Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb past] it [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Citrine and Self hoped that the rise was temporary and would be reversed ( wedded , as always , to a philosophy of cheap capital and low prices , and the world as they hoped it would be again ) , but high interest rates continued to reflect the buoyant competing demands for capital and mild inflationary tendencies in the UK economy . |
| 32 | Penge U.D.C. were quite happy with the proposed double track throughout , as they thought it would help if there was ever a prospect of through running with the London County Council . |
| 33 | If things were as they seemed it would n't matter . |
| 34 | As it said it would eventually , Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has begun manufacturing the IBM Corp RS/6000 systems it resells as its DPX/20 line at its plant in Angers . |
| 35 | Mr Prescott said : ‘ If private capital can not produce the goods as it said it could , they should be given a short period of time to clear the mess up , or we will take it over . |
| 36 | Sun Microsystems Inc is claiming it 's booking orders and delivering production units of Viking-based Sparcstation 10s in volume as it promised it would . |
| 37 | I do n't have any view erm er on that , if I understand your question , because I think it realistic to assume that post two thousand and six one of the options that we could be reasonably expected to consider , together with the District Council , is the possibility of a further , shall we say , how addition to , a a further phase er onto the new settlement , erm so that the new settlement erm would evolve , if that was the chosen option , and as it evolved it may well be that more of Mr David Curtis 's higher level facilities er would be added . |
| 38 | He was slim and attractive , certainly , but his body was not quite as tense and muscular as he felt it ought to be . |
| 39 | He never hit a bad shot off the tee ; it just did n't come back as far as he thought it would . |
| 40 | If Cullam had noticed anything as he walked it would have been the rubbish , the flotsam that the river sucked in and gathered on Its journey through the meadows . |
| 41 | As he realised it would , it had the impact of blatancy . |
| 42 | It 'll be a long time before the word ‘ mother ’ becomes as dirty a word as he suggested it would . |