as it was planned

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

They are calling for the government to go ahead with the election as it was planned.

A second senior U.N. official, who was also involved in the Iraqi election, told me that for months before the election he warned the C.P.A. and his superiors that the voting as it was planned would not meet U.N. standards.

The cutting (which a reading of the script reveals to have been carried out almost exactly as it was planned) is elegantly precise, and some sequences have a good, sophomoric musical-comedy buoyancy.

If you're making a custard pie in the last minute of the show what do you expect is going to happen, not really that funny as it was planned.

The NJDOT hoped to get funding for the freeway in 1970 for it to become an Interstate highway as it was planned to serve a proposed national recreation area along the Delaware River that would have been built in conjunction with the controversial Tocks Island Dam project.

A sample size of 70 completed was chosen with 20% over-sampling as it was planned to use ordered logistical regression.

So as it was planning an exit strategy for Olds, GM decided to pump $1.5 billion into resurrecting Saturn, finally giving it a full lineup.

The benefit to this new situation is that the startup can launch without raising additional funding, as it was planning to do earlier.

Document each event or important meeting as it's planned.

But, according to him, the company turned down his request as it is planning its own tribute album with artists currently signed to its label.

Even so, the company's decision to cut research budgets as it is planning to recommit to its pharmaceutical core struck some as risky.