Example sentences of "[verb] as it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | They explained that the meeting was cancelled and everyone dispersed as it had been confirmed that the government was about to arrest all strike leaders . |
| 2 | The house looked as it had done for three centuries ; Lord Cumbermound was in no doubt that it would manage another three . |
| 3 | Poland was not even in the same shape or place as it had been , and virtually the only thing that now united the Poles of the different partition experiences , religious beliefs and political outlooks was a new found sense of Polish national feeling . |
| 4 | Their hay would be fed as it had been cut , handful by handful , and should be enough with seaweed and oat straw to feed her till she was helped out in the spring . |
| 5 | Language itself , he said , would cease to function as it had always functioned , it would only be a strange dead thing , smouldering perhaps , but burnt out , no longer conveying any meaning . |
| 6 | But Spain would never again be as politically and economically isolated as it had been between 1945 and 1950 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But American imperialism was on the alert to intervene as it had done in the past ’ ( Roy : 1964 , p. 346 ) . |
| 9 | The luncheon table was laid as it had been for 50 Christmases , with a pyramid of polished John Standish apples from Somerset in the middle , flanked by Christmas roses and trails of ivy . |
| 10 | We chartered a STOL ( short take-off and landing ) aircraft from the Summer Institute of Linguistics , a missionary organisation , and flew to Loreto , which from the map appeared to be a promising area for collecting as it had no roads and therefore no colonists . |
| 11 | Unionists of the time would scarcely have recognized the terms of the debate , for in 1922 the party was still embroiled with Ireland and the House of Lords , held a smaller share of the popular vote than ever before , and was still split as it had been since 1902 ; few Unionists would have seen the war as a turning-point for the better in the party fortunes . |
| 12 | And thus it was agreed between them that all this compilation should stand as it had done . |
| 13 | The last straw was when a totally serious Westite Unionist remarked that , as it was a shooting matter , he recommended that it should be left to the army to investigate as it had a lot of experience of shootings of one kind and another . |
| 14 | After a few years , the conclusion was reached that the experiment had not worked as it had been expected to , and cuts in educational spending soon brought it to an end . |
| 15 | I was paid good money for 3½ years to do something about the problems of North Shields and a particular component of doing something was describing what things were like , giving an account of how they had come to be like this , and attempting to understand why the process had happened as it had . |
| 16 | This was n't supposed to happen — but then , nothing today had happened as it had been supposed to . |
| 17 | In Stenhouse Australia Ltd v Phillips [ 1974 ] AC 391 the restraint of trade clause was part of an agreement made between the parties after employment had ceased as it had been in Wyatt 's case . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The day ended as it had begun with a win for Carl Fogarty , with Robert Dunlop getting his hat-trick , and Jim Moodie , making it only three winners for the seven races . |
| 21 | And there were calls for the theatre to close as it had become a big drain on local council finances . |
| 22 | If Offa thought he could attempt ‘ to deal on equal terms ’ with Charlemagne , therefore , he was mistaken , and the likelihood is that the Frankish court had come to view his ascendancy in southern England with misgivings , destroying as it had done the traditional shape of political power in the south-east . |
| 23 | Though her heart was thumping as it had then , no one but herself would ever know it . |
| 24 | Since the direction of the direct and the indirect effect is the same ( which need not always be so ) , the size of the effect of job type on absenteeism would not be as large once sex was controlled as it had seemed in the bivariate relationship . |
| 25 | Rome ended as it had begun , in some controversy . |
| 26 | DECEMBER ENDED as it had begun , both bleak and cold . |
| 27 | The Italian team 's French driver Jean Alesi posed for photographers in the new model but was unable to demonstrate the lightweight 644-B 's abilities at the car 's unveiling as it had broken down on Tuesday before it could be taken on a test run . |
| 28 | The ground staff at Edinburgh were very helpful , and when we finally boarded ( in really raw and biting cold and -2 degrees centigrade ) thanked me for having my luggage so clearly labelled as it had helped them get it to the hold doors for immediate removal at Brussels . |
| 29 | However , on the facts of the case the plaintiff 's claim failed as it had not proved : ( a ) the existence of a " maturing " business opportunity ; ( b ) that it was actively pursuing the business either when the defendant resigned or when he subsequently obtained the contracts ; or ( c ) that his resignation was prompted or influenced by the wish to acquire the benefit of the contracts for himself . |
| 30 | Opinion in both these movements , however , was as strongly divided as it had been among the trade union movement and the Independent Labour Party twenty years before . |