Example sentences of "[adv] [was/were] as [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So were as many as a hundred or so other females and now he lies surrounded by them , on guard and ready to do battle with any other male that tries to raid his harem . |
| 2 | Mum , dad and the three children were sitting round the fire , cracking nuts and watching TV and the atmosphere inside was as clear as a spring dawn — not a puff of smoke to be seen . |
| 3 | Carew , writing at the beginning of the seventeenth century , had then thought four hours underground was as much as a tin miner could endure , but six- or eight-hour shifts overwhelmingly predominated by the eighteenth century . |
| 4 | The joint team established that the temperature of the electrons in the T-3 tokamak really was as high as the Soviet scientists estimated they were on the basis of their less-direct measurements . |
| 5 | It gets its name from the letter M which originally was as wide as the type size . |
| 6 | The reeds here were as high as a man , water gurgling in the creeks , running towards the sea . |
| 7 | Their goal , in the 46th minute , came from their first shot on target , and it was a real sickener for a Linfield defence who otherwise were as solid as a rock . |
| 8 | Well , the top one never was as good as the bottom one . |