Example sentences of "as it have [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could hardly limp across the room and offer her a plastic spoon , especially as it had already been used . |
| 2 | Over the years this must have harmed his chest , as it had already badly discoloured his teeth . |
| 3 | Only after the war was it revealed that reports concerning the role of the task force had been an element of allied disinformation as it had already been decided not to conduct an amphibious assault . |
| 4 | In 1456 Coventry negotiated freedom from tolls in Southampton , as it had already done with another port which served it , namely Bristol . |
| 5 | She was glad to get away for a change of scene , as it had just been confirmed that Steve had been killed , and her place was taken by Nancy , a tall , dark Scots girl , who fitted into the Met team very well . |
| 6 | Our next port of call would be Constantinople — or , as it had just been renamed , Istanbul . |
| 7 | They presented a target thus for only a matter of seconds , though three of them fell in that time ; then they were hand-to-hand and at blows with the prince 's bodyguard and this was battle as it had formerly been understood between knights , and the hovering archers were crippled and out of the fight . |
| 8 | For a long time after independence , English was the language of the educated élite , just as it had largely been that of the colonial administration . |
| 9 | I felt a touch of the sinister that rules so many of the islands ; there was no reason to shiver in that warm spot , but I did , and experienced a slight sense of embarrassment , as though I had been intruding , thinking perhaps not of Tiare but of the great love all those years ago which had produced her : forty years ago when the water was cascading over the same cliff in just the same way as it had today , Princess Tiare 's mother and her lover had bathed in the same secret pool and later , perhaps , made love in the cave behind . |
| 10 | In tropical oceans , there is also the problem of the teredo worm , one of the lamellibranch family of boring molluscs , whose destructive vigour proved as deadly to submarine cables as it had previously done to ships ' timbers , wharves and sea dykes . |
| 11 | France Telecom has moved to try to improve the situation — nearly a month ago , the operator reviewed its objectives and decided to offer GSM service to 90% of the French population in 1994 , rather than in 1997 , as it had previously planned , but that was not enough to satisfy the new government . |
| 12 | Unionist concerns were still as much with traditional areas of disagreement with the Liberals as with the War ; the UBC made the running with its concern to shield British industry from the war , much as it had previously been intended to protect it through tariffs , and Stanley Baldwin first made his name through its committees . |
| 13 | It declared reinstated the 1938 Constitution to underpin a provisional new " basic law " , and terminated the validity of the April 20 , 1978 , Soviet Lithuanian Constitution and of the 1977 USSR Constitution as it had previously applied on Lithuanian territory . |
| 14 | The publication by Lobachevsky in 1829 of a consistent ( non-Euclidean ) geometry , in which Euclid 's parallel postulate is denied , should perhaps have turned mathematicians ' attention back to a study of axioms , especially as it had long been appreciated that Euclid 's use of the axiomatic method was , to say the least , inconsistent ( [ 106 ] contains stronger views . ) |
| 15 | The appearance of the locomotive was a surprise as it had recently been transferred to Kentish Town to work Midland Express trains out of St. Pancras . |
| 16 | In the Renaissance , which began in Italy in the fifteenth century , ancient art and literature began to be rediscovered with a freshness which inspired a new confidence in man 's capacity to enquire into and understand the past as it had really been , and a desire to emulate its achievements for himself . |
| 17 | Language itself , he said , would cease to function as it had always functioned , it would only be a strange dead thing , smouldering perhaps , but burnt out , no longer conveying any meaning . |
| 18 | The area was still packed at weekends , despite a frenetic quality to the enjoyment ; and , it was the same sun and the same lake as it had always been , dotted with the yachts of the rich . |
| 19 | When factory industry began to take over , however , the mills were built at Hebden Bridge below , to take advantage of the water-power provided by the river and the transport facility of the canal , so Hebden Bridge grew fast into a busy mill town whilst Heptonstall remained as it had always been . |
| 20 | Not to answer the summons made matters worse , as it had always done , and particularly if it concerned a mortgage . |
| 21 | It was not just a reason to indulge in nostalgia ; though the tradition was basically the same as it had always been , except that in the past the people had walked further in the processions . |
| 22 | But Edouard had no intention of going public ; he wanted de Chavigny to remain a private company , as it had always been , with the reins of power firmly in one pair of hands : his hands . |
| 23 | His goal remained , as it had always been , partnership with Britain within the empire , and he required only to be convinced of British sincerity in working towards this goal to accept the principle of reaching it by easy stages . |
| 24 | The Tower was , as it had always been , both fortress and residence . |
| 25 | It was there for them as it had always been . |
| 26 | The place was as it had always been , a downland in miniature , a terrain of small green hills on which little dolmens had been raised , pink granite , white marble , a slab or two of grey stone . |
| 27 | Aunt Lou 's house looked exactly as it had always done . |
| 28 | That was as far as modernisation had gone : the other end of the scullery was just as it had always been , with the old deep sink for laundry , served by a single , presumably cold tap , and in the corner beyond it the copper for ‘ the boil ’ . |
| 29 | The wall was as it had always been … but at the centre was a black smear , like the blackened smear that might be left by some kind of fire ; as if a blowlamp had been held there . |
| 30 | ‘ Better than what ? ’ she asked innocently , thinking that two could play at that game of acting as though everything were the same as it had always been . |