Example sentences of "[adv] deep as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was pretence , Cecilia knew , for no one could help feeling an embarrassment so deep as to amount to actual dumb fear in the face of such a performance . |
| 2 | She 'd have let him get in as deep as possible and then started the pressure … |
| 3 | This was followed by Mexico , which was in deep trouble , though not as deep as Bolivia . |
| 4 | Some of these studies showed that the wheel-ruts caused by umbilical hose set-ups were only half as deep as those produced by the equivalent tanker-based equipment . |
| 5 | I had seen it when I had taken a detour from Arequipa into the Colca , reputedly twice as deep as the Grand Canyon . |
| 6 | By the time her mother rose in an elegant flourish of Pucci and swept her towards the door in that ostentatiously motherly way she had , Jo was in a sulk as deep as the Pacific Trench . |
| 7 | The desire for joy lies deep within the human spirit , as deep as the soul 's quest for happiness . |
| 8 | The expanding vapour drives a turbo generator while the ammonia is reliquefied in a condenser by cold water pumped from as deep as 3,000 feet in a self-contained operation . |
| 9 | Long I have lingered by the banks of the Ness , looking on the town clinging to and rising above its banks ; often have I gone to the castle hill to trace the windings of the stream , which was ever smiling back or reflecting the sadder tones of the sky , and to gaze on the distant land of mountain and plain ; and I have also spent many hours in rapt admiration of the sylvan pictures that render the walk through the islands on the Ness a walk of walks : it yielded a joy as deep as that I received from the walks on Goat Island , within hearing and seeing of the rapid-flowing waters of Niagara . |
| 10 | At present , the top Carboniferous lies as deep as 4000 to 5000 m . |
| 11 | It had nothing to do with his empathy , for shield as deep as she would , until the whole World became flatly three-dimensional , the conviction was still there . |
| 12 | Revell 's tactic has been to make the body four inches deep , to maximise the volume of air within the guitar ; the body is in fact almost as deep as the soundhole rosette is wide . |
| 13 | Where the pointing needs renewing , the old pointing must be dug out as deep as possible as frost tends to lift shallow layers of cement . |
| 14 | The whole inlet could n't have been more than fifty yards across , but to Maha it was at least a mile wide , as deep as the ocean , wet and cold . |
| 15 | She now drew her chin into her chest and in a voice almost as deep as a man 's she said , ‘ And you dare to tell me to shut up , me ! who 's given her life to you . |
| 16 | One would think that monastic orderliness would be ingrained in one as deep as heart 's blood , by thirty-five , but it did not seem so , with me . |
| 17 | The roots of this war lie in Yugoslav history ( though not as deep as some claim ) , in the frailty of Tito 's state and in three distinct sorts of nationalism that sprouted as his odd form of communism collapsed . |
| 18 | These will have hatched from spawn laid far offshore , in water as deep as two hundred metres and , having spent their larval stage swimming free in the ocean , they spend the next two , sometimes three years inshore where they form an important part of the food for many sea-birds and also for seals and otters . |
| 19 | The slow movement , as I say , is outstanding , with Masur 's very straight , simple phrasing conveying an emotional intensity quite as deep as with a more overtly expressive style . |
| 20 | Work within your marks , leave a small lump in the middle at the front and go as deep as you feel is necessary . |
| 21 | My pride of race did n't go as deep as my fear of disapproval . |
| 22 | The hammer carved through his eyebrow and opened up a cut as deep as the frontal bone it cracked . |
| 23 | And Catherine has a heart as deep as mine ! ’ |
| 24 | When Roe took over at Coniston he inherited the old eighteenth century workings which had been taken down on the Bonsor Vein , in one place , at least , as deep as the old hand chiselled " stollen " Cobbler 's Level . |
| 25 | It has been suggested that sea-floor sediments as deep as 1000 metres may be disturbed . |
| 26 | Closed basins as deep as 135 feet were bitten out of the underlying basalt . |
| 27 | Its roots had burrowed as deep as its trunk was tall . |
| 28 | Integrity , combined with wariness , pride , and the kind of stoic endurance that accompanied an understanding of suffering , a loss of innocence that went as deep as the soul . |
| 29 | ‘ They are in a trap as deep as yours . ’ |
| 30 | The recession has been only half as deep as the slump of 1979-81 , but it has now lasted ten quarters , against eight quarters then . |