Example sentences of "as [adj] [conj] [vb pp] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commerce can be seen to be more closely regulated from the late seventh and eighth centuries onwards in the form of manufacturing and trading centres ( Hodges 1982a ) , although these certainly do not necessarily imply free trade ; in fact , quite the opposite , for the evidence from Saxon Southampton , Hamwic , indicates that the craftsman there were as tied and organised as the rural ‘ peasantry ’ . |
| 2 | The whole place seemed as empty and deserted as the Beast 's magic castle , though she was certainly no Beauty , Luce thought ruefully . |
| 3 | ‘ But more than this , his domination with every aspect of the club is such that the transition period after his departure could be as painful and prolonged as the one Leeds endured after Don Revie left in 1974 . ’ |
| 4 | It can be a pretty creepy place , too , but it 's not as isolated and overgrown as the glen , so at least it 's lighter . |
| 5 | At one time , the traffic had been heavy and lorries had thunderd past all night long , shaking the old house and its fellows to their Elizabethan and Georgian foundations , but with the coming of the by-pass , the traffic had eased considerably , and at night when the shops were shut and the shoppers gone home , the main street of Wellingham was as quiet and deserted as a stage before the curtain went up . |