Example sentences of "as they had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The further the office , the party and the seats of government were removed from the home and family influence , the less able were women to exercise influence upon the male public world as they had formerly done . |
| 2 | However , just as they had formerly worked to obtain their fortune , so also the nouveaux riches were obliged to employ material goods to assert their social pretensions . |
| 3 | They no longer felt , as they had previously , that there was unlimited time or that things would unfold and develop along the lines that they had unconsciously assumed they would . |
| 4 | IBM and Microsoft developed OS/2 together , as they had previously done with DOS , but sales did not go well — the latest claim from IBM is one million copies sold . |
| 5 | After several such pairings , the dogs learned to salivate to the music just as they had previously salivated to the food . |
| 6 | After losing seven goals in two games , Thistle were as resolutely organised as they had previously been chaotically lax . |
| 7 | We all squeezed into the church hall the following afternoon for a final showdown with Swire Sugden , the lads from the nail factory in a belligerent mood as they had just downed tools in protest against their foreman using bad language . |
| 8 | She longed to say it to his face , but somehow she could n't quite bring herself to do so , especially as they had just agreed to try to bring about a better working relationship . |
| 9 | Banks , factories , joint stock companies began slowly to replace the traditional economic machinery of Asia and Africa , as they had already replaced that of pre-industrial Europe . |
| 10 | remain in Japan even after the Peace Treaty , since the Japanese police were too few and their armament inadequate to maintain public order should the Communists attempt an offensive in Asia as they had already done in Europe . |
| 11 | No , not even when his fingers touched her , as they had already , several times , just prior to the kiss . |
| 12 | Overcrowding , insanitary conditions and inadequate services ( particularly medical , educational and cultural ) , together with the accompanying problems of health risks and rising crime rates , began to make their appearance in Spanish cities in the 1950s , just as they had already appeared in large connurbations elsewhere in the world . |
| 13 | The " ceremonious stomachs " of Russian ambassadors " whose Nation stands so much on Ceremony " were the subject of comment in England in the early years of the century , as they had already been in the reign of Elizabeth . |
| 14 | However , as they had mostly lost significant amounts of weight already and it had n't occurred to me to ask them to measure their weekly progress in terms of inches , the results , whilst remarkable , were only visual . |
| 15 | The hippos , she thought , with a sure hunter 's instinct , the hippos always mate at the full moon , to whelp during the monsoon , as they had since Tertiary times . |
| 16 | Supper was as lavish as they had yet had in Scotland : ‘ A large dish of minced beef collops , a large dish of fricassee of fowl , I believe a dish called fried chicken or something like it , a dish of ham or tongue , some excellent haddocks , some herrings , a large bowl of rich milk , frothed , as good a bread-pudding as I ever tasted , full of raisin and lemon or orange peel , and sillabubs made with port wine and in sillabub glasses . |
| 17 | He collected her as soon as they had both tidied their offices , McLeish maliciously enjoying Davidson 's obvious chagrin as they said good-night to him on the way out . |
| 18 | Further , many could not afford to undertake such pomp as they had neither the capital , credit facilities , stock , staff nor expertise ; some simply did not have the inclination to become involved . |
| 19 | Whatever the law might hold , no one could argue that the methods used by Esmail and Everington amounted to fraud , in so far as they had neither the intention nor the potential to gain an advantage . |
| 20 | As they had all gone in , having regard to the number of answers in the form of ‘ nothing to say , ’ it was vital that a proper direction be given . |
| 21 | However , the government claimed that no militias remained in Kabul , as they had all been absorbed into the regime 's regular army . |
| 22 | As soon as they had all landed , Woolley rang his handbell . |
| 23 | He asked them to adopt a more professional approach , to harden their attitude and not capitulate when things became tough , as they had sometimes been prone to . |
| 24 | But the position did become clearer in various respects ; and the problems and disputes which arose were seldom so acute or threatening as they had sometimes been in the past . |
| 25 | Reminders of humiliation once again became priceless possessions , as emotionally valuable as they had once been legally essential . |
| 26 | Times were changing , and he began to realize that things would never go back as they had once been . |
| 27 | As the tide rose , the wind shredded the clouds above them and pushed a mighty swell across the water , so that they began to roll as they had once rolled at sea . |
| 28 | I detest José Mario Armero , the leading ‘ Guernica ’ campaigner , who admits that the installation in the Casón ‘ was seen as a trick , as they had originally meant to use one of the rooms in the main building ’ . |
| 29 | Fortunately I had a tide-table with me which played havoc with the original extravagant plans as they had only three days to shoot the 15 minutes of film they needed . |
| 30 | It was dark inside , as they had only one candle . |