Example sentences of "were as [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again all words in the sentences occurred in the RM1 lexicon and words in the collocations list were as heavily represented as possible . ’ |
| 2 | Only his eyes were as crisply defined as before : cold , clear and blue . |
| 3 | Her emotions were as confusingly mingled as the child 's expressions laid one over another . |
| 4 | Managers were as badly hit as shop floor workers and the full breakdown of redundancies was : |
| 5 | My earliest years were spent in a small , close-knit , Lanarkshire mining community in which class boundaries were as clearly drawn as the boundaries of the surrounding fields . |
| 6 | After losing seven goals in two games , Thistle were as resolutely organised as they had previously been chaotically lax . |
| 7 | Ironically , the protest had nothing to do with the South Africans who were as warmly received as they had been in Jamaica and Trinidad , greeted and feted by the government and watched by Prime Ministers Erskine Sandiford of Barbados and P.J. Patterson of Jamaica who came specially for the historic occasion , the first Test ever played between teams previously kept apart by the ideology of racial superiority . |
| 8 | It seemed like an excellent opportunity to put himself to the test , see if his reflexes were as finely honed as they had been in the old days . |
| 9 | Although there were few States where the Republicans were as deeply entrenched as the Democrats were in their southern strongholds , there were several where the need for large welfare state payments to win votes for a marginal government was low . |