Example sentences of "as [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What steps were taken to protect the employees of this firm following an explosion that took place some time ago and that could have killed as many as were killed this time ? |
| 2 | With the problems of site and design settled and only the question of finance outstanding , there seems little reason why the scheme should not proceed as Molesworth had hoped , but as was to happen many times later , the repercussions of major political events were now radically to affect the progress of the scheme . |
| 3 | The orang is not as endangered as was estimated 15 years ago , but it is threatened . |
| 4 | And the next point on that is that the amount of road safety in the base budget figures , the amount from various different areas whether it 's education , training , publicity , accident investigation or traffic calming , that amount of money is untouched so the same amount will be spent in the coming year a as was spent last year . |
| 5 | The waste , to be dumped in July , will contain twice as much alpha radioactivity ( mostly plutonium ) and three times as much beta/gamma activity as was dumped last summer . |