Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [prep] [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liz , like a pale convent girl too long mewed up , went wild in her first year , as she discovered the world of parties she had hitherto known only by reading and by hearsay : in those days , such was the imbalance between the sexes , women were much in demand as status symbols , as sleeping partners , as lovers , as party ballast , and Liz went out a great deal , her appearance improving dramatically as she did so . |
| 2 | He had a feeling that the Archbishop of Canterbury was now too powerful in the Church ; that he and the other bishops were more like sheep as they sat saying yes to what Canterbury suggested . |
| 3 | The Provost of Kilmarnock , Mr Mills , and Councillor Stirling were both in attendance as many willing volunteers braved their blisters to complete the course . |
| 4 | Finally , the rateable values were out of date as no revaluation had occurred since 1973 . |
| 5 | Not only had £250,000 worth of equipment fallen off the back of a submarine , but the torpedo firing system and the periscope were out of commission as well ! |
| 6 | The Scottish media were out in force as Sir David Smith , Principal of the University , and the Lord Provost of Edinburgh — both keen Amnesty supporters — welcomed Ruth Adler as the new Scottish Organiser . |
| 7 | They were nowhere in sight as I went through to the dining car , and Filmer seemed to have gone straight to his room , as there was a thread of light shining along the bottom of his door ; but Daffodil , I discovered , had after all not . |
| 8 | It was all on offer as scripts began arriving almost daily . |
| 9 | Moran 's high-strung nervousness , which was usually concealed by slow , deliberate movements , was all on show as he looked about him like an animal in unknown territory and tore open the envelope . |
| 10 | Despite the absence of Wagner 's name , it must have been sufficiently evident that the real parallel offered was not with opera as much , but with Wagner alone ; an insistence on traditional opera 's inherent inferiority and a brief allusion at the end of the lecture to its new rival " music drama " were enough . |
| 11 | The mulatto who had greeted them the previous morning was not in evidence as Benny passed through the lobby , for which she was grateful . |
| 12 | The shadow was still on Andrew as he replied . |
| 13 | The Fusion bonded process , of which Stoddards are the leaders in technology , was also on display as were the many ancillary processes required to make a finished carpet of quality . |
| 14 | The luckless Devine was also at fault as the visitors added a second with a penalty eight minutes from the end , the keeper needlessly fouling Totten after hacking the ball clear . |
| 15 | By 1963 de Gaulle was securely in power as French President and had settled his most pressing original problem , the colonial war in Algeria . |
| 16 | Privately , however , his mood was often near despair as he contemplated the financial and emotional chaos into which he was sinking . |
| 17 | She was often in tears as they travelled to the various venues , telling her husband that she simply could not face the crowds . |
| 18 | After a brief flurry of original stories at the beginning of the First World War , it was back to business as usual and , by the early 1920s , some 95 per cent of film stories were adapted from the stage or novels . |
| 19 | The parliament , designed to promote political and economic integration in the region , was formally established on Oct. 28 by Honduras , Guatemala , and El Salvador , but its credibility was immediately in question as neither Costa Rica nor Nicaragua had joined , for domestic constitutional reasons , and would remain as observers . |
| 20 | Pearson , the media group whose interests span The Financial Times to Madame Tussauds , was heavily in demand as half-year profits were considerably higher than the City had been expecting . |
| 21 | Also outside the FTSE , Adscene , the publishing and printing group , was heavily in demand as it reported a sparkling full-year performance . |
| 22 | The championship was never in doubt as Mansell reeled off victory after victory . |