Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] as [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some were only as big as a chicken , while others grew to a length of about 5 metres . |
| 2 | The Pentland Firth and Scapa Flow , Lerwick and Sullom Voe were soon as familiar as the south coast and the Solent had become in the past , but familiarity would never make us treat these places with anything but respect and I tried never to take chances . |
| 3 | It would show that the behaviour of humans was governed by principles of cause and effect which were just as invariable as the behaviour of matter , the subject of the natural sciences . |
| 4 | The poor were just as stupid as the rich ; he had only contempt for both of them . |
| 5 | And the scars of Labour ministers were just as plentiful as the ones on Tory backs . |
| 6 | Dennis Mather , James 's uncle , urged the public to contain their anger , saying that the family were just as enraged as the people of the surrounding area . |
| 7 | His Majesty appealed to him as a Statesman and as one who had been a Minister of the Crown to place before everything the present dangerous situation of the country , Sir Herbert replied that he and his party were just as patriotic as the Conservatives : the country would be in far greater danger from Tariffs — price of food stuffs would rise , there would be strikes and outbreaks all over the country . |
| 8 | Seven weeks had elapsed , and her self-inflicted wounds were still as raw as the day that she 'd left . |
| 9 | The images were still as clear as the rain that had fallen so dispiritedly on the mourners as they stood at one side of the grave while the rector had intoned the fateful words . |
| 10 | They were also as pleased as the audiences . |
| 11 | Jekub 's back wheels were nearly as high as a human . |
| 12 | For a start many of the buildings were nearly as old as the organisation . |
| 13 | Its fragrance possessed the odour of amber , and hyacinths , basils , roses and tulips were blooming as far as the eye could reach . |
| 14 | The crucial point here is that individual perceptions about benefits and the legitimacy of state actions to overcome economic crises were equally as important as the crises themselves . |
| 15 | Few Tories were quite as extreme as the Earl of Rochester , who at the renewal of hostilities in 1702 argued for a strictly limited naval war as the best way to check the power of France , and most recognised the need for some form of combined operations . |
| 16 | Their gardens , too , were twice as big as the labourers ' . |
| 17 | Significantly , the use of interviews and questionnaires in mass surveys depended upon the notion that the responses offered by respondents about their conditions and experiences were almost as good as the direct observation of the respondents and their lives ; a far greater coverage of the population could be achieved than by using observational methods . |
| 18 | But at fifty yards the French muskets were almost as accurate as the Baker rifle . |
| 19 | The gentry were almost as dissatisfied as the peasantry . |
| 20 | By the end of 1986 building society shares and deposits were almost as large as the total sterling deposits of the retail banks and if we confine our attention to deposits of the personal sector alone , then personal sector building society deposits outnumber personal sector ‘ bank ’ deposits by almost 2 : 1 , and have been increasing much more rapidly . |
| 21 | Her lips , which were almost as pale as the rest of her face , were cracked and papery . |
| 22 | Such an observation as that ‘ election riots were almost as old as the game laws : they too date from the Middle Ages and did not die out until the 1870's ’ does not help to settle the matter . |
| 23 | Around it some villagers were drinking their departed companion 's health , and by the looks of them were almost as senseless as the corpse they were mourning . |
| 24 | ‘ There wo n't be any over , ’ Cathy sighed , and she was right as far as the blinis went , though we all ate lamb in the end . |
| 25 | Rather , after that first heart-clenching moment when she saw him — so tall , so incredibly right in formal dress — she felt more wretched than ever : he was merely as courteous as the occasion demanded . |
| 26 | The microscope , improving radically in the early nineteenth century so that its images no longer had coloured fringes all around them , was perhaps as important as the telescope had been two centuries earlier . |
| 27 | Man was only as good as the tools he had available to impress his will on the environment , Heinz suggested . |
| 28 | He seemed totally relaxed , but Polly was suddenly as nervous as a kitten . |
| 29 | But perhaps she was already as hardened as the little trollop in his own house . |
| 30 | She eased down his pants to his ankles , and she saw that his cock was already as stiff as a poker . |