Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] as [adv] as " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Other Coalition Liberals were disliked as warmly as Lloyd George , more for their present policies than for their past . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | Economic controls were lifted as quickly as possible . |
| 8 | Indeed over his three and a half years in office new problems were added as quickly as others were solved or eased . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The house and park were made as late as the 1870s . |
| 14 | Over the Easter weekend there were complaints that the toilets were closed as early as five p.m . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | By the end of the second century AD marble veneer and sculptures from Greece and Asia Minor were shipped as far as London . |
| 21 | The Stock Exchange of Singapore was incorporated in 1973 and electronic trading boards were introduced as early as 1982 . |
| 22 | Thousands were distributed as fast as they could be printed . |
| 23 | In fact his father-in-law had congratulated him on the perfectly splendid bit of crackling Hugh had in his arms in Chancery Lane , and naturally mum was the word , and his lips were sealed as far as Molly Coddle was concerned . |
| 24 | They were gone as suddenly as they had come . |
| 25 | In the UK the CAA , too , had been fully involved in every stage of the investigation , and so it was that all the necessary corrective measures were taken as far as the Boeing 707/300–400 series was concerned and the respective airworthiness authorities were fully informed . |
| 26 | They were started as early as 1461 , and the system is still being extended and improved today . |
| 27 | Its fine architecture decorated with giant banded pilasters have more than a hint of northern Mannerism in spite of the fact that they were finished as late as 1653 . |
| 28 | Her garments were removed as swiftly as if she 'd done it herself . |
| 29 | Urine specimens were processed as soon as possible after collection , both in the UK and the Gambia , and titratable acidity was determined by titration of each urine specimen to pH 7.4 . |
| 30 | The appeal of the private army and the provocation it offered to others were eliminated as easily as that . |