Example sentences of "was [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was secretly as excited about this new Polruan ship as anyone else . |
| 2 | It seemed that she was right as the Allies crossed the Rhine and swept through Germany . |
| 3 | It was rather as though Attlee or Macmillan had spent post-war autumn holidays at Saratoga Springs while eschewing any contact with the United Nations in New York . |
| 4 | Life had to go on and music was presumably as important to ordinary people trying to survive in Berlin as it was for the people who crowded into the National Gallery in London to hear Myra Hess 's lunchtime recitals . |
| 5 | But she was presumably as capable of lying as Ursula . |
| 6 | The mechanism was somewhat as follows ( I have used it since ) : to every charge brought against me , unjust though it be , from the bottom of my heart I shall answer yes . |
| 7 | Endill asked Mcduff , the only person in Nettles who had made friends with him , why this was so as they were throwing stones into the water from the dormitory window . |
| 8 | It was all as though I had a horrible secret I had to keep . ’ |
| 9 | They were content to lie there in the sun , and it was all as Cassie had wanted it to be . |
| 10 | As long as he was there , nothing was different , it was all as it had been when he came back on Tuesday , even the baby next door was moaning sleepily , and from the open window in the living-room he could hear a dog helping outside . |
| 11 | It was perhaps as well that David Damiani had not come back . |
| 12 | It was perhaps as well I could n't find the author — During stage four there was vibration from the front wheels and the drive-shafts were due for replacement . |
| 13 | It was perhaps as well John Hounsell had been given some forewarning . |
| 14 | The only place they did not appear to have penetrated was Wimbledon — which was perhaps as well , since it left Mr Malik as the sole source of information on the Malik family history . |
| 15 | In Burke 's view , which was orthodox in his time , this was entirely as it should be . |
| 16 | In the film , one of them , Dr Tony Kallend , appeared to explain that acid rain was nothing to be worried about as it was only as acid as Coca Cola . |
| 17 | Failing such superhuman qualities , however , there was only as usual ordinary observation and patience , and they both seemed inadequate and tame . |
| 18 | It was only as the girl grew older and she realized that her mother was simply mouthing words and had no intention whatsoever of carrying out her threat that she had begun to be able to relax and enjoy what was left of her childhood . |
| 19 | It was only as time , the weather , bad management , neglect and poverty took their toll that the dream turned sour . |
| 20 | Indeed , if Wright was hiding last night , it was only as camouflage and he emphatically answered Graham as early as the sixth minute . |
| 21 | It was only as I read your article that I realised my husband had n't been receiving an allowance for a dependant — me ! |
| 22 | She found it easy : to begin with , she found everything easy , as her memory for facts was remarkable , and it was only as she grew older that she began to notice in herself slight doubts about her ability to pursue higher physics and mathematics . |
| 23 | It was only as shore jet ceased to meet increasing demands that recourse was had to outcrops exposed on hillsides in the interior . |
| 24 | It was only as these were run down that recourse was made to mining . |
| 25 | If the decision was only as to the construction of a statutory provision that would explain why the case has received little attention in later cases … |
| 26 | Despite Alcuin 's plea to Aethelheard that he not be stripped of his pallium during his lifetime , it was only as bishop that Hygeberht attended the council of Chelsea in 801 ( CS 302 : S 158 ) and as abbot , that of Clofesho in 803 . |
| 27 | It was only as she was heading out into the road that she raised her eyes to the rear-view mirror . |
| 28 | Yet it was only as she was getting Emily ready for school next morning that she forced herself to come to a decision . |
| 29 | It was only as the conversation progressed that her function at G.W. Fashions was revealed . |
| 30 | It was only as his eyes closed and he drifted into sleep that Corbett realised the wine must have been lightly laced with a sleeping potion . |