Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] as [adj] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pulling on navy shorts and a pale blue polo shirt over her white lace bra and pants , she made sure the cabin skylight was open as far as it would go , then gave her sleeping-bag a brisk shake and spread it out on the mattress to air . |
| 2 | And though the tiny window was open as wide as it could go , she could detect no passage of air . |
| 3 | Kylie never tires of telling interviewers that life at home at Camberwell High School was just as normal as it could possibly be . |
| 4 | I enjoyed the gnocchi in a friendly watering hole along the road , however , and the Elban wine was just as good as it had been 30 years ago . |
| 5 | But it seemed even that could do little more than dull the edges of the pain , and , when she woke up one morning with a painful hangover and realised the ache in her heart was just as strong as it had ever been , she swore she 'd never again attempt to deal with her sorrows that way . |
| 6 | All that was fine as far as it went , but it would often mean , as the 19th century wore on , that work associated directly with industrial processes tended to be looked down upon . |
| 7 | Several acquaintances and former workmates had seen the television broadcast and wanted to offer their sympathy and advice , which was generally as well-intentioned as it was useless . |
| 8 | Discerning Greeks like Thucydides ( i. 10 ) knew that the relative splendour of the physical remains of Sparta and Athens was no index of their real strengths : suppose , he says , that the city of Sparta were to become deserted , future generations would find it hard to believe that the place , an old-fashioned , higgledy-piggledy collection of villages , was really as powerful as it was represented to be ; whereas if the same were to happen to Athens , one would think that she was twice as powerful as she really was . |
| 9 | Moreover , so successful were the numerous methods for delaying marriage ( the mean age of which , by the early twentieth century was higher than at any other time in British history , 27 for men and 25 for women ) , that for the typical Edwardian the gap between leaving school and the full independence of marriage was twice as long as it is today . |
| 10 | It was , I did n't erm believe that the picture of constraint that was painted in appendix two was quite as bad as it looked . |
| 11 | So it should happen that Mr Kirkley was at home when the guests arrived and was able to add to his surprise and not a little amazement when his daughter 's friend was delivered at his door by Raggie Aggie , for Aggie had long been a known character , she and her hand-cart , and now the pony-driven flat-cart ; and of course the fact that she was almost as broad as it was . |
| 12 | The torrent here was almost as fearsome as it had been at the original crossing point , but not so deep . |
| 13 | This latter cloud rolled swiftly down towards St Pierre , hugging the ground , but extending upwards at the same time , so that it was almost as high as it was long . |