Example sentences of "as it [adv] [vb past] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was still as mellow and welcoming as it ever had been but now the pine panelling was softly golden , gleaming with wax polish . |
| 2 | Life was the same as it ever had been . |
| 3 | The text as it now stood was a compromise . |
| 4 | The modification of the programme had angered Finance Minister Theodor Stolojan and Trade and Industry Minister of State Anton Vatasescu , and on March 20 they had tendered their resignations , complaining that the programme as it now stood was insufficiently radical . |
| 5 | The situation as it then existed was such that , given a free hand , the consultant anaesthetist in charge of the unit would unhesitatingly have administered a blood transfusion , but felt inhibited from doing so in the light of Miss T. 's expressed wishes . |
| 6 | The ducal retinue as it then stood was the creation of the previous fourteen years , during which Gloucester , with royal backing , had built up his power from negligible beginnings to become the acknowledged lord of the north . |
| 7 | The ducal retinue as it then stood was the creation of the previous fourteen years , during which Gloucester , with royal backing , had built up his power from negligible beginnings to become the acknowledged lord of the north . |
| 8 | just as it always had been . |
| 9 | The third leg of the 1948 tripartite structure to the NHS was the community health service administered , as it always had been , by local authorities and hence financed like any other local service partly by central government grant and partly out of local revenue — the rates . |
| 10 | It was straight , as it always had been , no bias to the left , no bend at all . |