Example sentences of "were [adv] [vb pp] as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The keys to the Cathedral were widely distributed as far as I can make out . ’ |
| 2 | The difficult and often contradictory principles of this age-long argument were memorably expressed as early as Plato 's version of the Apology of Socrates and , with a different bearing , in his Republic . |
| 3 | To explain why they were not employed as frequently as they were amongst the middle class until the inter-war period involves consideration of the complicated relationship between the occupational characteristics of both husband and wife with their respective values and expectations and how they related to each other . |
| 4 | In 1972–3 full-time courses in the polytechnics began to offer computing studies as part of the normal curriculum and attempts were also made as early as 1969 to include a European language ; while the latter proved to be an irrelevance , the former has certainly not . |
| 5 | The Lebanese press had obligingly produced a comic version of McFarlane ; but the film versions of both Reagan and North were also set as early as November 1986 , and did not much change thereafter . |
| 6 | Children could leave school entirely at thirteen on possession of the ‘ labour certificate ’ , which required either a minimum attendance record or the passing of Standard VII , although it seems that the certificate was rarely if ever refused and 10 per cent of 10–15-year-old girls were fully employed as late as 1911 . |
| 7 | After ‘ most diligent discussion ’ convocation concluded that the process against the Despensers was erroneous , sinful ( sic ! ) and revocable ; on the king 's orders these conclusions were solemnly published as quickly as possible in each church in the land , together with an indulgence of forty days for those praying for the health of the king and the peace of the realm . |
| 8 | Potential inferences which were disconfirmed by a later statement were invariably rejected , and inferences which were neither confirmed nor disconfirmed were falsely identified as often as they had been in the neutral condition . |