Example sentences of "as [adv] [vb pp] as the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One , who did not appear to be as badly scorched as the others , stood his ground , and eyed the Robemaker rather challengingly . |
| 2 | During the first half of the eighteenth century no other sect was as widely spread as the Quakers . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As always , the music is as carefully constructed as the words — Newman 's grasp of the basics of popular song has been amazingly consistent from his orchestrated debut in 1968 through the height of his popularity with the brilliant Little Criminals to this , the latest jewel in the crown of a quite exceptional body of work . |
| 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 | The problem is that Freud claims that his findings are as firmly established as the findings of the latter type of psychology , even though he only used the methods of verstehende psychology . |
| 7 | Self-representation in this way was never as systematically developed as the products of modern propaganda machines , but , as with the study of portraiture , it can be very revealing about the aspirations and claims of any regime , matters which are as interesting to the historian as the reality of what actually happened . |