Example sentences of "[adj] was as " in BNC.
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| 1 | His aim in this was as far as possible to translate changes of tones into changes of colour , feeling that only by this method could the full saturation and pressure of colour be realized . |
| 2 | This was as well ; for from 1980 , the BR Property Board began charging Travellers-Fare a percentage of turnover , as rental ; and if another retailer , caterer or not , could offer a better return , Travellers-Fare might find itself out . |
| 3 | This was as well , for even a single light raid would have reduced the flimsy huts to matchwood . |
| 4 | Even in the heart of supposedly the most advanced power , Britain , the issue of Irish national liberation re-emerged in the Easter Rising of 1916 ; for the British , this was as shocking in act of disloyalty in the midst of war as was the Bolshevik revolution for the Russian establishment . |
| 5 | At this stage in his life , this was as important to Nicholson as searching for the character he was playing . |
| 6 | Stirling expostulated that this was as bad as the ‘ bloody English at M.E.H.Q. ’ , whereupon the general enquired as to his nationality . |
| 7 | This was as elementary as his lesson to Hoomey : from the side of the bath he put his foot on the back of Jazz 's head as he came to the side , and stepped in , taking Jazz 's head with him , forcing in abrupt and most accomplished somersault . |
| 8 | This was as far as I could get by water . |
| 9 | This was as well for the 1930's came all too soon , with more depression , and in its wake an even more terrible war . |
| 10 | All this was as well , for we were beginning to need this information , and one special study has saved untold thousands of lives from deadly infection in swimming pools . |
| 11 | Tiller was a stickler for cleanliness , so she was told to be strict in supervising their washing ( for some this was as novel an experience as appearing on stage ) . |
| 12 | This was as true in England in early Norman times as in France ; and the importance of the feudal courts in this respect was only seriously challenged after the mid twelfth century , by the growing use of the right of appeal to a higher court and by the infiltration of the judges of the higher courts into the spheres of the feudal courts . |
| 13 | This was as much on the ancient principle of ‘ to the victor , the spoils ’ , as in any fear that the new occupant would carry his or her prejudices into the chair . |
| 14 | This was as true of Hunt as it was of Jones , Rosberg , Scheckter or Andretti , all great champions , but one-time champions . |
| 15 | By 1913 the United States was producing about one-third of the total manufacturing output of the whole world : this was as much as Great Britain , France and Germany together . |
| 16 | Almost all freeholders would have taken strong exception to the suggestion that their support had been purchased , and this was as true of those gentlemen who had recently obtained posts for themselves or their sons as it was for those who had been less fortunate . |
| 17 | This was as much by accident as by design . |
| 18 | It seemed this was as far as the couple had thought ; as though that would be it . |
| 19 | This was as much the true " meaning " of Oxford as was any other aspect of the programme of extension . |
| 20 | She would not go out , though she occasionally made a martyr of herself by pointing out that because of the price of baby-sitting , she could not afford to go out : this was as far as she went towards self-pity . |
| 21 | In 1971 some 13.8 per cent of households in English rural districts lacked one or more basic amenity , and in certain rural districts ( including some in Cornwall , Devon , Norfolk , Shropshire , Derbyshire and Durham ) , this was as high as 30 per cent . |
| 22 | This was as close as Paul Reichmann would come to answer the accusation . |
| 23 | This was as surprising as discovering blood from an unsuspected wound . |
| 24 | He left us after we had reached Luxembourg as this was as far as he went . |
| 25 | This was as true in philosophy as elsewhere . |
| 26 | They just r r rammed their way and you had an man the they had a man they tell me I I 've never seen one But erm this was as far as I can make out er by the They had a man standing by you see with a a spanner and er gave it a quarter turn every time it hammered the the drill sort of hit the rock , went into the and hammered . |
| 27 | But this was as close as they got , and a brilliant display from St Mary 's in the last 20 minutes , with Canavan adding on five points from frees , saw the Belfast team through . |
| 28 | This was as near as they dared to approach to avoid the risk of fire damage to the vehicles . |
| 29 | It sounded as if all this was as much about money as it was about religion . |
| 30 | Marx 's reaction to this was as much an attempt to counter the claim being made on behalf of the Prussian bureaucracy in the 1840s that it offered an alternative to constitutionalism , as it was a theoretical objection to Hegel 's interpretation of the state ( Liebich 1982 ) . |