Example sentences of "as it have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This comforted him as it had comforted him half a dozen times this afternoon , but his mind remained basically uneasy . |
| 2 | The idea of heroic sacrifice had contaminated her , as it had contaminated my father . |
| 3 | Labour lost the 1935 election because of its confusion over foreign policy , just as it had lost in 1931 because of its domestic failure . |
| 4 | The ‘ Legitimist ’ nobility , that is those who remained loyal to the elder Bourbon branch which had been deposed by the Revolution of 1830 , kept itself aloof from the court of the ‘ parvenu ’ , just as it had shunned that of Louis-Philippe . |
| 5 | Then , after a couple more weeks , that strange phenomenon appeared , just as it had appeared after his first two weeks of basic training with the Royal Army Service Corp . |
| 6 | Then , just as suddenly as it had appeared , it dived , sliding back into the earth at an immense speed . |
| 7 | As it became clear that the Bolsheviks were prepared to make peace on terms which fully restored Polish territorial integrity , the wave of anti-war feeling subsided as quickly as it had appeared . |
| 8 | So long as it had appeared to be an alternative force to the Labour party , he kept clear . |
| 9 | The expression of good-humoured contempt had vanished as quickly as it had appeared , and suddenly Rostov realised that he had missed an opportunity to relax the tension which existed between them . |
| 10 | It showed that gravitational collapse was not as much of a dead end as it had appeared to be . |
| 11 | Robbie 's colour fled as rapidly as it had appeared , leaving her face ashen with anger . |
| 12 | But Jay 's spine became electric as Pergolese 's Stabat Mater came through the speakers sure as it had filled the dusk of her dream . |
| 13 | ICI , in sixth place last time , has fallen to 12th : still heavily dependent on commodity chemicals , ICI 's restructuring has not made it as immune to the industry 's boom-bust cycles as it had hoped . |
| 14 | One section of loyalists correctly forecast that the proposed constitutional convention was an exercise to buy time and that the Westminster government would ignore its recommendations as cynically as it had ignored earlier constitutionally expressed wishes of the loyalist majority . |
| 15 | A senior US trade official said the decision to ditch the two-day talks made it more likely that the United States would go ahead with sanctions as it had threatened . |
| 16 | In many ways I was greatly relieved as it had become obvious to me that he was n't well . |
| 17 | The family home , dilapidated as it had become , was the last tangible talisman of their pride and , rather than relinquish it , the Chamfers leased the building and what remained of its land to an educational trust formed by an academically inclined cousin , retaining shooting rights , fishing rights and the right to have their female descendants educated gratis . |
| 18 | The jousting could not be started and the close combat was soon abandoned as it had become farcical , contestants falling down when they tried to wield their weapons . |
| 19 | The Department of Trade and Industry ( as it had become ) was responsible for giving exemption from the Moneylenders Acts , could intervene if HP companies were misbehaving , and operated the terms controls decided on by the Treasury . |
| 20 | Alexei remembered how Tulagai and Targoutai had fawned on Siban before Nogai had been elected Kha-Khan , and how they had voiced their support for Nogai , their own half-brother , as soon as it had become apparent that he had Burun 's vote . |
| 21 | As abruptly as it had become paralysed , her tongue was loosened . |
| 22 | Havel 's first journey abroad as President , to East and West Germany on Jan. 2 , represented a further break with tradition , as it had become customary for leaders of Soviet bloc countries to make their first foreign visit to Moscow . |
| 23 | Recent opinion polls had shown a dramatic decline in public support for the union , as it had become identified with government policy . |
| 24 | Patients who joined the study between 1981 and 1985 tended to have been treated with ursodeoxycholic acid as it had become widely available at that time and was considered to be the oral bile acid treatment of choice for gall stone dissolution . |
| 25 | And there were calls for the theatre to close as it had become a big drain on local council finances . |
| 26 | The league said it would not send cats to Coundon as it had heard of a case of a kitten being used as live bait for dogs . |
| 27 | It must have been a popular book as it had gone to five editions by 1656 , and twenty-four editions by 1744 . |
| 28 | Halfway through the final allegro the world came into existence again , as quietly and effortlessly as it had gone . |
| 29 | Now I think what te , what happened there was we er , we drifted away from setting down sc , er , er , scripts to finding good useful key words and phrases out of the paper that we could then fit into the script , and as it had gone that way , I realised it was working , and did n't see any point in trying to get it back to the way it was originally going , because it was going fine . |
| 30 | The British still believed themselves to retain ‘ shared values ’ which the debate over a national educational curriculum in the 1980s helped stimulate anew , as it had done in the French Third Republic after 1875 . |