were used much as they had been prior to amalgamation , but in 1974 organisation was rationalised to provide departmental areas with teaching rooms and adjacent resource bases . |
| 2 | It was important to Trent that he held to that word ; as it had been important to him never to use the term ‘ Loyalist ’ when speaking of or reporting on the Protestant terrorists in Northern Ireland . |
| 3 | This was n't supposed to happen — but then , nothing today had happened as it had been supposed to . |
| 4 | Steel-Maitland was running Central Office like a business enterprise , not in order to make a political point , but because it was as natural to him as it had been foreign to Percival Hughes . |
| 5 | His arthritis made it impossible for him to walk as he had been used to doing . |
| 6 | Geoffrey 's appointment was appropriate , as he had been assistant to the marshal in the Welsh war of 1282 . |
| 7 | En route , we passed a woodman baking potatoes and chestnuts on the ashes of a fire , as Jean-Claude had done , and a huge swarm of angry , iridescent flies hovering over a dead fox , as he had been accustomed to finding close at hand . |