Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] as [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For three years now , I 've carried this pack with me from place to place — a penance , a mortification , a burden that weighed as heavy as sin — thinking never again to open it , never again to be asked to take out my chisel or swing my mallet . |
| 2 | I stepped on a twig which made a noise that seemed as loud as thunder and I ran back across to my hiding place . |
| 3 | Coloured beads mingled with flecks of tobacco and grass on the surface of the table , and the air was draped with smoke that smelt as sweet as creosote . |
| 4 | Norway , with the third-highest tax burden in 1989 , had an annual average growth rate of 3.1 % in the period 1976–91 , nearly 25% above the OECD average of 2.5% per annum , and ranked as high as second in terms of growth rate . |
| 5 | Everywhere there is delicious coffee served very strong and black in little cups — it is either free or costs about 2p , and seems as common as water here . |
| 6 | He then closed it and felt as right as rain . |
| 7 | All those sublime thoughts , which tower above the clouds , and reach as high as Heaven itself , take their rise and footing here : in all that great extent wherein the mind wanders , in those remote speculations it may seem to be elevated with , it stirs not one jot beyond those ideas , which Sense or Reflection , have offered . |