Example sentences of "[vb pp] as [adv] as [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had vanished as silently as if it had been only a figment of her imagination . |
| 2 | The evening was dropping like velvet and the lagoon was fading to a deep dusky richness in which the curving palms were reflected as cleanly as though the water were a dark-silvered looking-glass . |
| 3 | And so it was as the " candidate " that he spoke to them , his accent so neutral by now that he could have come from anywhere and everywhere , his green broadcloth jacket still shabby but worn as jauntily as if it had been lined with ermine , his lean , dark face handsome enough to please the women and hard enough to reassure the men . |
| 4 | Her garments were removed as swiftly as if she 'd done it herself . |
| 5 | Thus , there is an extension in which region IV is extended as far as and is then followed by the time reverse of the entire solution . |