Example sentences of "[noun pl] as it have " in BNC.

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1 It rustled round her ears as it had done before she went into mourning .
2 Throughout the seventeenth century , and far into the eighteenth , the issue of precedence continued to arouse strong feeling and generate disputes as it had done in earlier generations .
3 The success of the variety multiples has meant that manufacturers have had to reappraise their sales channels as it has meant a concentration of purchasing power into fewer hands .
4 This is the famous ‘ baby boom ’ , shared more or less by all Western industrial countries ( not Eastern Europe or Japan ) , which has now produced almost as many books as it has people .
5 The family , he maintains , has not so much lost its functions as it has become more specialized in its functions .
6 It seems to me a matter of the highest possible importance that where a quasi-judicial function is being exercised , under such circumstances as it had to be exercised here , with the result of depriving people of their property , especially if it is done without compensation , the persons concerned should be satisfied that nothing unfair has been done in the matter , and that ex parte statements have not been heard before the decision has been given without any chance for the person concerned to refute those statements .
7 When one turns to his large-scale tonal designs , unexplored until now , it becomes apparent that Lully 's influence is as preponderant in Campra 's cantatas as it had been in his stage music .
8 Parliament has less influence over such matters as it has either to depend on the Commission to incorporate its views into an amended proposal or to reject the Council 's common position on legislation by an absolute majority ( currently 260 votes from its 518 members ) .
9 The second ( b ) suggests that the ratio may not increase as steadily in the mid-1980s as it had hitherto because the freeze on places and the shift towards science and technology would militate against women .
10 More pointedly , such analyses are concerned with measuring the effects of wage movements ; the causes have to be sought in the actual , real-world process of industrial relations — an environment as uncongenial to economists as it has been to many industrial managers .
11 The name Venturous was a break from the long line of traditional names for Cutters as it had never previously been used .
12 Third , the Registrar 's certificate will be given the same effect as regards further particulars as it has with respect to the creation of a charge .
13 The Gould machine was set like clockwork to continue ticking as methodically for the next two years as it had for the last eight .
14 She had , after all , been successful in making contact with Veronica Puddephat , although the meeting had raised as many questions as it had answered .
15 T his new economic process , assisted by an increasing effective demand , was to have the same impact on feudal manufacturing structures as it had in agriculture — it destroyed the old order of things .
16 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 .
17 1.3 Problems caused by the judgment in Faccenda Chicken The judgment of the Court of Appeal in the Faccenda case has been perceived to cause as many problems as it has solved .
18 The grounds of appeal were , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the justices had exercised their discretion to award costs on the wrong principles as it had not been shown that the local authority had acted in bad faith or unreasonable in the performance of its statutory duties or had acted unreasonably in the conduct of the proceedings before the court ; ( 2 ) there were no circumstances which justified the making of the costs order ; ( 3 ) the justice should have found that there were good reasons for the local authority to be concerned about the father 's ability to care for the children , the local authority was not bound to adopt the view of the guardian ad litem and the local authority had communicated the decision not to oppose the father 's application within a reasonable time on receiving the report of the guardian ad litem ; ( 4 ) the justices had been wrong to assume that the change in the view of the local authority amounted to an admission that the views of the local authority had been wrong all the time .
19 X/Open says it is taking DCE on the same terms as it has taken object specifications from OMG .
20 Militarisation worked for the Nazis as it had for the Prussians in that it helped control large numbers of people , allowed a cheap and easy growth of populist emotion and nationalist identity and became the mainspring of industry by providing demand .
21 Having half expected that hair to feel crisp , to prickle beneath her palms as it had against her breasts , she was surprised to find that it felt as soft as down .
22 And it was this convergence that engendered a tradition among the working-class electorate of voting Labour ; Labour came to be identified with working-class interests as it had never been before .
23 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 .
24 Moreover , such a demonstration would produce an accessible shop window of ‘ green ’ street environments which could have just as dramatic an effect on the way we think about our public spaces as it has done for the Germans .
25 There are fears of further leaks as it 's towed away .
26 Little did those two cricketers — the veteran Bill Lister and his friend John Beanlands — think when they instituted the tradesmen 's match that it would have assumed such proportions as it had .
27 His word conveyed power and achieved results as it had from the time of creation itself .
28 It gives a neat neckline which looks hand stitched and is ideal for children as it has lots of stretch .
29 What hope there is resides primarily in the same section of the news-stands as it has for several years — the ‘ serious ’ and ‘ specialist ’ music press .
30 Luckily the washing machine coped as adequately with Ruth 's clothes as it had been doing for the past six years .
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