Example sentences of "was as [adj] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet it was as impossible now as it had always been , and she groaned . |
| 2 | In the earlier Wind Quintet Schoenberg was still feeling his way towards a 12-note style that was as well-characterized thematically as it was well-balanced in form . |
| 3 | Phil Lowe was as dangerous here as he had been at Wembley . |
| 4 | I think the remedy was as useful psychologically as it was physically , and his crying subsided , although his lips and tongue were obviously still sore . |
| 5 | It was as poor here as anything he had experienced in the Borinage . |
| 6 | It was as familiar almost as my own , but I could n't pin a face to it . |
| 7 | He was as shocked here as he had been by the scenes he had witnessed in London 's East End . |
| 8 | Then , as now , the norm was that young married couples should live in a residence separate from those of their families of origin , and the three-generational household was as rare then as it is now . |
| 9 | For she had been wearing this dress the night she had first glimpsed the truth about her sister , a truth that was as unpalatable now as it had been then . |
| 10 | He told delegates he believed the case for strong trade unions was as compelling now as it was when the TUC first met 125 years ago , ‘ or ever has been in the history of our country . ’ |
| 11 | Consequently it was as hard then as it is now to separate our various individual contributions . |
| 12 | And Coleby was as hampered now as he had been in Emor by his lack of imagination : get him away from a straightforward discussion of bricks , mortar and money , and the man was lost ; give him a load of crap about the artistic temperament , and his sense of smell deserted him . |
| 13 | He was as vigorous physically as intellectually , and rowed for his college at Cambridge . |