Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] as [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every town and village , and most large estates , had natural or man-made ponds on which matches were arranged as often as the weather allowed . |
| 2 | A spokesman for gloucestershire county council says that BET 's bids for cleaning contracts were treated as fairly as other competitors , and not opened until two weeks after the sale of glostershire services to BET was concluded . |
| 3 | Inside , the tents were furnished as comfortably as possible : iron bedsteads and hot water were provided for Cook 's tourists . |
| 4 | They were rowing as fast as they could towards the ship ! |
| 5 | Outside the immaculately maintained and smartly guarded naval enclaves , where minds were drilled as thoroughly as bodies in uniformity and obedience , the privilege of royal society was granted on condition that it would be denied to all outsiders . |
| 6 | Other Coalition Liberals were disliked as warmly as Lloyd George , more for their present policies than for their past . |
| 7 | Despite the Geneva conference requirement that heavy weapons in the area be placed under UN supervision from Sept. 12 [ see above ] , renewed artillery attacks were reported as early as Sept. 14 in Sarajevo ( which was suffering severe water and electricity shortages as supply lines were interrupted ) . |
| 8 | Economic controls were lifted as quickly as possible . |
| 9 | Indeed over his three and a half years in office new problems were added as quickly as others were solved or eased . |
| 10 | The cathedral was begun in the early thirteenth century and building continued till after 1300 , while a later choir and chapels were added as late as 1520 . |
| 11 | In particular it wanted to ensure that British nuclear thinking , planning , targeting and developments as a whole evolved along lines which were compatible with and were harnessed as far as possible to fit in with its own requirements . |
| 12 | It was easier for the Thatcherites to attack the welfare state successfully because its principles and institutions had not been adequately defended , as Dorothy Wedderburn and others were warning as early as 1964 ( Wedderburn , 1965 ) . |
| 13 | The action and control areas were carefully selected so that they were matched as far as possible in terms both of the number of referrals to the psychogeriatric service in the previous year , and of 1981 census data on the number of elderly people resident , particularly those aged 80 and over , the housing amenities of elderly people and the proportion of elderly people living alone ( see Table 2.1 ) . |
| 14 | The early canals were contour canals , winding about for miles in order to circumvent a hill ; but the later ones were made as straight as possible by means of cuttings and embankments . |
| 15 | The house and park were made as late as the 1870s . |
| 16 | Over the Easter weekend there were complaints that the toilets were closed as early as five p.m . |
| 17 | Oh , the patient looked a mess , but Kath had seen the enormous care that had gone into the alignment of each suture , the meticulous attention not only to the innumerable tiny little muscle fibres , nerves and blood vessels but to laughter lines and wrinkles to ensure that the tissues were realigned as closely as possible to their original position . |
| 18 | The evening was dropping like velvet and the lagoon was fading to a deep dusky richness in which the curving palms were reflected as cleanly as though the water were a dark-silvered looking-glass . |
| 19 | We were going as fast as we could . ’ |
| 20 | Things were going as badly as they could . |
| 21 | Although the French may have persuaded themselves that they were moving as fast as they could towards the ‘ perfection ’ of Vietnamese independence , it was perhaps indulgent of Acheson to have allowed himself to be persuaded as well . |
| 22 | And when the CEGB 's geologists were sent out to look at the geological substrata , they were harassed as heavily as the waste dumpers had been . |
| 23 | Small tissue blocks of Peyer 's patches and the surrounding mucosa at some distance were excised as soon as possible ( less than two hours ) after collection , and were fixed in cold ethanol ( 96% ) and then embedded in low melting paraffin wax . |
| 24 | Consequently Paige 's nerves were stretched as tight as a drum by the time they stopped for the night on the banks of one of the streams they had waded through . |
| 25 | By the end of the second century AD marble veneer and sculptures from Greece and Asia Minor were shipped as far as London . |
| 26 | The diary of a Middlesex parson , the Rev B.J. Armstrong , shows us what a devastating effect they were having as early as the 1830s . |
| 27 | The silk shawl she draped over her shoulders winter and summer was in place ; her mother of pearl brooch was at her neck as it should be and her shoes were shining as immaculately as ever . |
| 28 | The Stock Exchange of Singapore was incorporated in 1973 and electronic trading boards were introduced as early as 1982 . |
| 29 | Thousands were distributed as fast as they could be printed . |
| 30 | Usually , to please Father , I would also go on a quick visit to one of his shops and sometimes I wondered if they were doing as well as he pretended . |