Example sentences of "as [pron] has [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 For her , there is some slight security in the continuity of attending to all the basic daily household tasks as she has done for many years , but when his ‘ first wave ’ of helpers begins to depart he will have to learn to do much more for himself to keep his home going , which will be an added burden to those he is already carrying .
2 While in the long term the mother may well be able to obtain employment in Australia , as she has done in the past , understandably it would not be her wish or intention to do so in the short-term .
3 Her last with Penguin , as she has moved to HarperCollins , but the publicity is still tied in with her new hardback ( Fallen Skies ) .
4 This will be wonderful in the bookshops as she has returned to the ghost story , and although it is reputed not to be as good as The Woman in Black , its sales are going to be .
5 The aid programme , as it has developed over the last thirty years , has failed in terms of its original objective , i.e. the promotion of a pattern of economic growth in which the injection of external finance on soft terms was no longer necessary .
6 The fundamental novelty about social anthropology , as it has developed since the days of Malinowski , is that the fieldworking anthropologist tries to understand alien societies from the inside rather than from the outside .
7 The study of social policy , as it has developed in Britain , has been concerned to examine the extent to which the welfare state meets people 's needs .
8 The place appears exactly as it has done through the ages , the only signs of man 's intrusion being a ruined bothy , an insecure footbridge and the thin track worn by hardy walkers .
9 Today it still has a market as it has done since 1255 and retains its lively and bustling atmosphere .
10 The fund claimed that the NSF was breaking the law by burning food waste in an incinerator , as it has done since October 1991 , without first preparing an environmental impact statement .
11 Farming thrives as it has done down the years and now with the swallows come the caravans to the clifftop with people in search of sea , sand and serenity .
12 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 .
13 The uncanny , oppressive atmosphere still hangs over that spot as it has done for over twenty years .
14 dying as it has done on other nights
15 The committee proposals for a Cornwall and West Plymouth European parliamentary constituency provoked an enormous response opposing the link with Plymouth er as it has done on each occasion that the constituency 's been reviewed .
16 It is something of a revelation that this memory from over thirty years ago should have remained with Miss Kenton as it has done with me .
17 The British press , it could be hoped , would play down its finding in a ‘ responsible ’ way as it has done with those of the European Commission of Human Rights in 19761 and the European Court of Human Rights in 1977 .
18 Instead of giving priority to private enterprise , as it has done until now , the government should be channelling funds to the Soprintendenze , so that they can act effectively , working together with the universities , the regions , the church authorities , and research institutes active in this field .
19 When the banner of religion is raised as a banner of politics , blood will flow , just as it has done in Belfast , Beirut and Colombo .
20 Consequently saturation street parking emerges as just as serious a problem as it has done in Mainz , particularly near the busy perimeter roads with their shops and offices .
21 We did not want the ANL to claim credit for the march by swamping it with its placards ( as it has done in the past ) when it played no part in the march 's organisation .
22 At the same time , the concept of the unitary individual subject , on which he relies , should come under fire — as it has done in recent years , under the influence of post-structuralist thought .
23 It goes like this : when the IMF devises an adjustment package — as it has done in over 50 countries — social service budgets are cut to the bone .
24 ‘ Unless there is a change of heart and a positive determination to rid ourselves completely of this terrorism , then it is bound to happen in places such as Castlerock , as it has done in other areas . ’
25 Executive Support Manager Allan Paterson looks back over the TOP Programme as it has progressed at Hunterston and considers some of its achievements .
26 It is small wonder that Dr Underwood finds it a ‘ little disconcerting ’ as the inference of the inquiry , as far as it has gone at present , would appear to be that it is better for a child to stay in East London sleeping irregular hours in ill ventilated shelters and eating fish and chips than to have fresh air conditions in one of our Camps with regular hours of sleep and plenty of well prepared wholesome food ( in which vegetables fresh from the garden play a large part ) forming a diet balanced in accordance with the best advice obtainable from the Board of Education and others …
27 There is a perfectly respectable case to be made for Irish republicanism , and one which , as it happens , has some penetrating things to say about democracy as it has operated in Northern Ireland .
28 And , as it is also obvious that this tendency is becoming a worldwide one , it means that the game will in due course suffer everywhere as it has suffered in South Africa .
29 The turbulence will be all the greater because of the confusions of the underlying thinking as it has emerged from the political process .
30 The first-year unit integrates the approaches of historians and political scientists by focusing on the changing characteristics of the state as it has emerged in the modern world .
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