Example sentences of "[noun] were [adv] [adj] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sgt Hayter 's problems were only half over as the height of the museum building was too low to allow assembly inside the building , so R5868 had to be assembled outside . |
| 2 | According to this synthesis , Keynesian unemployment was a phenomenon which was primarily attributable to downwardly sticky money wages and prices , the obvious implication being that general unemployment would never arise if money wages and prices were perfectly flexible downwards as well as upwards . |
| 3 | Our waterproof walking boots were really necessary here as we balanced on rocks to cross the gushing stream . |
| 4 | The big , light-hungry leaves were almost black now as I walked briskly back along the path searching for the track to take me back to the lodge . |
| 5 | Racial politics were as distasteful then as now but were as the government put it " part of an essential compromise " . |