Example sentences of "be [verb] as it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their hay would be fed as it had been cut , handful by handful , and should be enough with seaweed and oat straw to feed her till she was helped out in the spring . |
| 2 | However , as members of the Cambridge Board Committee , both the District Chairman and Secretary were fully apprised of the details of the new arrangements and , presumably , acquiesced in the explicit transfer of providing powers under Chapter III for One-Year and Terminal courses in rural areas so that the complete scheme in Bedfordshire could be maintained as it had developed from 1927 . |
| 3 | Though her heart was thumping as it had then , no one but herself would ever know it . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Since the direction of the direct and the indirect effect is the same ( which need not always be so ) , the size of the effect of job type on absenteeism would not be as large once sex was controlled as it had seemed in the bivariate relationship . |