Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [adv] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were birds singing , though not yet many , and apart from the boys ' voices the quiet was as old and deep as the land . |
| 2 | Any particle should be fished in the same way you fish with maggots or casters : feed a generous quantity into the swim initially , then little and often as the day wears on , the total quantity obviously varying according to how well the carp are feeding . |
| 3 | The chance that a random conglomeration of whale cells would swim , let alone swim as fast and efficiently as a whale actually does swim , is negligible . |
| 4 | Hence , class conflict is viewed as inevitable and indeed as the only major source of conflict in capitalist society . |
| 5 | No bread was eatable , for it was as cold and hard as a stone . ’ |
| 6 | The young man stood as stiff and straight as the church columns around him . |
| 7 | Because a regression session is longer than one involving simple hypnotherapy , the patient tends to relax more and more as the session goes on . |
| 8 | All this was indeed ‘ daring ’ stuff and few moviegoers in that 1914–16 period could have failed to appreciate that the messages were coming at them thick and fast as the motion-picture industry tried hard to prove that it was a mature social agency . |
| 9 | Honours came thick and fast as the world recognised his achievements . |
| 10 | We 'd keep them for a fortnight in those pigeon holes because most people claim stuff if they realize where they 'd left it within a day or two and then as the weeks went round we used to take stuff out of there and just lump it altogether , having duly labelled it up and erm record it and used to have tuppence an item if anybody lost anything . |