Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , these were rarely as vehement or focused as those of their Phase 3 colleagues . ) |
| 2 | In the shops things were much as usual because wholesalers and suppliers were still using existing stocks . |
| 3 | Sparks flew from his eyes that were suddenly as black and threatening as thunder . |
| 4 | The encore was n't quite but the cheers were still as loud . |
| 5 | But , apart from that , the only flats she could see were still as small and impossibly expensive . |
| 6 | His eyes were still as still pools for a moment as he looked and then suddenly became like spikes . |
| 7 | The grown-ups were wrong as usual . |
| 8 | Such overcrowded conditions , together with my father 's low salary as a teacher , were probably as important factors as my own abilities in my being considered a suitable case for rescue . |
| 9 | In general , most of these commentaries had concluded that domestic rates were probably as fair and efficient a system as any . |
| 10 | Written by the University Distinguished Professor of History at Michigan State University author of a number of books on East-West relations it is delivered in a grindingly dull style : ‘ From painting , drawing , engraving , and imagery on china-ware , Americans were left with no doubt that the Chinese were culturally as well as physically different from Europeans . ’ |
| 11 | When one considers that the rents for the poorest housing were often as high , per square foot , as those of the wealthy middle class , his argument may seem less unconvincing ; but of course , the area per person regarded as model involved a greater number of square feet . |
| 12 | In fact , practically all I did was to go for solitary walks or pretend to read Virgil or Sophocles , whose two dead languages were now as meaningless to me as mental arithmetic , and as incapable of claiming my concentration . |
| 13 | Of course , er the er the hotels and such like , they were n't as expensive as they are today . |
| 14 | The dogs were there as usual , loitering in their pack . |
| 15 | The mouth was set grimly , he noticed , and the trousers were there as usual , white jeans now with a blue and white striped top , but there was the inevitable shirt hanging open over it , as if she was ashamed of anyone seeing those high , shapely breasts . |
| 16 | Even in the northern counties , Scottish raids were never as frequent or as deeply penetrating as they had been in Edward II 's reign , and although the inhabitants of those counties made the most of their plight in petitions for relief from taxation , the raids in the years after 1332 did little long-term damage to the region 's economy . |
| 17 | The powers of the region were never as far-reaching ( or set out in such detail ) as was the case in the English counties prior to the 1980 Act . |
| 18 | They were never as enthusiastic about ancient Greek rational philosophy as the Latin Western Church but felt its limitations acutely . |
| 19 | But she was presumably as capable of lying as Ursula . |
| 20 | Life had to go on and music was presumably as important to ordinary people trying to survive in Berlin as it was for the people who crowded into the National Gallery in London to hear Myra Hess 's lunchtime recitals . |
| 21 | It was perhaps as well that David Damiani had not come back . |
| 22 | It was perhaps as well John Hounsell had been given some forewarning . |
| 23 | The only place they did not appear to have penetrated was Wimbledon — which was perhaps as well , since it left Mr Malik as the sole source of information on the Malik family history . |
| 24 | Failing such superhuman qualities , however , there was only as usual ordinary observation and patience , and they both seemed inadequate and tame . |
| 25 | ‘ Would you say that Glynn was much as usual ? ’ |
| 26 | Archbishop Aethelberht is said not to have spared evil kings , and there must be a possibility that he was soon as disenchanted with Aethelred 's faction as he had been with Alhred 's . |
| 27 | ‘ And last night when you spoke to him he was just as usual ? ’ |
| 28 | He was early as usual . |
| 29 | Unlike Jane 's father , who was bilingual , his accent was always as broad , whether he was in Suffolk or Scotland . |
| 30 | The wind was still as vicious but the thunder had passed them by and the voice of the seas changed , waves breaking over the catamaran with less force . |