Example sentences of "as deep [subord] the " in BNC.

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1 I had seen it when I had taken a detour from Arequipa into the Colca , reputedly twice as deep as the Grand Canyon .
2 By the time her mother rose in an elegant flourish of Pucci and swept her towards the door in that ostentatiously motherly way she had , Jo was in a sulk as deep as the Pacific Trench .
3 The desire for joy lies deep within the human spirit , as deep as the soul 's quest for happiness .
4 Revell 's tactic has been to make the body four inches deep , to maximise the volume of air within the guitar ; the body is in fact almost as deep as the soundhole rosette is wide .
5 The whole inlet could n't have been more than fifty yards across , but to Maha it was at least a mile wide , as deep as the ocean , wet and cold .
6 The hammer carved through his eyebrow and opened up a cut as deep as the frontal bone it cracked .
7 When Roe took over at Coniston he inherited the old eighteenth century workings which had been taken down on the Bonsor Vein , in one place , at least , as deep as the old hand chiselled " stollen " Cobbler 's Level .
8 Integrity , combined with wariness , pride , and the kind of stoic endurance that accompanied an understanding of suffering , a loss of innocence that went as deep as the soul .
9 The recession has been only half as deep as the slump of 1979-81 , but it has now lasted ten quarters , against eight quarters then .
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