Example sentences of "as [adj] [subord] [art] [adj -est] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Mungo guessed that he was probably no more than fourteen , he seemed as old as the oldest adult . |
| 2 | A minute later her head was as high as the tallest tree in the wood , and she was looking at a sea of green leaves . |
| 3 | Roughly speaking , the country with the highest mortality rate in the 1940s had achieved a level comparable with that of England , but not as good as the lowest rate , in 1880 . |
| 4 | But she interrupted him softly , her words gentle and her spirit as powerful as the strongest wind . |
| 5 | We are not as accomplished as the best German orchestras , and this is not because we are bad string players , but simply because we 're a kind of pot pourri , we have all kinds of different string styles in England . |
| 6 | If there is enough snow to make a really big snowman , he may be as tall as Mr A. on the first day , but as he melts , he will shrink to be as tall as Miss B. and then as small as the smallest child , until he finally disappears . |