Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [adv] [adv] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BCCI 's " major customers and shareholders " were aware as early as April 1990 , it said , of widespread fraud and manipulation of banking records within BCCI ; " the precise amount of such losses and fictitious profits [ over the period from 1977 to 1985 ] can not now be established " , but could have approached US$1,000 million . |
| 2 | Whatever it might have been , it was short-lived so far as James was concerned . |
| 3 | The coexistence in Francia of Louis and Lothar as co-emperors was possible so long as Lothar remained unmarried . |
| 4 | The balcony was cool and the night was dark as far as Broadway , where a slab of writhing electricity changed the colour of all the window panes on the other side of the street . |
| 5 | This , however , was impossible so long as descent was reckoned according to mother right . |
| 6 | Mr Loxton 's evidence was shaky as far as time was concerned . |
| 7 | She 'd always heard that his charm was legendary as far as women were concerned and this evening was certainly proving the truth of it . |
| 8 | This article has shown that Burton-Roberts ' instinct that apposition is a discourse phenomenon , or , more particularly , a rhetorical device was correct as far as reformulations are concerned . |
| 9 | That was sustainable so long as France faced an unquestioned nuclear threat from the Soviet Union , and needed to respond with only small-scale military operations overseas ( in Chad , for example , or Gabon ) . |