Example sentences of "were [adj] as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shuckskin ? — some foreign name — rather handsome , actually — that such things were possible as far as Japanese women were concerned . |
| 2 | Russia , Cuba , China , old man Cobbley and all , they were welcome as far as she was concerned . |
| 3 | Large ferns were present as early as the Upper Devonian and different genera as large or larger were significant components of forests during the Carboniferous to Cenozoic . |
| 4 | Well again er I would say conditions were were terrible as far as I was concerned , er a as far as tea breaks and what have you were concerned , you did n't have any what we would call official tea breaks , you simply took your chances and made a cup of tea and hid behind a bulkhead or whatever to drink this , er if you got caught by the foreman or the manager or somebody , then you were more or less bagged on the spot . |
| 5 | Sometimes , in fact very often , combined operations with our Investigation Department were inconclusive as far as material results were concerned , but a picture would be built up , or a missing piece in a jig-saw puzzle would be provided . |
| 6 | BCCI 's " major customers and shareholders " were aware as early as April 1990 , it said , of widespread fraud and manipulation of banking records within BCCI ; " the precise amount of such losses and fictitious profits [ over the period from 1977 to 1985 ] can not now be established " , but could have approached US$1,000 million . |