Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv] [adv] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 17 April 1764 , he finally got the go-ahead , providing of course that the new building was erected as economically as possible . |
| 2 | At the other end of the school , in the first year of the Halls , close links were established with the many primary schools ( some of them tiny ) which sent eleven-year-olds to the school , and the style of teaching for that first year was aligned as closely as possible with the more effective primary-school practices . |
| 3 | It was formed as early as 1805 by the Marchese Tommaso degli Obizzi whose taste in ‘ primitives ’ was ahead of his time . |
| 4 | Tied cottages , indeed , performed much the same function as the closed village in Victorian times , by enabling farmers to ensure that their expenditure on housing was limited as far as possible to guaranteeing their own labour requirements . |
| 5 | While the negotiability of international bills of exchange was recognized as early as 1603 , and of domestic bills less than a hundred years later , Chief Justice Holt refused to extend the principle to promissory notes , which ‘ are only an invention of the goldsmiths in Lombard Street , who had a mind to make a law to bind all those that did deal with them ’ . |
| 6 | Also , the Euboian cleruchy may actually and ironically have accelerated the revolt it was designed to prevent — because cleruchiea had a garrison function ; but if the cleruchy was installed as early as 450 it can not have been an immediate grievance . |
| 7 | The mud on the path was frozen as hard as baked clay . |
| 8 | Government accepted responsibility for keeping aggregate monetary demand at a level sufficient to ensure full employment or what was considered as far as possible to constitute full employment ( an unemployment rate of 1% or 2% was considered acceptable ) , and the annual Budget was to be used as the main instrument of economic policy . |
| 9 | The Romanesque cathedral was begun in 1052 , considerably rebuilt four hundred years later , and the Gothic tower was added as recently as 1850 . |
| 10 | Each child born with a defect was matched as closely as possible to a healthy infant born in the same hospital , at the same time . |
| 11 | The first serious attempt was made as early as 1869 by a young Swiss doctor , Johannes Friedrich Miescher ( 1844–1894 ) , whose uncle was Wilhelm His ( 1831–1904 ) , a most unusual anatomist who maintained the forward-looking proposition ‘ La solution finale du problème du développement tissulaire se trouve dans la chimie ’ ( The final solution of the problem of development of organs is to be found in chemistry ) . |
| 12 | The National Bank was built as early as 1830 and in JTR 's time there was a comparable expansion of its administrative function just as today with all branches of government represented within a hand 's throw of the Square . |
| 13 | The organ of London 's Royal Festival Hall was built as recently as 1954 , and although this fine instrument also brings no lack of sound spectacle , its most remarkable aspect is the wide lateral layout of the pipes , which means that the music can effectively emerge from various point sources . |
| 14 | It was designed for heavy goods haulage and was built as late as 1960 . |
| 15 | Great care was taken to see that this work was disseminated as widely as possible . |
| 16 | Reddy employed the same technique as Johansson to arrive at the least expensive energy — first estimating needs , then filling them through sources of power and energy efficiency , starting with the cheapest method , and when that was used as fully as possible , moving to the next cheapest . |
| 17 | There are rumours that the mill was used as recently as 1923 , although no records confirm this , and the mill race was filled in by 1958 . |
| 18 | In Cuba , where the first line was opened as early as 1837 , there were two main systems , British-owned in the west and American-owned in the east , by the end of the century . |
| 19 | It also reached out into the social and anthropological fields , and indeed a special journal linking it with linguistics was founded as early as 1859 . |
| 20 | It was founded as recently as 1984 , but within only three years the four young players had established an international reputation — a reputation which is now extraordinarily high . |
| 21 | To ensure that this was accomplished as effectively as possible there should be positive discrimination in favour of those who have special needs . |
| 22 | There had been no problem in having Eve brought up as a Catholic , since the Westwards had never wanted to know about her at all , and did n't care what faith she was raised in just as long as they never had to hear her name . |
| 23 | The south front was reconstructed as late as 1870 . |
| 24 | The famous lamb logo was introduced as early as 1949 . |
| 25 | There nevertheless remain some aspects of the scheme which demonstrate how difficult it seems to be for government to jettison the original ideas of the Beveridge Report ; for example , the Invalid Care Allowance ( ICA ) , which was introduced as recently as 1976 , is not payable to married women on the grounds that they are likely to be at home anyway and hence not in need of compensation for giving up paid work in order to care for a chronically sick person in their household ( Groves and Finch , 1983 ) ; the tax system ( which is not under detailed discussion here ) still assumes that all men need an additional allowance to help pay for the cost of ‘ keeping ’ a wife . |
| 26 | This guiding principle of participant observation — that the observer should be part of the setting which he or she is studying — was followed as closely as possible in the other communities . |
| 27 | Even the spread of increased educational opportunities to rural areas was opposed as late as 1944 on the grounds that farm workers would no longer ‘ know their place ’ . |
| 28 | The estate itself was defined as early as 1240 in a Sarum charter as Forestarehege . |
| 29 | The front door was slammed as loudly as possible , causing Sarah to wince . |
| 30 | In France , a step towards ending the dominance of the liturgical practices of the Church was taken as early as 1370 by King Charles V when he ordered all the bells in Paris to be regulated by the recently installed clock of the royal palace , designed by Heinrich von Wiek ( Henri de Vic ) , and to be rung at hourly intervals . |