Example sentences of "[noun prp] as it had " in BNC.

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1 Beveridge thought a small part of the new scheme 's income should go to the NHS as it had under the old .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 But Yugoslavia maintained restrictions which prevent the Soviet navy from coming ashore in Yugoslavia as it had in Egypt .
6 We planned to use the north-south route through Tamanrasset in Algeria as it had the greatest number of watering points .
7 Except that they did not go , as promised , to the Rotunda , but went instead to a rival attraction advertised in Saunder 's News-Letter & Daily Advertiser : one , indeed , which ensured that Monsieur Jerricault 's Great Picture did not triumph in Dublin as it had done in London .
8 The league said it would not send cats to Coundon as it had heard of a case of a kitten being used as live bait for dogs .
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