Example sentences of "was [vb pp] as [adv] [subord] " 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| 3 | Or at least it was withdrawn as far as er railway engines were concerned . |
| 4 | It was formed as early as 1805 by the Marchese Tommaso degli Obizzi whose taste in ‘ primitives ’ was ahead of his time . |
| 5 | The meal was consumed as rapidly as was comfortable within 15 minutes or stopped when satiation occurred . |
| 6 | Apart from the Ukrainophile Kirillo-Methodian Society , which the regime thought particularly dangerous because of its obsessive concern for the unity of the empire , no circle of intellectuals was treated as harshly as the Petrashevtsy in the period between 1826 and 1848 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | Like many Oxford men , he belonged to the strong Socratic tradition in which dialogue was esteemed as highly as the written word . |
| 10 | Freight services ran until 1956 when all services ceased and the track was lifted as far as Bardney , although the Bardney-Lincoln portion remained . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The mud on the path was frozen as hard as baked clay . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The Romanesque cathedral was begun in 1052 , considerably rebuilt four hundred years later , and the Gothic tower was added as recently as 1850 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Although Cockermouth was leased as early as the thirteenth century , the family 's five Yorkshire manors were still in demesne in 1352 , three of these being leased by 1405 and all by 1416 , while their four Sussex manors were all leased between 1405 and 1416 . |
| 17 | But nothing was done as far as we know . |
| 18 | But the damage was done as far as my faith was concerned , which is probably why I went mad . |
| 19 | It was , however , of great importance that it was said as clearly as it was by the Council . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It was designed for heavy goods haulage and was built as late as 1960 . |
| 24 | The northern ( and earlier ) approach was by passes across the Ural mountains to the lower reaches of the river Obn and thence down the Ob Gulf by boat to the mouth of the Tazn which was ascended as far as a portage to the lower Yenisei ; from there they followed an eastward course up the Lower Tunguska river , crossing a portage to the Vilyui and so to the Lena . |
| 25 | Great care was taken to see that this work was disseminated as widely as possible . |
| 26 | That sits oddly with the fact that the board was reconstituted as recently as May 1990 and has been rationalised , streamlined and reinvigorated since that date . |
| 27 | In many instances they closely resemble Protestant churches built in America except that there stone was used as frequently as brick . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |