Example sentences of "[adv] as [adv] as [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He handed her the double bladed paddle as she continued , ‘ I shall go down as far as Browns Mill , so could you possibly pick me up here about five thirty ? ’ |
| 2 | A firm conviction of the truth of all this , secure in the minds of the parents by the time the child is born , is the best insurance that the process will start with birth just as surely as does the process of feeding . |
| 3 | Total repression of conflict leads to anarchy just as surely as does total conflict' ( ibid. xii ) . |
| 4 | In France , the Communist Party appeals to reactionary working-class prejudices almost as strenuously as does Mr Le Pen . |
| 5 | Whales do n't fly , but they do swim , and swim about as efficiently as swallows fly . |
| 6 | They do not keep in the clamp quite as well as mangolds . |