Example sentences of "as it have [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1456 Coventry negotiated freedom from tolls in Southampton , as it had already done with another port which served it , namely Bristol . |
| 2 | In tropical oceans , there is also the problem of the teredo worm , one of the lamellibranch family of boring molluscs , whose destructive vigour proved as deadly to submarine cables as it had previously done to ships ' timbers , wharves and sea dykes . |
| 3 | It declared reinstated the 1938 Constitution to underpin a provisional new " basic law " , and terminated the validity of the April 20 , 1978 , Soviet Lithuanian Constitution and of the 1977 USSR Constitution as it had previously applied on Lithuanian territory . |
| 4 | Having made sure from Miss Miggs that she would n't mind if the mistletoe in her apple-tree were sold , especially as it had never occurred to her that she could sell it , three excited Brownies hurried away from Sundial Cottage and did n't pause until they reached Anne 's father 's greengrocery shop . |
| 5 | Once her mother , talking of Christmas , had said that as a child she had herself received no presents , as it had never occurred to anyone to buy such things — but that one year her elder brother , thinking to tease her , had hung at the end of her bed a stocking , and that when , excited , she had sprung to open it , she found it contained ashes from last night 's grate . |
| 6 | From counting for virtually nothing in positivist criminology it now seemed to count for everything , as it had originally done in classical criminology . |
| 7 | If she were to open the door perhaps the blackness would be out there now , ready to swallow her , as it had almost done on that previous occasion ; or would she wander endlessly in a limbo of greyness , forever trapped between Johnny 's time and her own ? |
| 8 | It is important here , though , not to take the notion of " education " in any narrow sense , since the mission of national education as it operated between 1880 and 1920 encompassed institutions , events , and locations well beyond the scope of education as it has since come to be formally conceived . |
| 9 | Industry is in no position to undertake a surcharge on its costs , and will probably reply , as it has just done on the question of arts funding , that industrial sponsorship is a supplement to government funding : it is not available as a substitute for it . |
| 10 | Often ‘ community health ’ , ‘ public health ’ or ‘ community health medicine ’ , ( as it has recently decided to be called ) , deals with the community in the above manner , that of a doctor dealing with an individual : the doctor examines and prescribes , the patient listens and obeys . |
| 11 | Unless the Community has enacted legislation to apply the competition rules specifically to the activities of such undertakings , as it has recently done in the telecommunications sector , many public utilities such as water authorities , state postal services or state railways fall outside the competition rules . |
| 12 | As it has often done in the modern period , the experience of war had given those who had taken part in it and survived it a new and more confident awareness of their own worth and standing . |
| 13 | But the ICA responded to this challenge as it has always done with the difficult or the new ; with the sort of calculated risk-taking that the majority of Arts Council-sponsored venues habitually shy away from . |
| 14 | One problem hampering the incident investigators is that they can not immediately examine the section of the tank which was holed as it has now sunk to below ground level . |