Example sentences of "as it had " in BNC.
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| 31 | They doubt whether the Court of Appeal would reach the same conclusion today as it had last year about the reliability of the convictions , since the Guildford case had raised questions on the adequacy of reviews of possible wrongful conviction . |
| 32 | In January 1987 , yet another judge stated that the March ruling was , in fact , in breach of statute but as it had not been appealed against it had to stand . |
| 33 | Faldo , who had holed a motorway of putts in the final round , holed yet another on that green , up went his arms in a triumphant ‘ V ’ and an Augustan decade had ended as it had begun , with a European as Master . |
| 34 | The old imperial line of communication through the Mediterranean , Suez Canal , Red Sea and Indian Ocean to the Far East and the Antipodes would be just as important to the Commonwealth as it had been to the colonial Empire . |
| 35 | Higher than its current rate of 1.8m ( 6.2% ) , but probably not as high as it had to in the mid-1980s . |
| 36 | In 1933 roughly 4,000 banks shut their doors , and the United States was left with only half as many as it had had in 1929 . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | The poet 's paternal grandmother , Rachel Phillips , was a native of Abertillery ( or Blaenau Gwent ) where a native Welsh tradition had survived , as it had in the Tredegar of her youth . |
| 39 | The plan was also prepared in a different way from those drafted by the US divisions , as it had to be to give proper consideration to the problems and needs of a totally different planning environment . |
| 40 | It felt heavy and lifeless , in much the same way as it had felt that day in Spain when he had gone off the road . |
| 41 | SOON THEY BECAME VERY MUCH AS IT HAD BEEN BEFORE THEIR separation , except that Gina was a little more violent . |
| 42 | The police at Southampton had got in touch with Bath , asking what was to be done with the bike , as it had apparently been abandoned . |
| 43 | Her heart was beating wildly as it had for days whenever the telephone bell rang anywhere she happened to be . |
| 44 | It is therefore true to say that by the mid-1930s , the Labour Party was truly , as it had never been before , the party of the working class . |
| 45 | Unemployment problems put paid to Labour 's political prospects in the early 1930s just as much as it had helped the party to rise to political power in the 1920s . |
| 46 | I closed my eyes for the rest of the journey as it had been a busy two days and I did n't feel lik& going to the council offices either , It would be too late anyway so I decided to take a stroll by the river and see how Nigel was getting on with the excavations . |
| 47 | It conjured shapes out of the darkness , as it had in his nightmares . |
| 48 | He could hardly limp across the room and offer her a plastic spoon , especially as it had already been used . |
| 49 | Jerusalem occupied the centre of this sacred universe , as it had done among the Jews . |
| 50 | There were recluses in this age , like St Romuald who resigned the archbishopric of Ravenna almost as soon as it had been thrust upon him by Otto III in order to lead a life of private prayer and asceticism . |
| 51 | I saw Masha gliding through towards us : that unmistakable froth of brown hair , the exuberant , doll-like face ; and behind her , over-topping her , the bleak , dark face of Victor Surkov , his hair not grey as it had been when we last met some six years ago , but a brilliant yellow spreading down over his shoulders . |
| 52 | This was largely but not exclusively an obsession of Congregationalists , much as it had been of mediaeval bishops . |
| 53 | As it had in 1945 , 1964 and 1974 , Labour would inherit the mess the Tories had left behind , he said , but , this time , with an historic mission to clean it up for good . |
| 54 | Having seen Faldo retain the title in 1990 , Woosnam was aware that lightning could strike twice , metaphorically on this course as well as literally , as it had done on Saturday and threatened to do again yesterday . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | The area was still packed at weekends , despite a frenetic quality to the enjoyment ; and , it was the same sun and the same lake as it had always been , dotted with the yachts of the rich . |
| 57 | The French boat slipped away as silently as it had arrived . |
| 58 | He reported success with Yellow-root ( i.e. Hydrastis canadensis ) as it had ‘ flowered and ripened seeds in our garden , two years past , from some roots which were sent me from the inland parts of your country . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | The Bike Sub-Committee was still being urged to proceed , yet a month later the subject was adjourned , only to be urged on again the month following — ‘ so long as it had a corrugated iron roof ’ , presumably a financial stringency to keep the cost down to £15 . |