Example sentences of "[noun prp] as it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even more surprisingly , this little black and white indictment of the National Health Service did almost as well in the United States as it did in Britain . |
| 2 | They took no notice of the black Mercedes as it slipped noiselessly out of the parking space behind them , the driver 's foot hovering over the accelerator . |
| 3 | He managed to turn inside his assailant and opened fire from 200 yards , seeing white vapour trail from the Messerschmitt as it pulled away . |
| 4 | A former Minister of the Republic of Ireland told me recently that sovereignty did not mean the same for the people of Ireland as it did for us . |
| 5 | Beveridge thought a small part of the new scheme 's income should go to the NHS as it had under the old . |
| 6 | ‘ This historic loco is just the attraction and boost we need in a recession , and I 'm confident it 'll be just as popular with the public in Devon as it proved to be on the Bodmin & Wenford Railway in Cornwall . ’ |
| 7 | Life in Takrit in Iraq fifty years ago was based on similar principles for the young Saddam Hussein as it had been in Scorniceşti a generation earlier for Nicolae Ceauşescu . |
| 8 | It would seem that the region of Powys in north-east Wales remained as much in the front-line of warfare with the northern Angles in the time of Eadwine as it had been when Aethelfrith defeated the men of Powys at Chester . |
| 9 | They followed the Thames as it curved down past the Savoy Palace , Durham and York House , past the high-pooped ships scarred from long voyages which were crowding in for repairs . |
| 10 | Practically sprinting the last few yards to the cottage , he pushed inside and dumped her belongings on the kitchen table before dashing out again and after the Land Rover as it groaned and grunted its way up the track to the colonel 's house , presumably driven by the garage mechanic . |
| 11 | Even more sharply , it is impossible for the majority of people to be other than black in South Africa as it became impossible to be other than Jewish for Jews in Nazi Germany . |
| 12 | The alternative option , clearly the one it favoured , was ‘ to accept Israel as it existed on the condition that each refugee be allowed to return to his home , whether it was under Arab or Israeli jurisdiction . ’ |
| 13 | It was achieved in a mood of almost stunned boredom amongst English opinion , confident that the dismantling of the United Kingdom as it had endured since 1707 or 1536 would not in fact take place . |
| 14 | ‘ I want to see the return of the Yorkshire Ridings and the abolition of Humberside and Cleveland so that Yorkshire can again stretch from the Humber to the Tees as it did for a thousand years before 1974 , ’ said Mr Sykes . |
| 15 | ‘ I want to see the return of the Yorkshire Ridings and the abolition of Humberside and Cleveland so that Yorkshire can again stretch from the Humber to the Tees as it did for a thousand years before 1974 , ’ said Mr Sykes . |
| 16 | Gen. Kadijevic stated on the same day that " Yugoslavia as it existed until now has ceased to be " and that " the army is therefore taking certain decisions into its own hands " . |
| 17 | But Yugoslavia maintained restrictions which prevent the Soviet navy from coming ashore in Yugoslavia as it had in Egypt . |
| 18 | The suggestion that Thomas 's race was a consideration in his nomination was highly embarrassing for Bush as it coincided with the president 's unrelenting opposition to a civil rights bill passed by Congress which he had pledged to veto on the grounds that it supported minority quotas . |
| 19 | This was to see if there were any experiences that could be of use to the LEA as it looked at its own internal processes , particularly the support services it provides for its schools . |
| 20 | Hickson , the Secretary of the Cambridge Board , proposed a shared responsibility for the scheme with the LEA as it offered an opportunity for the Board to extend its role and influence within its region — a new policy stance linked to the Board 's gradual withdrawal from its traditional national university extension role . |
| 21 | As Gilbert 's words faded , he was back at the Unit again , listening to the thing which had once been Dr Bissell as it said … |
| 22 | BRITISH Airways yesterday became the latest casualty of Black Wednesday as it revealed the slumping pound had helped cause profits to crash 80 per cent in the third quarter . |
| 23 | In those days I was going , and was only intrigued to learn that it was Mespot or Iraq as it became . |
| 24 | Kerrey 's withdrawal was seen as particularly good news for Clinton as it offered the prospect of removing from the campaign the rancorous legacy of the Vietnam war . |
| 25 | We planned to use the north-south route through Tamanrasset in Algeria as it had the greatest number of watering points . |
| 26 | Darwinism entered into the panslavism of Danilevsky as it did into panteutonism . |
| 27 | Many aspects of the diplomatic organisation of western and central Europe as it existed by the beginning of the seventeenth century continued with little essential change down to the French Revolution and indeed beyond . |
| 28 | All of them tended to assume that the territorial division of Europe as it stood at the moment of their publication was , or could be made , permanent and sacrosanct . |
| 29 | The car , a 1986 Chaika that owed its style as much to the 1958 Cadillac Eldorado as it did to the people 's revolution , sped along a country road . |
| 30 | Kermit and his staff had been watching Hurricane Andrew as it tore through the Bahamas . |