Example sentences of "as [pron] [vb past] [be] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The battered red car arrived at 7pm , Maria Yackle was dressed as she had been for her previous visit , but because it was rather cold , wore a jacket made of synthetic fur as well . |
| 2 | They were unfortunate in that batting conditions for them were not as favourable as they had been for the West Indians . |
| 3 | Ipswich were as lethargic at the start of the second half as they had been for the majority of the first and on the hour , in an attempt to liven them up , Lyall brought off Milton and Goddard to introduce Palmer and Johnson . |
| 4 | They were located above the centre of the road instead of being drawn out to one side , as they had been for the trams . |
| 5 | But the South African Rugby Board and the South African Rugby Union continued to get bogged down , as they had been for the last three years , even with the help of intermediaries of the stature of Nelson Mandela , in their attempts to reach accord and form one , united body for rugby football in their country . |
| 6 | Twenty-five years to the day since England beat West Germany 4–2 in extra time at Wembley to win the World Cup for the first time and , so far , only time in a glorious ( etc , etc — the back pages that morning were awash , as they had been for days , with nostalgia and breast-beating and rush-of-blood reminiscence ) footballing history ; the apotheosis of the game , which , according to one writer at the time , ‘ lives like an extra pulse in the people of industrial England . ’ |
| 7 | Most superior buildings also sustained their Palladian principles , but they became less formal : for example , the central salon , the grand reception room of the Palladian house ( Fig. 14 ) , lost some of its ceremonial identity and might even be occupied by a billiard table ; women were no longer debarred from the library , as they had been for much of the previous century . |
| 8 | On the contrary , such dispositions of honores and patronage were , as they had been for Charles 's predecessors , crucial instruments of royal power in the regions . |
| 9 | The England that Pound mourns the loss of is , as it had been for him from the first , an integral province of western Europe , sharing a common culture with France and always reaching out , through France , to the shores of the Mediterranean . |
| 10 | But the issue was still a tactical one , as it had been for Marx ; national liberation was a means to support or obstruct the unity of the working class and the achievement of socialist revolution in Russia , not a matter of general principle . |
| 11 | It was a fortress town and a trading centre , as it had been for the Romans 800 years earlier . |
| 12 | They used computers instead of quill pens , but the outcome of their labours was still the same as it had been for centuries — trade , the buying and selling of things that other people made . |
| 13 | At least until 1917 , and to some extent even until 1945 , Europe was the decisive arena of world power , as it had been for centuries . |
| 14 | Accordingly , he attempted to shift Marxism away from orthodox theories of an absolute determinism towards the primacy of a concept of ‘ History ’ which , while still a totality as it had been for Lukács , a process with a determinate meaning and end , could also include a concept of human agency and thus articulate the individual with the social , freedom with determinism . |
| 15 | In 1817 England was still , as it had been for centuries , an agricultural nation , only 20 per cent of the population living in towns . |
| 16 | In the eighteenth century the possession of land was still , as it had been for centuries , the only firm basis of influence and power . |
| 17 | In cases where marriage has been discussed , pregnancy is not unwelcome , and may even have been anticipated , as it had been for Claire , who married her husband when she was five months pregnant . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But , I think it would be illusory to think that we can maintain our profits from land in ninety three at the same level as it had been for ninety one and two . |
| 20 | Paul climbed the stairs in trepidation ; had he made some mistake in the corrections , blind with pain as he had been for part of the day ? |
| 21 | This shows that Anselm was quite as ready to face exile for the primacy as he had been for obedience to the pope . |
| 22 | To be sure , one could sympathize with the sentiments of some of those penitents who refused themselves pleasures because the Emperor , saviour of mankind , could experience no pleasure whatever , locked as he had been for millennia in his prosthetic throne … |
| 23 | Because the tentacled exter was a living legend — of crime — as he had been for longer than I 'd been alive . |
| 24 | Here , as he had been for much of the past week , Thomas was contentedly playing . |