Example sentences of "[adj] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meek as milk ! |
| 2 | white paint , glossy as Brilliantine |
| 3 | Thus ‘ Somebody Knockin' ’ would have sat happily on ‘ Exile On Main Street ’ ( as would ‘ Cutting The Rug ’ and half the rest of the album ) , ‘ Time Gone By ’ has all the shambling grace of The Faces and everything is beef with tunes , guitars with feeling and amplifiers with revolvers and somehow it all sounds fresh as dew . |
| 4 | Mozart always sounded effortless , fresh as paint . |
| 5 | IRMA LA DOUCE promises to be just as vital and exciting as Century Theatre 's fabulous production of CABARET last year . |
| 6 | This did not mean that the play itself was not exciting as drama , but it meant that for Eliot , intent on his search for a vital relation between ritual and art , this play would not suffice . |
| 7 | Once it was felt not to be reliable as evidence for Jesus ' own history and teaching , however , most of what the psychological biographies had chiefly depended upon was removed along with it . |
| 8 | Slate , however good in quality , is not as reliable as mountain rhyolite and care should be exercised with all holds and protection placements . |
| 9 | On the other hand , global warming is likely to produce more precipitation over the icecaps , notably Antarctica 's , which would mean that water was being taken out of the oceans and stored as ice . |
| 10 | Remotely-sensed images are read from magnetic tapes and stored as disc files . |
| 11 | Before the first two helices had ever intertwined , biological information was very probably being copied and stored as RNA . |
| 12 | Leipzig church calls for calm as unity movement gathers strength . |
| 13 | and , his face calm as paper |
| 14 | The barman looked like he 'd had a long day 's journey into night , although the monocle and the silk smoking-jacket were as natty as ninepence . |
| 15 | I mean that 's , that 's about as entertaining as morris dancing |
| 16 | I saw their uncircumcised members as clear as day and shuddered . |
| 17 | Suddenly it 's light , clear as day ; we stop in front of a German 3″ mortar with a neat pile of HE bombs beside it . |
| 18 | Life 's folly clear as day . |
| 19 | It was as clear as day . |
| 20 | It was suddenly as clear as day . |
| 21 | I remember as clear as day , standing talking to Penny and I was calling their plumber , I 'll always remember that and er I was quite took back and Penny said ooh she 's been very good to me |
| 22 | The answers were clear as ash in a smouldering grate . |
| 23 | Her need of the steadying , mature containment of the Ryans is as clear as ice water , for there is much in her professional and personal past that has had to be relinquished . |
| 24 | I shivered for they were soulless , clear as ice . |
| 25 | Then on the fifth day , mid-morning , a pool of light as pale and clear as moonstone appeared on the horizon . |
| 26 | And a passing glimpse of a profile clear as bronze , and at the moment of passing as aloof and serene . |
| 27 | We paddle on seas the green of cat 's eyes , and seas as clear as mountain streams . |
| 28 | To him and to most of his European friends , it was as clear as daylight in the sky that a war was coming . |
| 29 | On a global level , client satisfaction is clear as client numbers are increasing , but still the CAB can not be sure that its own aims of offering accurate and impartial advice and information are fulfilled . |
| 30 | At the age of twenty-eight she had awakened one morning to the realisation , clear as dawn , that to hope for things did not necessarily bring them about , that there was no earthly reason why she should be happy , healthy and husbanded . |